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BI Spook Randy Glass met with Rajaa Gulum Abbas, a Pak­istani arms dealer (who said he was associated with Bin Laden and wanted nuclear weapons), at the Tribeca Grill in July of 1999 where he learned that the WTC would be "coming down soon." Tribeca Grill, owned by Robert DeNiro, was just north of the World Trade Cen­ter in 1999. Glass later told Date­line he believed Abbas was an ISI agent.
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On February 20, 2003, FBI, DEA and IRS agents removed material and documents from the Crazy Horse Too as part of a lengthy criminal investigation. As part of that investigation George Clooney, Robert De Niro, and Joe Pesci were interviewed. As a part of the plea bargain Rick Rizzolo was ordered to sell the Crazy Horse within one year. Oscar Goodman was one of Rizzolo's lawyers.

Oscar Baylin Goodman is an American mob lawyer. His most notorious client was reputed Chicago mobster Anthony "Tony the Ant" Spilotro, who was known to have a short and violent temper. In the semi-factual 1995 movie Casino, the character of Nicky Santoro was based on Spilotro and was portrayed by actor Joe Pesci. Goodman had a cameo appearance in the film as himself while defending "Ace Rothstein", a character closely based on Lefty Rosenthal and played by Robert De Niro.

Part of the same investigation - Operation G String - was Cheetas, a nightclub brand operating in Las Vegas and San Diego. The San Diego side "achieved notoriety for having been frequented by some of the September 11 hijackers." The Cheetah's club in San Diego is a full nude club. The Las Vegas side was founded in 1991 by Michael Galardi.

Also arrested in that investigation was an "arms dealer" named Charles Tappe.
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De Niro threatens to sue over prostitution investigation

The Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro has threatened to sue a French judge after he was questioned for several hours about an international prostitution racket.

The 54-year-old American was released from a Paris police station on Tuesday night after being held for nine hours and interviewed as a witness on a warrant from investigating magistrate Frederic N'Guyen.

The inquiry began a year ago after the arrest of soft porn magazine photographer Jean-Pierre Bourgeois and former model Annika Brumark.

They are suspected of being behind a ring supplying high-class prostitutes for the rich and famous.

Brumark and Bourgeois, who are facing charges of procurement, are alleged to have controlled around 40 women who went on liaisons with well-heeled businessmen in Paris as well as in Monaco, New York, London and United Arab Emirates.

The women were reportedly paid up to 20,000 francs ($2,060) plus travel expenses.

Mr De Niro's lawyer, Georges Kiejman, said he would be pressing charges against Mr N'Guyen.

He said his client had been willing to go voluntarily and he criticised the authorities for the way in which Mr De Niro was picked up and the length of time they held him.

Mr Kiejman, a former justice minister, said: "Instead of going through me the judge deemed it pleasant to send six or eight police officers to his hotel and to compel him to follow them in their car.
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London's News of the World says it has copies of sworn statements the actor made to French investigators who grilled him last week about his involvement with the working girls. In them, De Niro admits to having sex with British porn star Charmaine Sinclair, who is also being investigated for her part in the scandal.

De Niro reportedly said he slept with Sinclair ``four or five years ago'' in St. Tropez. But he denied that any money changed hands.

And how did the two meet? Oh, it was very classy. De Niro apparently saw Sinclair among several models splayed out in skin mags, and had nudie photographer Jean-Pierre Bourgeois, who has been charged with running the alleged prostitution ring, set him up.

``He said he could introduce them to me in a friendly way, without any notion of money,'' De Niro reportedly testified. ``It is possible that I chose one of these girls.''

This week, the star's spokesman, Stan Rosenfield, reminded the New York Daily News that De Niro ``is not a suspect'' in the ongoing investigation.
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Frederick N'Guyen Duc Quang the judge heading a vice probe has studied claims that Sly Stallone's ex-wife Brigitte Nielsen slept with a Saudi sheik for half a million pounds.

It was Al Ladki who told Judge N'Guyen that he had procured Nielsen for a Saudi prince obsessed with her statuesque proportions, it was claimed.

The 33-year-old ex-wife of Sylvester Stallone ferociously denied taking part in a 12-hour sex marathon at a hotel in the South of France. She was not taken to France for questioning.

