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The actor is suing for her £830,000 fee for a film that was never made. And her honest, haughty imperiousness deserves a standing ovationA lot of Eva Green’s success is down to her sense of unknowable mystique. This is a woman who steers clear of the celebrity circuit, who isn’t given to blurting her every waking thought on social media. Interviewers perennially struggle to get to her core. Since her breakthrough in Bertolucci’s The Dreamers almost two decades ago, Green has preferred to let her work speak on behalf of her. She is an enigma, an image on a screen upon which we can project our own feelings.Or at least she was, because loads of Eva Green’s WhatsApp messages have been read out in court, and hoo boy! Continue reading...

Beyond the superficial row, there is a debate to be had about progress, pitfalls, and a character who seems emblematic of her generationFollowing claims of misogyny, the debate about Tár – the film starring Cate Blachett as Lydia Tár, a famous, fictional and sexually predatory classical conductor – has been reframed in terms of power, not gender. But is that right?Yes and no. We can’t ignore that she is a woman of a particular generation. Thirty years younger than second-wave feminists (my generation) who came of age in the early 1970s, she is not identified as the much smaller group of third-wavers, yet she fits that age group. If we take Tár as emblematic of her generation, we may better understand her character and the costs she faced.Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, writer and social criticDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

Seven people were killed in a mass shooting at two locations in the coastal northern California city of Half Moon Bay. The suspect was later taken into custody after driving to a police parking lot, officials said. The shootings took place at a mushroom farm and a trucking firm on the outskirts of Half Moon Bay, about 30 miles south of San Francisco. It comes just two days after another mass shooting in which 11 people were killed in Monterey Park in Los Angeles county

A group of UFC fighters aligned with former Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro have found themselves in the spotlight following this month’s attack of congressOn 8 January 2023, a sea of people dressed in the yellow and green that symbolizes Brazil’s flag descended on Brasília, the nation’s capital, to demand that the military overturn the presidential election.Over the course of four hours, thousands of far-right supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro stormed all three branches of the country’s government – Congress, the Supreme Court, and the presidential palace – and wreaked havoc throughout the iconic modernist architecture. Continue reading...

Locals of the LA neighbourhood known as ‘the Chinese Beverly Hills’ have had their world shaken by the attack on a dance studio on SaturdayKevin Lou lives within a 3-mile radius of the two dance studios in east Los Angeles that came under attack on the eve of lunar new year.Growing up in the Chinese enclave of Monterey Park, he’d always felt safe, surrounded by people who looked like him and shared his immigration story. One of his fondest memories was dining with his mother at Hong Kong Cafe, a no-frills eatery that’s served Southern Chinese breakfast staples for decades. Continue reading...

The far-right Republican congresswoman was a fierce advocate of the House speaker during the 15-vote marathon for the officeKevin McCarthy reportedly said he would “never leave” Marjorie Taylor Greene, the far-right, conspiracy theorist Republican congresswoman from Georgia, after she backed him through a rightwing rebellion and 15 rounds of voting for the position of US House speaker.“I will never leave that woman,” McCarthy told a friend, according to the New York Times. “I will always take care of her.” Continue reading...

Two attacks in agricultural area near Half Moon Bay come within days of shootings in Monterey Park and Central ValleySeven people have been killed in an agricultural region of northern California, authorities said on Monday, the latest shootings to rattle the state in recent days.Two fatal shootings took place at a mushroom farm and a trucking firm on the outskirts of Half Moon Bay, a coastal community about 30 miles south of San Francisco, officials said. Continue reading...

The tragedy revived fears, anxiety and trauma of the last three years of the pandemic, which saw a surge in anti-Asian hateOn the evening of the lunar new year, Ny Nourn gathered with loved ones to eat lobster at a restaurant in Monterey Park, the southern California city known as America’s first suburban Chinatown.Her partner’s grandmother had died earlier that week, and the family came to the Taste of MP on Saturday to grieve and pay tribute to her: “She would want us to be together, and we wanted to honor her legacy and memory.” Nourn was comforted by the tables around her jam-packed with as many as six generations of families: “That’s what lunar new year is about – family and celebration.” Continue reading...

