❝fearless child, broken boy; tell me what it's like to burn.❞

ʚ aged up, botw! link x fem! reader ɞ

synopsis: when the kingdom goes to war, the goddess's chosen Hero is desperate to keep you safe. in his attempts to give you everything, you gradually became nothing.

genres: angst, romance. | set pre-calamity.

content warnings: slight spoilers (slight canon divergence)

reader specifications: reader is detailed to be wearing a body hugging silk dress (i had vivienne westwood's 'grace' dress in mind while writing that specific scene!). no pronouns were used but was written with a female reader in mind.

word count: 2.66k words.

―originally posted on @mydarling-iv, sep. 6, 2023

ʚ part i ɞ | ʚ masterlist ɞ

Two weeks, two cursed weeks that you lover was away in Gerudo, wasting the time away with the princess beside him and only when he does get home—to you—he is ripped away once more.

“A ball?” You inquire softly, having no energy of meeting Link’s eyes, exhaustion apparent with the ache embedded deeply in your bones.

“Come with me?” He blinks softly, his sky blue eyes reminding you of the times where he and you would nap beneath the shade a tree has to offer under a stunning cloudless sky.

Link sees your eyebrows furrow, “Are you sure? You wish to bring a common woman who’s a simple painter to a ball?”

A stab of hurt spreads throughout his chest and before he can answer your question, you speak. “With your achievements, Princess Zelda is more of a favorable person you should escort. 'Lest we want to sully your prestige, my love.” Your words drip with false indifference, hoping your lover will not notice.

He’s no fool, he sees the flurry of emotions pooling into your eyes and Link’s heart cracks. He’s endured war, massacring monsters and Hylians alike—stars, he even tolerates the unreasonable orders spewed from the king’s mouth and the princess’s unpleasant gaze and fleeting touches—just so he is worthy enough of you.

“No.” Link’s resolve strengthens itself as your eyes momentarily flicker to his, surprise oh so evident. “What kind of coward am I to settle for another when my heart belongs to you?” His words are firm, reassuring and you find your guard lowering.

You then melt against his sturdy body when he embraces you, and suddenly, you unfold like a love letter read in the dark, a secret that only moon and stars would know. “Promise?” Link allows his walls to drop momentarily for you.

“Promise,” His words are a whisper, pressed gently to the corner of your lip as Link looks into your eyes deeply. “I chose you and I’l choose you over and over. Without pause, without a doubt, in a heartbeat. I’ll keep choosing you.”

Tear well in your eyes before they roll down your cheeks. Your hand cups Link’s face and you see his eyes soften before you’re enveloping him with your arms as he too, reciprocates the hug by holding onto you even tighter.

“I love you.” His promise is burned into your skin with his lips, yet why does your heartache never seem cease?

┊ ੈ✩‧₊*°࿐ྂ。

Looking into the mirror, you see how the silk hugs your body and how the corset’s asymmetrical look enhances your shoulder and clavicle. The layered pearl necklace shines with a milky iridescence that creates a dreamy look.

But as you continue to stare at your in the mirror, you’re caught off guard by the woman who greets you. She held no twinkle in her eyes, they were dim and almost lifeless.

A knocks rasps you out of you reverie and you’re welcomed by the rare sight of Link’s smile and his eyes crinkling sweetly.

You smile softly, feeling a phantom ache in your heart as you take his hand, your mind drifting back to the tired woman in the mirror and before you know it, you’re off to the banquet hand in hand with the man you love.

┊ ੈ✩‧₊*°࿐ྂ。

You don’t know how to feel when the music starts and a hushed silence falls over the crowd of nobles and royals alike. You see Princess Zelda in the middle, seeming to wait for someone.

Eyes clashing against blue ones, you see hesitation flash in them before Link is turning away from you and everything suddenly clicks in place.

Your lover takes her hand, placing a kiss on the back of it and you feel like you’re intruding on something intimate. It’s a cold and unsettling feeling.

It’s almost invasive as you continue to watch the Princess and Link—your lover—dance perfectly, almost as if they’re puzzle pieces destined to fit.

Numbness has set in as the music reaches a crescendo, Zelda’s dress fluttering prettily as Link keeps his eyes on her. It’s odd, to be haunted by someone that is still alive. You muse, heart aching.

The music softens into the diminuendo and the claps entering your ears snap you out of your thoughts. Your eyes refocus and despite the signal of the dance ending, Princess Zelda and Link stay rooted in the middle.

Silence befalls the massive ballroom and anxiety prickles at the bottom of your stomach as you notice the look in the princess’s eyes—it's the very same look you also hold for the man standing in front of her.