Other key suspects in the investigation are former French president Francois Mitterrand's security chief Paul Barrill, accused of providing pounds 10,000-a-night call girls to members of the Saudi royal family visiting Paris.
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IT READS like the synopsis of a trashy airport novel: sex, movie stars, politicians, Arab princes, arms deals and the courageous investigation of an obstinate, incorruptible - and publicity-hungry - judge. But the evidence to be presented to a criminal court in Paris this week also has a disturbing side - or, rather, two disturbing sides.

The case uncovers the brutal methods used to snare young women - some as young as 15 - into a call-girl agency specialising in wealthy, high- profile clients. It also exposes attempts by the French government machine to block an investigation which might embarrass senior politicians and damage French interests abroad.

Six people are charged with the running of an international prostitution ring, whose call-girls entertained the actor Robert de Niro, the former tennis player, Wojtek Fibak, two senior (but unnamed) French politicians and several Gulf princes. The agency specialised in tricking, or trapping, star-struck teenage girls into selling their bodies with the promise of careers as models or actresses.

At one point, according to the report of the investigating judge, the agency became a kind of approved dealer in girls, operating with the connivance, if not the blessing, of the French foreign ministry and French secret services. By steering Middle East arms clients towards girls from a known, and closely watched, agency, there was thought to be a reduced risk of blackmail, or the leaking of secret negotiations.

The agency's downfall came soon after it expanded to the lucrative Gulf market in 1996, with the alleged help of a third accused, Nazihbdullatif al-Ladki, a Lebanese businessman. Mr Bourgeois, according to the indictment, travelled to Latvia to scout for more victims, but his activities were reported by a local model agency and the French vice squad was alerted.
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Clients are said to have included the actor, Robert De Niro, the former tennis star, Wojtek Fibak, the French film producer, Alain Sarde, the former Emir of Qatar, one of the brothers of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, and Christian Courtin, the head of Clarins, the large French cosmetics company.

The case is not yet over. The other alleged, principal organiser of the conspiracy, Annika Brumark, 50, a one-time Swedish beauty queen, will be tried in May when her lawyer has recovered from a road accident. Two of the clients of the agency - Fibak and Sarde - are still under investigation and may yet face charges of rape and assault.

Brumark, it is alleged, was the real brains behind the network, taking 40 per cent of all the money paid by the clients. Bourgeois, at first, took no money. His reward was to force the glamour-befuddled girls to have sex with him. Gradually, he too was sucked into treating what began as a vicious game into a money-spinner.

Nadia M. was 20 years old when she fell into the silken trap extended by Bourgeois in 1996. A pathetically thin French girl of Moroccan origin, she told the court that she was a shop assistant, living in a welfare hostel, when spotted by one of the photographer's friends. "I was a girl with no money, lost, defenceless," she said. "He promised me a career as a model - big hotels, money, the chance to meet famous people. Above all, he promised that I would get out of the hostel."

On their second meeting, she said, Bourgeois persuaded her to undress for photographs which would, he said, launch her to stardom. He also seduced her. A few days later, the photographer took her to the home of his "friend", the French movie producer, Alain Sarde (producer of Paparazzi). She said that Bourgeois told her: "If he wants to go to bed with you, do it. It'll be good for your career in the cinema." She had sex with Sarde and was given F1,500 (pounds 150).

Nadia said she was "presented" soon afterwards to Robert De Niro but nothing happened; she said she was urged by Bourgeois to have sex with Fibak, but refused. That summer, she was packed off to Saint Tropez, where she was told her career would finally take off. Instead, she said, she found herself on a yacht - with another girl - performing sexual acts with the Qatari millionaire, William Kazan.

Bourgeois, an unkempt man with lank grey hair, who stood in court with the help of a cane, denied the charges of proxenetisme, or pandering (prostitution, as such, is not illegal in France). All he had done, he said, was "present" a few girls to his friends. Challenged by the court president to say whether he knew that Nadia was prostituting herself, Bourgeois admitted: "With Sarde, yes. With Kazan, I only knew later."

A Swedish girl, Julia, 16 at the time, also said that she had been taken aboard Kazan's yacht for photo sessions, where she claimed, she was sexually attacked. Bourgeois said Julia had gone aboard the yacht willingly and made no complaint at the time. Girls would be persuaded to have lurid photographs taken to circulate to film companies and modelling agencies. Instead, the court was told, Bourgeois would send folders of the pictures, on approval, to potential clients. If the girls refused to play along, they were warned that the photos would be sent to their families.

Even after the victims had been persuaded to prostitute themselves, the fact that the clients were often celebrities from the cinematic and fashion world helped to preserve the fiction that the women were climbing the ladder of fame.