California officials name two of those killed, while friends and colleagues say much-loved ‘Mr Ma’ was among deadThe death toll in a mass shooting at a ballroom dance studio in California has risen to 11 people, after health officials said that one of the people wounded in the shooting had died.Authorities said the motive for what one lawmaker called “the worst mass shooting in Los Angeles county history” remains unknown. The 72-year-old shooter died by suicide the morning after the attack, authorities said, after being stopped by police in a nearby town. Law enforcement officials searched his home in Hemet, and found a rifle, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, and evidence that he was manufacturing homemade gun silencers. Continue reading...

Statement thanks teams braving dangerous conditions around Mount Baldy in search for actorThe family of Julian Sands have expressed their “heartfelt thanks” and praised the “heroic” efforts of those searching for the British actor, who went missing in southern California over a week ago.In a statement shared by the San Bernardino county sheriff’s office, the family thanked the authorities involved in efforts to find the 65-year-old actor. Continue reading...

Three suspects arrested following the incident at Starts Right Here, an educational program helping at-risk youth in IowaTwo students were killed on Monday and a teacher was injured in what police said was a targeted shooting at a school in Des Moines, Iowa, that is dedicated to helping at-risk youth. Three suspects were arrested.The shooting was at an educational program called Starts Right Here that is affiliated with the Des Moines school district. Continue reading...

Former Trump secretary of state claims US media depicted Washington Post columnist as ‘a Saudi Arabian Bob Woodward’The former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has dismissed the indignation prompted by the murder of Jamal Khashoggi as “faux outrage” – and cast doubt on whether the Washington Post columnist was a genuine journalist at all.In his new book, Pompeo says that Khashoggi – who was killed by Saudi agents in Istanbul in 2018 – was not “a Saudi Arabian Bob Woodward martyred for bravely criticising the Saudi royal family”. Continue reading...

Richard Barnett was found guilty of felony obstruction of official proceedings, civil disorder and theft of government propertyA jury has convicted the man who invaded the US Capitol on 6 January 2021, with a mob of extremist Donald Trump supporters and was pictured with his foot up on a desk in then House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office.Richard Barnett, from Gravette, Arkansas, was found guilty on all counts after the jury deliberated for about two hours on Monday, including felony obstruction of an official proceeding, civil disorder and theft of government property after he took an envelope from Pelosi’s desk. Continue reading...

Spokesman won’t say if ex-president knows Joseph ‘Skinny Joey’ Merlino, saying he ‘takes countless photos with people’A spokesperson for Donald Trump would not say if the former president knew a notorious Philadelphia mobster, after the two men were photographed together at a Trump-owned golf club earlier this month.“President Trump takes countless photos with people,” the spokesperson told the Philadelphia Inquirer, which obtained the picture of Trump and Joseph “Skinny Joey” Merlino standing together and making thumbs-up gestures. Continue reading...

Members of anti-government militia found guilty for roles in January 6 attack at the US CapitolFour members of the Oath Keepers anti-government militia were convicted on Monday of seditious conspiracy relating to the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump, after the second major trial accusing far-right extremists of plotting to forcibly keep the former US president in power.The verdict against Joseph Hackett of Sarasota, Florida, Roberto Minuta of Prosper, Texas, David Moerschel of Punta Gorda, Florida, and Edward Vallejo of Phoenix, Arizona, came a few weeks after a different jury convicted the group’s leader, Stewart Rhodes, in the mob’s attack that delayed the certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential election victory over Republican Trump. Continue reading...

Verdict comes after group’s founder and co-defendant were also convicted of seditious conspiracy in November

Disgraced British socialite gives interview from Florida prison in segment shown on Jeremy Kyle show on TalkTVThe disgraced British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has said, in a television interview from prison, she wished she had “never met” the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.Maxwell, 61, was sentenced to 20 years in a US prison for procuring underage girls for the American financier to sexually abuse. She maintains her innocence. Continue reading...

More than 100 laws targeting LGBTQ+ communities have been filed across the US as attacks persistSeveral anti-LGBTQ+ laws are being passed or proposed across the US as political attacks against the communities continue.In North Dakota, conservative lawmakers have introduced at least eight laws targeting LGBTQ+ communities, many of which target transgender people. Continue reading...