“Thank you, Link. For everything you’ve done for Hyrule.. and for me. I -um,” The princess of Hyrule trails off, a pinkish hue coloring the apples of her cheeks as she gently holds your lover’s hand.

Your heart drops, an overwhelming wave of anxiety and despair washing over you as you have a horrible feeling of what is to happen next.

“I want you to be happy,” Zelda hums cheerily, a pretty smile adorning her face.

“And I would love for it to be with me.” Despair pools in your stomach, your eyes quickly fly to our lover’s face. His eyes are unreadable and he’s stiff as a board but Zelda nor the nobles crowding around them don’t seem to notice.

There’s this overwhelming ache in your chest, a severe melancholy wrapping so tightly around your heart, it snaps abruptly as your eyes continue to linger on Princess Zelda and Link.

Your eyes meet Link’s momentarily and you’re taken back to the moment where you looked in the mirror earlier, you remember the woman—you—who looked so defeated in the mirror.

Another stab of pain hits your heart and your mind clears itself of thoughts but one. I love him, but stars, I want him to stay away from me. You curse mentally as the pain intensifies, borderline burning as unshed tears sear your eyes.

A choked cry tumbles from your lips, tears blurring your vision as you abruptly turn away. You turn your back on the man you loved, taking the battered woman he’s turned you into with you.

┊ ੈ✩‧₊*°࿐ྂ。

Link’s blood runs cold at the Princess’s words, but despite the people surrounding him, he tears his eyes from the princess in front of him and looks to where you once stood but you’re no longer there.

Desperation tugs at his entire being, his soul aching for you as the ring hanging from his neck burns against his skin.

But alas, he forces himself to push down the urge to chase after you because if he were to leave and follow his heart—the being who his heart yearns for—the kingdom would stop at no means of having your head on a spike.

┊ ੈ✩‧₊*°࿐ྂ。

Stars, you were a fool.

You stayed despite his silence, despite his distance, despite how he treated you.

You stayed.

And the wounds inflicted by Link, the man that supposedly loved you, left scorched marks burned into your heart.

The wind widely flies by your face as you urge your steed faster, faster to a safe place, to home, and away from him.

A field of white baby’s breath enters your vision and your breath hitches as the dam breaks, tears freely rolling down your cheeks as you sobbed.

“I was robbed of my life. I could have been happy—I could have been alive but he took my heart and murdered it.” You screamed to the stars, the fire consuming your heart intensifying the pain you feel.

She pops into your mind, the woman before the capital, the woman before being engulfed by the fires of love Link allowed to consume her, the woman—you—before all of the forsaken heartache burnt you whole.

“Am I supposed to be grateful to have survived this?” You cried, stumbling from your horse and into the small cabin surrounded by baby’s breath, the very cabin you and Link once called home before your loves' downfall.

┊ ੈ✩‧₊*°࿐ྂ。

Stars, he was a fool.

A fool for leaving you alone, a fool for choosing duty-

A fool for letting you go.

A complete and utter fool.

Link feels his frustrations rise, his skin burning as he worries where you are.

You were gone, not a single trace of you in the mansion. Almost as if you had left the place untouched.

He curses under his breath, tears welling in Link’s ultramarine eyes yet none fall.

He must be strong, for the kingdom, for him, for you.

A field of white enters his view and the morning dew twinkles at the sunlight peeking from the horizon.

Link’s breath catches in his throat at the sight before him.

It’s the cabin where you both originally stayed in, shaped it into home, and allowed your love to flourish.

Home.

His heart aches and there’s a deep yearning in his chest, a yearning of wanting to go back to how things were.

He dismounts his steed and races for the door hoping to see the fire lit and you home yet he’s met with darkness and the cabin being untouched.

His heart seizes as he recalls of what you had said before and Link realizes that you missed home, you miss how everything was once before.

He too shares the sentiments but he realizes it too late, “Stars, how was I so blind?” He whispers as he travels through the cabin, making his way to the back porch.

Link opens the door as dawn breaks and his breath hitches, his heart skips a beat.

He feels like a young boy once more as he sets his cobalt blue eyes on your figure sitting in the gazebo.

The sight of you and the effect you have on him reminds him of the day you both confessed your feelings, bathed in sunlight and absolutely breath taking.

You’re painted in a golden glow, the silk against your body shining softly forcing Link’s heart to tighten.

Oh stars, he’s missed you so much, the yearning to have you in his arms growing stronger as the ring burns even more against his skin.