Almost half the girls questioned by police had been promised a job modelling for the Clarins cosmetics company. Several girls claimed to have been taken to the office of the head of the company, Christian Courtin. "Bourgeois told me not to wear any underwear, because the lines would show," said Magadelena O. "Courtin asked me to undress and then touched my thighs and buttocks. He promised me a job in his next advertising campaign."

Sarde, a respected figure in French cinema, admitted in a written statement read to the court, that Bourgeois had sent him 17 girls while he was casting for Paparazzi in 1996. He denied any knowledge of promises made to the girls that they might get a part in the movie. "Bourgeois took advantage of my name ... as far as I was concerned, all the girls he sent to my bachelor flat on the Avenue George V came as prostitutes. The proof was that they all left with the FF1,500 agreed with Bourgeois."

One of the other defendants, Nazihabdullatif al Ladki, was a Lebanese businessman and former private secretary to Prince Fawaz of Saudi Arabia, brother of King Fahd. He admitted dealing with Bourgeois over a period of six years, in which the photographer provided a stream of girls for his employer. "It's something quite natural among Arab princes to want pretty girls," Al Ladki told the court. "It wasn't pimping."

When he visited Paris, Prince Fawaz would organise elegant soirees for his wife at the Hotel Crillon or Hotel Royal Monceau. In the meantime, Bourgeois would send two or three girls around to the Prince's three-storey apartment on the Avenue Montaigne, off the Champs-Elysees. "If he liked the girls, (the prince) would give them FF10,000 (pounds 1,000) each," said Al Ladki. He would also give "presents" to Bourgeois, including FF50,000 on one occasion.

It has been suggested, in leaks from the magistrate's office, that the Bourgeois-Brumark operation became, briefly, a kind of state-approved broker, providing girls to assist French arms companies to sweeten their deals with Gulf clients. Since this kind of thing was bound to happen, the foreign ministry and security services reasoned, it was better that a "known" and closely watched call-girl service should be used. This reduced the risk of blackmail or "pillow leaks" of secret negotiations.

So why was such an apparently politically protected network prosecuted, when others are not? Paris, like London, has scores of alleged escort agencies. Part of the answer is obvious: the operation run by Bourgeois was a particularly nasty one of its kind. Most of the women provided were not fully consenting professional adults. Bourgeois and the three other defendants faced charges not just of pandering but "aggravated pandering".

Another part of the answer is that the case fell into the hands of one of a new breed of young, tenacious and publicity-conscious investigating magistrates, who have transformed the French judicial landscape during the past 10 years. A generation ago, a case with such political sensitivities might easily have become derailed long before it reached a French court: the wrong-doers would have been warned off, rather than prosecuted.

The investigating judge in this case, Frederic N'Guyen, seems to have taken a positive delight in ruffling the feathers of the rich, powerful and arrogant. He was able to resist the pressure from the centre-right government, in power until June last year, to bury the case. Once a Socialist- led government came to power, he was able to make more progress.

Even then, however, he was prevented by the public prosecutor's office from extending his inquiry to areas of political sensitivity, including the alleged use of prostitution in arms diplomacy. He was refused permission to pursue his investigation of the links between Bourgeois and a shadowy character called Paul Barril, who once ran the dirty tricks department in the Elysee Palace for Francois Mitterrand, and now runs his own security agency for Gulf clients.

N'Guyen was also ticked off by the public prosecutor's office - with some justice - for his highly publicised "arrest" of Robert De Niro in Paris, early this year. De Niro, who was never more than a witness in the case, admitted having sex with girls presented by Bourgeois, but denied paying for their services.

The whole affair has left the French legal system splattered with bad blood. N'Guyen's annoyance with what he sees as political interference by the parquet (the public prosecutor's office), was leaked to the French press. As a "punishment", part of his inquiries - the possible rape charges against Fibak and Sarde - were lopped off and given to a more docile investigating judge.

In an extraordinary summing up on Tuesday - even by the standards of baffling, French judicial mores - the duty public prosecutor, Pascal Le Fur, took even further revenge. He spent two hours attacking Judge N'Guyen, nominally his own colleague, before turning to his case against Bourgeois and the others. In an unprecedentedly savage public roasting, Judge N'Guyen - the man who first brought the whole affair to light - was accused by the state prosecution service of publicity seeking and "taking liberties with the law and penal procedure".

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