Charles McGonigal, 54, conspired to commit money laundering offences by receiving Oleg Deripaska money, prosecutors allegeA former top FBI counter-intelligence official conspired to commit money laundering offences and violated US sanctions by taking secret payments from the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska to investigate a rival, federal prosecutors said in an indictment on Monday.Charles McGonigal, 54, was also arrested on charges relating to his alleged acceptance of a $225,000 cash payment from a former foreign security officer, when he was special agent in charge for counter-intelligence at the FBI’s New York office. Continue reading...

Actors’ union say it was ‘not a failure of duty’ on performer’s part, but film’s production company is unlikely to face criminal chargesAfter the deadly accidental shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on a Santa Fe movie set in 2021, New Mexico prosecutors have announced impending manslaughter charges against the Rust actor and producer Alec Baldwin, who held the prop gun as it discharged what turned out to be live rounds.The film’s armorer who prepared the gun, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, will also be charged with involuntary manslaughter, and the production’s assistant director, David Halls, will plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of negligent use of a deadly weapon, according to the Santa Fe special prosecutor, Andrea Reeb. The exact chain of who handed the gun to whom is disputed by the trio. Continue reading...

Brandon Tsay, 26, says Huu Can Tran, 72, was ‘trying to do harm’ at second ballroom after killing 10 people nearbyA California dance hall worker who disarmed a shooter who had killed at least 10 people at another nearby ballroom just minutes before has described the encounter as harrowing.Brandon Tsay was working in the lobby of the Lai Lai Ballroom and Studio in Alhambra when Huu Can Tran, named by police as the gunman in Saturday night’s massacre at a dance hall in Monterey Park, entered and pointed a semi-automatic pistol at him. Continue reading...

The Tory chairman’s £5m tax ‘error’ shows how the other half lives it up, and the murkiness of politics run by and for the super-rich“Let me tell you about the very rich,” F Scott Fitzgerald once wrote. “They are different from you and me … Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are.” For that reason they will always be an awkward fit in the world of democratic politics.The past few days have provided ample reminders of what happens when the very rich take control. The stench emanating from this government reprises John Major’s last days of “sleaze”. But the sums of money back then look paltry compared to the extraordinary finances of the multimillionaires who now fill the Tory benches.Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnistDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

I have started giving away my books – sometimes even putting them in with the recycling. Why keep a novel that could delight someone else?I used to have, or rather hoard, a lot of books. Still do, I think, at least by the standards of the average home, but I’m doing my best to get rid. In the last couple of years I have given away hundreds. If the thought of this fills you with horror, then maybe look away from this next part, where I confess that sometimes I even put them in the recycling. Only the really objectionable ones, that I feel I am saving the reader from by taking them out of circulation.The big book purge began when I decided to go through the shelves and discard any book I was vaguely embarrassed to have in the house, for reasons of quality, subject matter, politics or author (look at your shelves and you probably have your own equivalents). Since then, I’ve been jettisoning them every few months with no regrets. Only twice have I have needed to look something up in a book I’ve thrown away, and rebought a cheap secondhand copy. Continue reading...

A California dance hall worker, who disarmed a shooter who had killed at least 10 people at another nearby ballroom just minutes before, has described the harrowing encounter. In an interview with ABC’s Good Morning America on Monday, Brandon Tsay, a coder who was working in the lobby of the Lai Lai Ballroom and Studio in Alhambra, described how he fought with Huu Can Tran for about a minute and a half before he was able to wrestle away the gun

Democratic congressman and ex-marine faces potential three-way race with newly declared independent and a Republican next yearThe Democratic congressman Ruben Gallego of Arizona announced on Monday that he will run for the Senate, teeing up a potential battle against incumbent Senator Kyrsten Sinema next year.Gallego, a marine combat veteran who has served in the House of Representatives since 2015, made the widely expected announcement in a campaign video that was filmed in his Phoenix area congressional district. Continue reading...