He’s quick to make his way towards you, his footsteps on the grass and moss covered step stones softening his already quiet steps.

Link’s heart soars as he’s eager to get to you as soon as possible and yet, it’s short lived as your tired gaze pierces his eyes. His heart sinks slightly as panic rushes through his veins as he comes to an abrupt stop in front of you.

“Link,” Your sweet voice is hoarse, tired and run dry, which forces a slight pang of hurt across his heart.

His heart suddenly drops as you speak the words with a painful finality, “I can no longer do this.”

┊ ੈ✩‧₊*°࿐ྂ。

You’re leaving, you’re slipping through his grasp and it destroys him. Link looks up to you, your eyes unreadable and it forces him to impulsively move. He yanks the ring attached to the necklace hooked around his neck.

He sees your eyes widen as you glimpse the golden ring in his hand, confusion evident in your eyes. But the pain is overwhelming in Link’s heart.

Link falls to his knees before you, begging for forgiveness as would a sinner pleading to the Goddess. And like the sinner he is, you recoil, denying him of his retribution and sending his heart into despair.

“This was not how I wanted you to find out, but my love, please listen to me.” He croaks in between cries, hands grasping the silk of your dress as he buries his tear stricken face into the tops of your thighs.

“You will never lose me. I will always be right here beside you. I’m all yours my love.” He whimpered, hand shakily putting the ring on your finger and the golden ring burns against your skin.

You shake you head softly, “Yet it never felt that way, Link. You whispered sweet nothings in my ear and you told me you loved me. I found myself believing your lies when it all struck me at once, I haven’t felt loved by you.”

His heart aches at the shakiness of your tone and his arms wrapped around your waist tightens even further as he buries his face further into you naval, seeking refuge while hoping to make you stay.

“You no longer love me, Link. And I you.” A chill wracks his entire body, his eyes snapping to yours quickly in disbelief.

No no no. Link internally screams. “You love me, and—“

Your eyes hardens and Link’s resolve weakens even further. Stars, what has he done? “Loved. I loved you, Link.”

His breath hitches and you close your eyes as a choke gasp leaves your former lover’s lips. His hand gently squeeze your hips, a motion you once found reassuring, now burned your skin.

“Love, you love me.” Link croaks out weakly, his body trembling against yours.

┊ ੈ✩‧₊*°࿐ྂ。

You stared at him, and no longer did your heart ache at the love you both held for each other, instead, your heart thumped slowly and numbly. Yet, you feel a spike of guilt as he had provided a roof over your head, food for you to eat and so much more.

As the last act of love you so generously bestow upon your former lover, you cup his face gently, his teary bluebell eyes meeting your tired ones. You don’t have the energy for feign a smile but your thumb is gentle against his cheeks, softly swiping away any stray tears of his.

You see how much love is in Link’s eyes, it’s practically overflowing, almost like an ocean capable of drowning you. Inhaling a shaky breath, you murmur, “The truth I learned here is, you had to leave because you’re you.”

“And the reason I loved you is because you’re you. And who you are is someone who leaves, Link. The Link I remember doesn’t exist here. He doesn’t exist in the courts, in our home, and in you.”

He’s speechless, his tongue feels heavy as lead as your emotions of sadness and vulnerability seep into your tone.

“But he did once exist and you left him with me. A presence to yearn for—a part of you who I so badly wished for to be beside me—who gradually became a ghost to haunt me.” Link sees a glimmer of regret in your eyes. “Despite it all, I loved him.”

You swallow thickly, a small yet feeble smile tugging at your lips weakly, and the coil of pain tied tightly around his heart tightens, leaving Link feeling weak and breathless.

“To this kingdom, to her, you’re someone who stays.” He feels fear creep in his heart, the blood in his veins turning ice cold as you gazed at him with a thousand yard stare completely devoid of the loving warmth you once held for him.

It all comes to him and shame envelopes his entire being. As he built his walls to protect himself —the Link he was once before entering the palace, the Link you once loved—he failed to realize that he also cast you out.

Even as he worked tirelessly to provide you what he convinced himself that would make you happy—prestige, wealth—he had turned a blind eye to how much he had neglected you.

In the process of wanting to make you safer—happier—Link ultimately traded your happiness for what he thought would be your happiness and as retribution, he himself brought the ruination of the love between you both.

He’s forced to come to the abrupt realization that he’s to be haunted for the rest of his life, haunted by what lived, died, and could’ve been between you and him.

The cord snaps and Link feels his heart burn, leaving marred and scorched scars embedded so deeply in his heart. Link looks to you, face a calm mien but his eyes are a dead giveaway of the despair he shamefully feels.

