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September 2025
Man who appealed Pelicot rape conviction handed longer jail term (LINK) 9 October 2025
Trump said he "will have to take a look at" a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell after the US Supreme Court rejected her appeal: "Haven't heard the name in so long" (LINK) 6 October 2025
Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson's elder daughter Princess Beatrice has decided to step down from charity role with Outward Bound Trust after six years: at least 6 UK charities had cut ties with the Duchess of York. (LINK) 27 September 2025
— An email emerged in which Ferguson called Jeffrey Epstein a "steadfast, generous and supreme friend" and sought forgiveness for "letting him down".
Retired Soros financier Howard Rubin charged with sex-trafficking: Playboy models 'tortured' in sex dungeon in NYC penthouse (LINK) — ground.news: 87?? media reports (LINK) 26 September 2025
— The charges relate to a scheme spanning from at least 2009 to 2019, in which Rubin, 70, and his former assistant Jennifer Powers, 45, enlisted numerous women to participate in paid sexual encounters in New York. FBI Assistant Director Christopher Raia stated the defendants spent more than $1 million to finance a national trafficking network causing severe physical trauma and silencing victims with legal threats. Rubin and Powers face mandatory minimum sentences of 15 years if convicted.
Jeffrey Epstein threatened to destroy Duchess of York in 'Hannibal Lecter-like' call (LINK) 23 September 2025
— Spokesperson said it was understandable that the Duchess had subsequently fired off an email expressing regret at offending Epstein, given the menace of his threat to ruin her life and that of her family. "That call was chilling. It was about two minutes long. But it was a two-minute threat in a Hannibal Lecter-type voice. This was long before the Duke's life had been ruined by his association with Epstein." On 22 September she was dropped by 7 organizations she has represented and championed for years, including the British Heart Foundation, The Children's Literacy Charity and The Natasha Allergy Research Foundation. Julia's House, a children’s hospice in Dorset and Wiltshire, was the first to sever its association with her, ending six years of the Duchess’s patronage.
UN General Assembly: High-level week opens with celebration of women's empowerment (LINK) 23 September 2025
— Girls are far more likely to finish school today, than at any other time in history. The number of women in parliament has almost doubled and nearly 100 discriminatory laws have been reversed around the world in the past five years alone. But none of the gender equality Sustainable Development Goals are on track. Furthermore, 676 million women and girls now live under the shadow of deadly conflict, the highest recorded since the 1990s.
Conflict, aid cuts and equality backlash causing ‘stagnation and regression’ of women’s rights — UN — (LINK)
Police are warning of a new trend in Switzerland: paedophile vigilantism. Zurich police recently arrested 6 teenagers after they'd beaten up a middle-aged man. They'd lured the man to a park through social media, pretending to be a girl under 16 (LINK) 22 September 2025
Around two thousand anti-abortion protesters marched through Zurich-Oerlikon on Saturday, carrying crosses, singing hymns, and even pushing an oversized stroller. Dozens of counter-demonstrators tried to block the rally, setting off firecrackers and pushing containers into the road. Zurich police in full force intervened with water cannons and tear gas to keep the groups apart and reopen the streets (LINK) 20 September 2025
Pope Leo XIV confirmed Sunday his intent to include LGBTQ parishioners within the Catholic Church ahead of their planned Holy Year pilgrimage to Vatican City (LINK) 1 September 2025
UK anti-slavery commissioner launches investigation into 'pimping websites' (LINK) 30 August 2025
UK Repair Shop's Jay Blades charged with two counts of rape (LINK) 5 August 2025
Bill and Hillary Clinton subpoened in House committee's Epstein probe (LINK) 4 August 2025
FoxNews opinion: Hillary Clinton is finally paying dearly for dirty tricks that hurt Trump and American voters (LINK) 5 August 2025
Meidas+: Epstein/Maxwell victim Virginia Giuffre's family speaks out against leniency for Maxwell, FBI told to redact Trump's name from Epstein files, dismal employment figures "rigged", says Trump, who fires Commissioner of Labour Statistics: other experts protest (LINK) 1 August 2025
Ghislaine Maxwell, serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking, received limited immunity to testify about 100 in Epstein's network (LINK) — ground.news: 88 media reports, 83 original (LINK) 27 July 2025
Forensic analysis finds DOJ's Epstein death video was edited (LINK) — ground.news: 25 media reports (LINK) 11 July 2025
Fox News: U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi faces scrutiny over Jeffrey Epstein case comments as DOJ and FBI conclude inquiry and press secretary Leavitt addresses contradictions about client list. (LINK) 7 July 2025
— Bondi's remarks appeared to contradict a memo the DOJ and FBI released earlier in the day stating that their Epstein review was complete and that they had nothing further to share with the public about it. Bondi during a television interview was asked if the DOJ planned to release a "list of Epstein's clients." "It's sitting on my desk right now to review," Bondi said at the time. "That's been a directive by President Trump. I'm reviewing that."
Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide, did not have client list: DOJ memo — (LINK)
Music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs found not guilty of racketeering and sex trafficking, found guilty of transportation to engage in prostitution related to his ex-partner Casandra Ventura and another woman referred to as "Jane" (LINK) 2 July 2025
NPR: estimated 100,000 march in Budapest Pride event in defiance of Orbán party's ban (LINK) 28 June 2025
— Organizers called it the largest LGBTQ+ Pride event in Hungary's history. Authorities installed additional cameras throughout the city centre before the march, and were expected to use facial recognition tools to identify individuals who attend the banned event. According to the new law, being caught attending Pride could result in fines of up to 200,000 Hungarian forints ($586).
Trump fails to overturn $5m damages award to E Jean Carroll for defamation: US appeals court denies challenge after 2023 civil jury trial found Trump sexually abused Carroll then defamed her (LINK) 13 June 2025
Harvey Weinstein gets mistrial on rape charge after threats to jury member from others (LINK) 12 June 2025
— The 12-person jury in Weinstein's trial had found him guilty of one count of a criminal sexual act against former Project Runway assistant Miriam Haley, but not guilty of the other count of a criminal sexual act against former model Kaja Sokola. After the mistrial was declared, prosecutors said Thursday that they plan to retry Weinstein on the rape charge, related to aspiring actress Jessica Mann, and that *she is ready and willing and wants to retry this count." A July 2 hearing has been set on that charge. Jurors were sent home midday amid concerns about fighting and tensions in the jury room in their fifth day of deliberations.
FBI says jail video shows Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide (LINK) 30 May 2025
Trump signs "Take it Down Act," revenge porn bill backed by Melania Trump (LINK) 19 May 2025
— The law requires platforms to remove images and videos, including deepfakes generated by artificial intelligence, within 48 hours after a victim's request.
French film star Gérard Depardieu found guilty in 2021 sexual assault trial, given a suspended jail term of 18 months (LINK) 13 May 2025
— The judge said there was no reason to doubt the word of the two women victims, who had told the court how Depardieu had touched them on intimate parts of the body, using lewd language. He placed Depardieu on a list of sex offenders and ordered him to pay compensation of €1,000 (£840) each for "secondary victimisation", a recent innovation covering the additional suffering for the women from the trial itself.
Virginia Giuffre, who stood up for victims of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, dies by suicide, 41, at her farm in Western Australia (LINK) — 25 April 2025
— "In the end, the toll of abuse [was] so heavy that it became unbearable for Virginia to handle its weight." — (LINK)
Judge approves Harvey Weinstein's request to sleep at hospital during retrial: moved from Rikers Island jail to Manhattan hospital as he awaits rape and sexual assault retrial (LINK) — 18 April 2025
Judges say Equality Act definition excludes transgender women, after gender-critical campaigners' challenge — 16 April 2025 (LINK)
Russell Brand issues response to rape allegations, insists 'never was a rapist' — 4 April 2025 (LINK)
— "I was a drug addict, a sex addict, and an imbecile. But what I never was, was a rapist. I've never engaged in non-consensual activity."
— The charges, according to the Metropolitan Police, are related to four women between 1999 and 2005.
Gérard Depardieu trial finally gives France its #MeToo moment — 29 March 2025 (LINK)
Hundreds of LGBTQ+ New Yorkers and their allies gathered outside the Stonewall Inn to manifest physically what the Trump administration has sought to erase in government records: that transgender and queer people have demonstrated, protested, and occasionally fought in the streets throughout American history for their civil and human rights. — 14 February 2025 (LINK)
Meta now lets users say gay and trans people have 'mental illness'. — 7 January 2025 (LINK)
— In a notable shift, the company now says it allows "allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality and common non-serious usage of words like 'weird.'"