Peyton Hillis discharged after saving his children in a swimming accident in FloridaA former NFL player who almost died while rescuing his children from drowning after a swimming accident in Florida recently has been released from the hospital.The staff of Baptist hospital in Pensacola, Florida, had discharged Peyton Hillis – the ex-member of the Cleveland Browns – late last week, according to social media updates from his girlfriend, Angela Cole, and sister, Hayley Davis. Continue reading...

Thousands of people across the US took to the streets on the 50th anniversary of Roe v Wade, the supreme court decision that made abortion a constitutional right in 1973, to protest against the decision last year to strike it down. Protesters gathered at more that 200 Women's March events in 46 states.The vice-president, Kamala Harris, spoke at an event commemorating the landmark ruling, at which she said abortion rights across the US were under threat. Abortion has been banned or severely restricted in 14 states, since the conservative-leaning supreme court decided to overturn Roe v Wade

Motive for attack remains unclear as police identify gunman who killed at least 10 people at LA-area dance studioThe suspect in a deadly mass shooting at a southern California dance studio on Saturday night died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on Sunday morning.The motive for the attack, which left 10 people dead and at least 10 injured, is still under investigation, law enforcement officials said at a press briefing on Sunday evening. Continue reading...

The discussion about Biden’s re-election conflates five different questions. Let’s look at them one by oneReports that justice department investigators on Friday seized more than a half-dozen documents, some of them classified, from President Biden’s residence in Wilmington, Delaware – including documents from his time as a senator and others from his time as vice-president – have shaken Washington, worrying some Democrats about Biden’s viability as a candidate in 2024.The imminent departure of Ron Klain, Biden’s chief of staff, is also being read as a sign that Biden and his administration are turning a corner – reviving questions about whether the 80-year-old president should run again.Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley Continue reading...

Three victims tell Guardian about their ordeal as nearly 300 sue LA county over decades of sexual abuse by officersMaisha was 16 years old when the officer inside Los Angeles juvenile hall began to take interest in her. At first, she said, he was friendly, and she would run errands for him, including delivering paperwork to his office; then, when no one else was around, he started grabbing her.She tried to avoid being alone with him, but the groping and sexual assault escalated, she said, adding that he once assaulted her when she went to pick up her inhaler. Continue reading...

Suspected gunman who killed at least 10 people at California dance studio found dead. Plus, lab-grown meat set for takeoff in the USGood morning.The suspect in a deadly mass shooting at a southern California dance studio on Saturday night died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on Sunday morning. Ten people were killed and at least 10 others were taken to hospital after a gunman opened fire in a ballroom dance studio in a city close to Los Angeles.Who were the victims? The coroner’s office is “still in the process of identifying” the victims who were killed, the Los Angeles county sheriff, Robert Luna, said on Sunday. The ages of the victims appear to be in their 50s, 60s and “maybe even some beyond there”, Luna said.Do we know anything about the gun used? Two weapons have been identified so far, including a handgun with a high capacity magazine. The weapon recovered from the Alhambra location where the shooter was disarmed was described as a semiautomatic assault pistol with a high-capacity magazine attached, Luna said. He said it initially appeared that weapon would be illegal under California law.Why is Germany hesitating? There are many reasons, each individually understandable but which cumulatively underestimate the larger reality of Russian aggression. The worries include American caution, German history, reluctance to be Europe’s military leader, divisions in German public opinion, coalition government unity, a new defence minister and, above all, future relations with Russia.What else is happening? Here’s what we know on day 334 of the invasion. Continue reading...

The investigation looks at if Trump and his allies committed a crime in their efforts to overturn the 2020 electionA court hearing on Tuesday will mark one of the most significant developments in a Georgia investigation examining whether Donald Trump and allies committed a crime in their efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Here’s all you need to know about that hearing and what to expect next.What exactly is happening on Tuesday? Continue reading...

Progressives and ‘America first’ Republicans in Congress both want to re-examine US military budget – but for vastly different reasonsProgressives have recently found themselves in an unfamiliar position: in agreement with members of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus.Some of the latter caucus’s members have recently called for re-examining the amount of money spent by the US military, echoing demands that progressives have issued for years. Although progressives are clear-eyed about their ideological differences with “America first” Republicans on foreign policy, they encourage a renewed debate over the Pentagon’s budget. Continue reading...