Link’s words are subdued and quiet almost as if he's mourning, “If I could have done it all over again, I would have loved you better. But I couldn’t have loved you anymore than I already do.”

Your eyes dimmed and Link dies inside, stars, he was supposed to protect the shine in your eyes—you—he was supposed to protect you but-

“Know that I loved you, Link, but know that it was not enough.”

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Epstein Was a Sex Offender. The Rich and Powerful Still Welcomed Him. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/13/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-new-york-elite.html

“I’m not a sexual predator, I’m an ‘offender,’ Mr. Epstein told The New York Post in 2011. “It’s the difference between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel.” LIAR 🤥 #LockHimUp

Jeffrey Epstein Was a Sex Offender. The Powerful Welcomed Him Anyway.

By Jodi Kantor, Mike McIntire and Vanessa Friedman | Published July 13, 2019 | New York Times | Posted July 13, 2019 |

A strange thing happened when Jeffrey Epstein came back to New York City after being branded a sex offender: His reputation appeared to rise.

In 2010, the year after he got out of a Florida prison, Katie Couric and George Stephanopoulos dined at his Manhattan mansion with a British royal. The next year, Mr. Epstein was photographed at a “billionaire’s dinner” attended by tech titans like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. A page popped up on Harvard University’s website lauding his accomplishments, and superlative-filled news releases described his lofty ambitions as he dedicated $10 million to charitable causes.

Powerful female friends served as social guarantors: Peggy Siegal, a gatekeeper for A-list events, included him in movie screenings, and Dr. Eva Andersson-Dubin, a champion of women’s health, maintained a friendship that some felt gave him credibility. Mr. Epstein put up a website showing Stephen Hawking and other luminaries at a science gathering he had organized.

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Over a decade ago, when Mr. Epstein was very publicly accused of sexually abusing girls as young as 14, he minimized the legal consequences with high-powered lawyers, monetary settlements that silenced complaints, and a plea deal that short-circuited an F.B.I. investigation and led to the resignation announcement on Friday of a Trump cabinet official who had overseen the case as a prosecutor. Socially, Mr. Epstein carried out a parallel effort, trying to preserve his reputation as a financier, philanthropist and thinker.

Some of the respect Mr. Epstein, 66, drew on was manufactured, the accomplishments recycled. The gathering with Dr. Hawking had taken place back in 2006. The positive online notices appeared to have been paid for by Mr. Epstein: A writer employed by his foundation churned out the news releases, and Drew Hendricks, the supposed author of a Forbes storycalling Mr. Epstein “one of the largest backers of cutting edge science,” conceded in an interview that he was given $600 to post the pre-written article under his own name. (Forbes removed the piece after The New York Times published its article.)

Though some institutions and prominent people, including Donald J. Trump, said they shunned him, Mr. Epstein’s tactics largely worked. Over the past week, as the scope of his alleged offenses, involving dozens of victims in the early 2000s, became clearer after a new indictment in New York, the story of Mr. Epstein and his social circles shows how some people were willing to welcome back — or at least give a pass to — a handsome rich man who had been convicted of a crime involving a minor.

Mr. Epstein’s social strategy proceeded from his legal one. The lenient agreement he reached with prosecutors — his plea involved one girl, a 17-year-old, and the crime was prostitution, which made it look like the teenager was in part to blame — gave others a reason to dismiss his wrongdoing, decide he had already paid his penalty or not question what had happened.

At the top of New York society, plenty of people have “weird chitchat attached to their name,” said Candace Bushnell, the “Sex and the City” writer. She said in an interview that she looked into rumors about Mr. Epstein for The New York Observer in 1994 but stopped reporting after she was thrown out of his townhouse and threatened.

For years to come, people brushed such stories aside. “You’d think, ‘It couldn’t possibly be true,’” she said.

A Renaissance Man

In March 2006, a year after allegations of sexual misconduct were first reported to the police in Palm Beach, Fla., Mr. Epstein underwrote the kind of elite event he prized.

It was a five-day gathering in the Caribbean of some of the world’s top scientists, including Dr. Hawking, to share ideas about gravity and cosmology, with scuba and catamaran excursions on the side. One evening, the participants had dinner on the beach at Mr. Epstein’s private island.

Some of the scientists noticed that Mr. Epstein “was always followed by a group of something like three or four young women,” as Alan Guth, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, put it in an email to The Times, but they did not probe further.

