It turns out the French didn’t just export champagne, existentialism, and an allergy to work-life balance; they also shipped us Nicolas Sarkozy, the pocket-sized president who now stands convicted of corruption like a cautionary bobble-head doll for the global political class. From Brasília to Beijing, the verdict handed down in Paris last year was greeted…
From the red-tiled roofs of Epstein’s Caribbean fantasy-island to the fluorescent chill of a Brooklyn federal courtroom, Ghislaine Maxwell’s résumé has taken a decidedly unglamorous turn. Once the cosmopolitan “fixer” who could get you an introduction to a prince, a president, or a particle-physicist-cum-pedophile, she now occupies a 10-by-12 cell in Tallahassee’s low-security satellite camp—an…
Dubai, that shimmering monument to indoor ski slopes and zero-percent income tax, has handed down a life sentence to 31-year-old British teacher Mia O’Brien for allegedly smuggling half a kilo of medical cannabis oil. The verdict, announced Sunday at the emirate’s Criminal Court of First Instance, has managed to unite everyone from Geneva bureaucrats to…