Billionaire and founder of Microsoft tells Sydney audience it is ‘great to have Australia on board on climate’

Give them credit: America’s Team consistently find interesting ways to come up short in the postseason as their Super Bowl drought continuesFor the second straight year, the Dallas Cowboys’ season ended at the hands of the San Francisco 49ers after a botched final play. In 2022, Dak Prescott futilely ran out the clock rather than try a Hail Mary. This time around, their attempt to reach their first NFC Championship Game since 1995 ended in a blown trick play during which they couldn’t even get a lateral off. The 49ers beat the Cowboys 19-12 and there are already calls for Dallas head coach Mike McCarthy’s job.Would firing McCarthy be an overreaction? Possibly. However, this was Dallas’s seventh straight loss in the divisional round (and that’s before we get to the defeats in the wildcard round) and Cowboys fans have legitimate reasons to believe that the most valuable franchise in sports has established itself as a perennial underachiever. While McCarthy isn’t responsible for the vast majority of those playoff losses, he hasn’t exactly turned the ship around either. Continue reading...

The world’s super-rich have amassed so much wealth since the pandemic that even a Tory minister can see something is amissYou may have forgotten by now, but there was a brief moment during the pandemic when hopes were raised for a new “roaring 20s”. The Yale sociology professor Nicholas Christakis predicted that as in the 1920s, after the 1918 Spanish flu, society would embrace indulgence, with a rise in “sexual licentiousness” as well as a “reverse of religiosity”. We were poised to emerge from lockdown randy and flush. We certainly weren’t supposed to plunge, as we have in Britain, right into political crises and strikes, have three prime ministers in as many months, and sit at home too skint to turn on the heating or socialise.But a roaring 20s is actually happening, just not for most of us. According to Oxfam’s annual inequality report, released to coincide with the World Economic Forum meetings in Davos, the richest 1% of people have captured nearly twice as much new wealth as the rest of the world combined since the pandemic. Their fortune soared by $26tn, increasing their share of new wealth from 50% to two-thirds. Continue reading...

During a decade on the continent, Uber has often cut drivers’ pay and added little value to local economies. Governments should admit it is not economic progress but imperial exploitationThis year will mark a decade of Uber’s operations in Africa. The ride-hailing service entered Johannesburg in August 2013 – one of its earliest forays outside the US – and now operates in dozens of cities across eight African countries.But if Uber plans to celebrate this milestone, it will do so under a cloud of controversy. Many of the ruthless practices highlighted in last year’s explosive leak, dubbed the Uber files, were honed in African markets in particular. The documents revealed how Uber forced its way into economies while sometimes ignoring local laws. Uber spokespeople have since claimed that the company culture has changed under new leadership. Continue reading...

Violence hits LA-area community, ending first in-person celebration since pandemic beganAs the sun settled on Sunday evening, the only reminders of lunar new year revelry were a few houses adorned with bright red and gold paper lanterns. Inside the Hong Kong grocery store, just a five-minute walk from what the Los Angeles county sheriff described as perhaps “one of the most heinous cases” in the county’s history, an uptempo remix of Auld Lang Syne played to mark the holiday.Nearly 12 hours earlier, 10 people were killed and at least 10 others hospitalized after a gunman opened fire in a ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park, a small majority-Asian American city near Los Angeles. Continue reading...

The suspect in a shooting that killed 10 people at a ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park, California, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The shooter was identified as 72-year-old Huu Can Tran. The motive for the attack is still under investigation.

At least 10 were killed at a Los Angeles-area dance hall, with the motive for the attack still unclearAt least 10 people have been killed in a shooting at a dance hall on Saturday night in a city close to Los Angeles, on the eve of the lunar new year.Here’s what we know, and what we still don’t know, about the deadliest US mass shooting in recent months. Continue reading...

Suspect in shooting at southern California dance studio identified as 72-year-old man

Deceased include five men and five women as police identify suspect as 72-year-old man who died of self-inflicted gunshotTen people were killed and at least 10 others hospitalized after a gunman opened fire in a ballroom dance studio on Saturday night in a city close to Los Angeles.The mass shooting, one of California’s worst in recent memory, happened hours after a lunar new year festival that attracted tens of thousands of revelers in Monterey Park, a majority-Asian American city. Continue reading...