Over a decade later, after Mr. Epstein was released from the Palm Beach County jail, he employed a similar strategy. He surrounded himself with prestige and counted on others to look past what he had done.

“I’m not a sexual predator, I’m an ‘offender,’ Mr. Epstein told The New York Post in 2011. “It’s the difference between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel.”

Ms. Siegal recalled, “He said he’d served his time and assured me that he changed his ways.”

For someone purported to have vast resources at his disposal, Mr. Epstein’s early endeavors to improve his image were oddly unpolished. In 2010 he created the first of at least a half-dozen websites, with names like JeffreyEpsteinScience.com and JeffreyEpsteinEducation.com, dedicated to extolling his philanthropy and fashioning himself a patron of technology and medicine.

The websites looked amateurish, the photos of him meeting with top scientists dated to years before his time in prison, and the name of the Harvard professor who led a research center Mr. Epstein had funded, Martin A. Nowak, was often misspelled.

At the same time, Mr. Epstein launched a public-relations campaign composed of a blizzard of news releases, along with canned write-ups designed to resemble news stories. For the most part, the announcements, which circulated from 2012 to 2014, were recycled accounts of donations he had made in the early 2000s and did not reflect new charitable giving. The earliest releases listed Mr. Epstein’s personal contact information, though later ones had the name of a media consultant. Some of the ersatz news stories found their way onto sites like Forbes and The Huffington Post.

Of all the names Mr. Epstein dropped, perhaps the most frequent was Harvard’s.

Though Mr. Epstein never attended Harvard or even got a college degree, the university has been a recurring theme in his self-styled image as a Renaissance man of finance and science. He found Harvard’s doors open to him once he opened his wallet, with donations starting in the early 1990s that eventually totaled at least $7.5 million.

He took to wearing Harvard sweatshirts, gravitated to mingling with celebrity scientists like Stephen Jay Gould and Steven Pinker, and developed friendships with the former Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers and the law professor Alan Dershowitz, who later helped defend him. (In civil suits, Mr. Dershowitz has been accused of having sex with two of Mr. Epstein’s accusers; he has denied the allegations and accused their lawyers of malfeasance.) Mr. Epstein, a former math teacher, even popped up for lunchtime discussions among scientists at a Harvard cafeteria, Dr. Pinker said in an interview, adding, “He weighted his own opinions as much as scholarly literature.”

By 2014, a page appeared on the website for Harvard’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, the initiative Mr. Epstein had financed 11 years earlier with a $6.5 million donation (and a pledge of $23.5 million more that never came), featuring a studio portrait, his résumé and links to his websites.

“He is one of the largest supporters of individual scientists, including theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, Marvin Minsky, Seth Lloyd and Nobel Laureates Gerard ’t Hooft, David Gross and Frank Wilczek,” the Harvard bio said, in what appears to be an exaggerated claim.

A Harvard spokesman said he did not know who was responsible for the page, which has since been removed.

That same year, Mr. Epstein resurfaced at a prestigious science conference. Dr. Pinker, who sat at the same table as Mr. Epstein, said he was treated as an important donor to be wooed.

A Brand-New Start of It

Although he was often described as a billionaire, Mr. Epstein did not come close in his philanthropy to other superrich people. His charitable foundations rarely gave away more than $1 million a year during the 2000s, according to tax records, and much of it was money others had given him.

In 2015, a new foundation Mr. Epstein created, Gratitude America, received a $10 million infusion and started making donations. The source of the money is something of a mystery. Like his earlier giving, which was financed largely by $21 million in donations to his foundation from a close friend and business associate, the retail magnate Leslie H. Wexner, the 2015 money did not appear to have come from Mr. Epstein.

Tax records show the $10 million donation came from a limited liability company located at a 22-story building on Park Avenue in Manhattan that also houses the family foundation of Leon Black, a billionaire investor and chairman of the Museum of Modern Art. He has known Mr. Epstein for years. In 1999, Mr. Black gave $166,000 to another of Mr. Epstein’s charities, and Mr. Epstein once served on the board of Mr. Black’s own foundation. The two men also appear in photos at a 2007 meeting with scientists at Harvard.

It could not be determined whether Mr. Black was responsible for the $10 million donation. His representatives did not respond to requests for comment.

Dr. Eva Andersson-Dubin, founder of the Dubin Breast Center at Mount Sinai, gave Mr. Epstein another form of currency.

The physician, who served for many years as an in-house doctor of NBC, is a breast cancer survivor who used her experience as inspiration for a holistic treatment approach. A former model and Miss Sweden, she is the wife of Glenn Dubin, a founder of Highbridge Capital Management who is No. 1168 on the Forbes billionaires list. The two are known for their philanthropy, and in 2006 they bought Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s former apartment at 1040 Fifth Avenue, a symbol of their standing in the city.

