Former President Jacob Zuma’s name appears in newly released documents by the United States of America Justice Department in its latest tranche of the Epstein Files.
The DOJ has published over 3 million additional pages in responsive to the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which was signed into law by President Donald Trump last November.
The Trump administration ordered the Justice Department to release the files tied to criminal probes of Jeffrey Epstein, the late financier and convicted sex offender, who was friends with US President Donald Trump in the 1990s, in compliance with a transparency law passed by Congress last month.
A series of E-mails found in the massive tranche of documents makes reference to dinner arranged at London’s Ritz Hotel on March 5th 2010, while Zuma was on a state visit to the United Kingdom.
The Jacob Zuma Foundation has dismissed media reports into the revelations as speculative narrative building, and that it regarded the matter as closed.
An e-mail from a Mark Lloyd on March 4th 2010 invites someone named Vera to a small dinner hosted for then President Zuma, who is encouraged to attend to add some real glamour to the occasion.
Another e-mail then shows a response from someone who says she is honoured to accept the invitation, and describes herself as a Russian model who’s lived in London for two years.
An E-mail purportedly from Epstein to British diplomat Peter Mandelson on March 5th 2010, reads that Mark Lloyd was hosting Zuma the following day at the Ritz and that he had invited someone whose name was redacted but described as beautiful to attend.
A March 6th e-mail to Epstein, the day after the referenced dinner from Mark Lloyd describes Zuma as being a “more impressive character” than was expected, who displayed more gravitas and none of the macho bluster portrayed in the tabloid press.
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