Acquiring nuclear-powered submarines will bring a responsibility to strengthen non-proliferation in our region

More than 200 events in 46 states protest supreme court decision that struck down the federal right to an abortion in USIt’s 4.30pm in Washington DC. We’re closing this blog now, but you can read the Guardian’s story on the women’s march and reproductive rights issue today, here.Here’s where things stand:Although smaller compared to previous years, this year’s Women’s March still saw thousands take to the streets. Many showed up with creative signs in passionate protest for reproductive freedoms.Rachel O’Leary Carmona, the executive director of the Women’s March, addressed crowds in Madison, Wisconsin, which has been chosen by march organizers as this year’s rallying base. “We will not be distracted by the drama in DC. Instead we are sending a clear message to elected leaders and to our base – we are going to where the fight is, and that is at the state level,” organizers said.President Joe Biden urged Congress on Sunday to pass legislation that codifies reproductive rights offered by Roe. “Let me be clear: a woman’s right to choose is non-negotiable. I haven’t stopped fighting to protect women’s reproductive rights – and I never will. Now, it’s time for Congress to pass legislation codifying the protections of Roe,” he said.In Washington DC, organizers from the Black-led abolitionist group Harriet’s Wildest Dreams drowned out the sound of counter-protesters, chanting “Hey hey, ho ho, these racist bitches have got to go.” Speaking to the Guardian, 18-year old protestor Raven Hidalgo said, “It’s unfair men are taking away our rights over our own bodies.”In her address at Tallahassee, Florida, vice-president Kamala Harris reaffirmed the fight for reproductive rights across the country and announced a presidential memorandum issued by Biden. “Today, we are fighting back. I am pleased to announce that President Biden has issued a presidential memorandum. Members of our cabinet and our administration are now directed to identify barriers to access and recommend actions to make sure that doctors can legally prescribe, doctors can dispense and women can secure safe and effective medication,” she said.A small counter-protest of less than a dozen people stood outside Freedom Plaza steps in DC at noon today, chanting racist and sexist chants about slavery as thousands descended upon DC to march on the 50th anniversary of Roe being signed into law, half a year after the constitutional right was dismantled. Jessica Nowell, 19, from the anti-abortion group Students For Life, told the Guardian that she was upset by the counter-protest which she did not believe reflected the movement. “I don’t believe with the pro-choicers but this behavior is disgusting and it’s not the gospel. God loves us all,” she said. Continue reading...

Protesters mark 50 years since landmark decision that protected abortion rights nationwideThousands of protesters gathered across the United States to protest the end of the federal right to abortion – marching on the the 50th anniversary of the Roe v Wade supreme court decision that made abortion a constitutional right in 1973, but which was struck down last year.At more than 200 Women’s March events in 46 states, demonstrators condemned the court’s decision, which leaves it up to individual states to decide whether to protect, ban or restrict abortion rights. Since last year’s startling decision from the conservative-dominated bench, abortion has been banned or severely restricted in 14 states, after the ruling on 24 June. Continue reading...

Zients had worked at the White House before as the top official for coordinating the US response to the Covid-19 pandemicJoe Biden will name as his new chief of staff Jeff Zients, a former top official for coordinating the US response to the coronavirus pandemic, after it had emerged on Saturday that the US president’s current chief, Ron Klain, plans to step down, according to US media reports.Zients departed his pandemic-related White House role last April, but had been back since fall, assisting Klain ahead of and after November’s midterm elections, and will now take over the top job, the Washington Post reported on Sunday. Continue reading...

Former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein questions authenticity of infamous 2001 photograph during interview from Florida prisonGhislaine Maxwell has questioned the authenticity of a photograph that came to symbolise Virginia Giuffre’s sexual abuse allegations against Prince Andrew, amid reports the Duke of York is considering overturning his settlement.In a video interview from prison, Maxwell who appears in the infamous 2001 photograph alongside the then 17-year-old Giuffre as Andrew holds her semi-bare waist, said: “I don’t believe it’s real for a second.” Continue reading...