Dr. Andersson-Dubin also has a long history with Mr. Epstein, and has remained loyal to him since the 1980s.

At that time, she was putting herself through medical school. She became his girlfriend and, with his encouragement, put modeling aside to focus on her studies. They remained close after she married in 1994. After Mr. Epstein’s release from jail, she continued to socialize with him; those in her circle were aware of their continued friendship.

Despite longstanding news reports about Mr. Epstein’s behavior, Dr. Andersson-Dubin said through a spokeswoman that she was shocked by the recent news. “She’s a very loyal friend and didn’t abandon him after 2008, but the frequency of their contact was less,” the spokeswoman said. The new allegations “are completely counter to the person she is familiar with.”

Their relationship went a long way toward dispersing the cloud around him, according to some observers. If Mr. Epstein had Dr. Andersson-Dubin’s friendship, it suggested to others that perhaps he should be given the benefit of the doubt.

Ms. Siegal, perhaps the city’s most prominent professional hostess, took a more active role, using her gate-keeping powers to usher Mr. Epstein, a friend, into screenings and events.

In an interview, she said that her relationship with Mr. Epstein was not a paid one: They had developed a rapport over the years, with him often quizzing her about films and other topics. “I was a kind of plugged-in girl around town who knew a lot of people,” she said. “And I think that’s what he wanted from me, a kind of social goings-on about New York.”

After he left prison, she had no trouble continuing the friendship. She knew other people who had served time and then resurrected their lives, she said. “The culture before #MeToo was — ‘You’ve done your time, now you’re forgiven.’”

At screenings, Mr. Epstein would shuffle in at the last minute, sit in the back, speak to no one and leave before the party, Ms. Siegal said. He had no ambitions for New York’s party circuit, she and others said, and preferred to entertain people in his own space.

But her invitations helped. In 2010, just after Mr. Epstein left prison, he attended a screening of “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.” Soon a flattering blind item appeared in The New York Post about how he was “greeted warmly by guests.”

“It was the first time he has been out in two years, but nobody blinked he was there,” an anonymous source told the newspaper.

A few months later, Ms. Siegal threw the dinner party at Mr. Epstein’s Upper East Side mansion for Prince Andrew, giving Ms. Couric, Mr. Stephanopoulos, Chelsea Handler and others a chance to speak to a member of the royal family a few months before the much-anticipated wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.

“It was just one of those strange nights,” Ms. Handler said in an interview. Ms. Siegal had not emphasized who was hosting, several guests recalled. “The invitation was positioned as, ‘Do you want to have dinner with Prince Andrew?’” Ms. Siegal said. Mr. Epstein did not speak much. Dr. Andersson-Dubin was there, but others said they barely knew who Mr. Epstein was or what he had been convicted of.

Two of the other guests have also been accused of sexual misconduct, then or since: the television host Charlie Rose and Woody Allen, who attended along with his wife, Soon-Yi Previn. (“So how did the two of you meet?” Ms. Handler recalled asking the couple.) Soon after, outraged headlines appeared about Prince Andrew’s associating with Mr. Epstein, a sex offender.

In a recent email, Mr. Stephanopoulos said he regretted attending. “That dinner was the first and last time I’ve seen him,” he said, referring to Mr. Epstein. “I should have done more due diligence. It was a mistake to go.”

After the #MeToo era dawned in 2017, others were starting to feel less comfortable with Mr. Epstein. The Miami Herald published an  investigation that spurred new interest in the case. Ms. Siegal began to distance herself. It was obvious that he was going to face renewed scrutiny, she said, but “he was in complete denial.”

Others echoed that description. Just three months ago, as federal prosecutors were closing in with new charges, Mr. Epstein had a conversation with R. Couri Hay, a publicist, about continuing to improve his reputation. Mr. Epstein asserted that what he was convicted of did not constitute pedophilia, said Mr. Hay, who declined to represent him.

The girls he had sex with were “tweens and teens,” Mr. Epstein told him.

Reporting was contributed by Jacob Bernstein, Dennis Overbye, Sarah Maslin Nir and Megan Twohey.

National Team Camp - Nov. 2018

INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 25, 2018 – Sixteen women are participating in the U.S. Women’s National Team’s November training camp, which begins today at EVO Athletics in Sarasota, Fla. The participants, who are attending along with their coaches, is a mixture of national team members and invited guests. Under the guidance of High-performance Team Coordinator Tom Forster, the camp’s goals include demonstrating new skills and any skills or connections that need assistance, with an emphasis on working on areas that cause problems and on upgrading for the future. In the camp’s plan sent to athletes and coaches, Forster emphasized this is an opportunity for athletes to ask for assistance with skills that may be challenging. 2019 has a number of international assignments, and the focus is on having athletes healthy for the new year. The roster for the camp, which wraps up on Nov. 28, is listed below. The 2018 U.S. World Championships Team was excused from camp. Athletes who are recovering from injuries were encouraged to heal and work on getting ready for 2019 rather than coming to camp. Seniors Shania Adams, Plain City, Ohio/Buckeye Gymnastics Sloane Blakely, Frisco, Texas/WOGA Jordan Chiles, Vancouver, Washington//Naydenov Gymnastics* Audrey Davis, Frisco, Texas/WOGA Shilese Jones, Westerville, Ohio/Future Gymnastics Academy* Maile O’Keefe, Las Vegas, Nevada/Salcianu Elite Gymnastics Trinity Thomas, York, Pennsylvania/Prestige* Juniors Skye Blakely, Frisco, Texas/WOGA* Jordan Bowers, Lincoln, Nebraska/Solid Rock Sophia Butler, Houston, Texas/Discover Kayla DiCello, Boyds, Md./Hill’s Gymnastics* Addison Fatta, Wrightsville, Pennsylvania/Prestige Sunisa Lee, St. Paul, Minn./Midwest Gymnastics Center* Lilly Lippeatt, Mason, Ohio/Cincinnati Gymnastics Konnor McClain, Cross Lanes, W.Va./Revolution* Lyden Saltness, Forest Lake, Minnesota/Midwest Gymnastics Center * designates national team member The working camp schedule included physical abilities, which had some changes to the testing for cast handstands and kip cast handstand. Conversations regarding changing trends on skills and routines will also be held with athletes and coaches. 

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Oct. 27, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. EDT

President Trump welcomed the Japanese prime minister at Mar-a-Lago, in front of a towering arrangement of roses. The two could have met in Washington, but Trump said his private club was a more comfortable alternative. “It is, indeed, the Southern White House,” Trump said, greeting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in front of the press in April 2018.

For Trump, there was another, hidden benefit. Money. At Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s company would get paid to host his summit.

In the next two days, as Trump and Abe talked about trade and North Korea, Trump’s Palm Beach, Fla., club billed the U.S. government $13,700 for guest rooms, $16,500 for food and wine and $6,000 for the roses and other floral arrangements.

Those 2018 payments, revealed here for the first time, are part of a long-running pattern whose scope has become clear only in recent months.

Since his first month in office, Trump has used his power to direct millions from U.S. taxpayers — and from his political supporters — into his own businesses. The Washington Post has sought to compile examples of this spending through open records requests and a lawsuit.

In all, he has received at least $8.1 million from these two sources since he took office, those documents and publicly available records show.

The president brought taxpayer money to his businesses simply by bringing himself. He’s visited his hotels and clubs more than 280 times now, making them a familiar backdrop for his presidency. And in doing so, he has turned those properties into magnets for GOP events, including glitzy fundraisers for his own reelection campaign, where big donors go to see and be seen.

In the case of the government, Trump’s visits turned it into a captive customer, newly revealed documents show. What the government needed from Trump’s properties, it had to buy from Trump’s company.

So the more he went, the more he got. Since 2017, Trump’s company has charged taxpayers for hotel rooms, ballrooms, cottages, rental houses, golf carts, votive candles, floating candles, candelabras, furniture moving, resort fees, decorative palm trees, strip steak, chocolate cake, breakfast buffets, $88 bottles of wine and $1,000 worth of liquor for White House aides. And water.

Since Trump took office, his company has been paid at least $2.5 million by the U.S. government, according to documents obtained by The Post.

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In addition, Trump’s campaign and fundraising committee paid $5.6 million to his companies since his inauguration in January 2017. Those payments — turning campaign donations into private revenue — continued even this year, as Trump fell behind in polls and his campaign ran short of money.

The Trump Organization is not prohibited from accepting the payments. But the payments did break a key promise from 2016: Trump’s pledge that he would “completely isolate” himself from his business once in office, and put his voters’ interests above his own. “If I win, I may never see my property — I may never see these places again,” Trump said on the campaign trail then. “Because I’m going to be working for you, I’m not going to have time to go play golf. Believe me.”

There is no official total of what Trump’s company has been paid by the government and Trump’s campaign since he took office. The company and the campaign have both declined to say and did not respond to questions for this story....Without an official accounting of these payments, The Post has sought to compile its own.....The result is a never-before-seen portrait of the presidency as a revenue stream.

While Trump was publicly donating his $400,000 annual presidential salary, he was privately using his power to bring his businesses far more than that.

Taxpayer payments

The payments from taxpayers to Mar-a-Lago started in Trump’s first full month on the job, February 2017. He was meeting Abe at the club. His aides would need rooms. According to federal policy, the most they could pay was $182. But Mar-a-Lago was not charging $182.

“[There’s] a five bedroom house that three of the senior staff are staying in at $2,600 per night,” State Department employee Michael Dobbs wrote his colleagues, in an email later released to the public. “The two other Senior staffers (Bannon and Walsh) are expected to be charged $546 for their rooms.”

Within the State Department, emails show, officials did not seem inclined to fight. Federal rules allowed them to pay up to three times the normal limit — $546, in this case — with authorization. And the White House had authorized it. (Months later, Mar-a-Lago lowered the rate it charged the State Department to $396.15 per night, and provided partial refunds for some of the earlier charges above that.)

Within the White House, one former official said, some officials grumbled about holding the events at Mar-a-Lago. The events required dozens of staffers and enormous logistics, which had to be shoehorned into a private club on a narrow island full of other, nosy, paying guests. And there were some ethics concerns about the president repeatedly visiting his own properties. “It’s a hell of a lot easier to do it at the White House, which is set up for it,” the former official said...

Foreign leaders also sought the prestige of visiting the president at his vacation home because they believed it showed a close bond with the United States, two former officials said.

Trump returned, two months later, with Chinese President Xi Jinping....And Mar-a-Lago’s bills only got bigger that time, according to State Department records newly obtained by The Post. Now, there were florist bills: When Trump visited with Xi Jinping of China in April 2017, the club had started charging for flowers, and $50 per palm for decorative palm trees.

That same weekend, a group of White House staffers gathered in a Mar-a-Lago bar adorned with a large portrait of Trump wearing tennis whites. They kicked out the bartender “so they could speak confidentially,” according to an email Mar-a-Lago’s catering director sent to the State Department later.

The group then helped themselves to the contents of the bar: 26 servings of Patron and Don Julio tequila, 22 Chopin vodkas, and 6 glasses of Woodford Reserve bourbon, documents show. The bill to the government: $1,005.60, including service charge. The State Department refused to pay, emails show. But ProPublica — which first revealed this bill — reported that the White House eventually did. (The White House has not responded to questions asking how much it has paid Trump’s clubs out of its own budget).

But the most expensive — and most famous — event of the weekend was the formal dinner for 30, where Trump informed Xi about U.S. missile strikes against Syria during dessert. “The most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you’ve ever seen,” Trump later said in an interview with Fox Business Network. Taxpayers likely paid for that: Mar-a-Lago charged $7,700 for that dinner, a charge that appears to have covered Trump’s food, as well.

A White House official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters, defended Trump, saying “the President has hosted near 100 head of state/government visits since 2017” and only a fraction were at his own properties. But, last year, Trump sought to award his own company a much bigger event: the massive Group of Seven summit, which Trump gave to his Doral golf club in Miami. That event would have brought hundreds of foreign and U.S. officials to that property. Trump reversed the decision days later, retreating under public pressure — and resistance from his own aides.

His visits brought another customer: The Secret Service.

When Trump visited Mar-a-Lago for two weeks at Christmas last year, for example, the club charged the Secret Service $32,400 for guest rooms.

In addition, Trump’s adult children have brought their father’s company another $260,000 in taxpayer revenue on their own, records show, by taking solo trips to Trump properties with their own Secret Service agents in tow.

And, in some cases, Trump’s properties even got paid on days when no Trumps were present at all. In Bedminster, N.J., for instance, Trump’s club has charged the Secret Service $17,000 per month to rent a cottage from May to November — even on days when the family is absent. That’s an unusually high rate for the area, but a former Trump administration official said they had to pay it — to be ready, if Trump suddenly decided to visit.

Defense Department records recently obtained by The Post show a similar pattern of $17,000 payments to Trump’s club in Bedminster in recent years. Pentagon officials declined to answer questions about whether they have a cottage there, too.

In the past, the Trump Organization has defended its actions with two arguments. One is that — even if it wanted to — it couldn’t do all this for free.

“Legally, by law, you have to charge the federal government something, otherwise you get into all sorts of gift laws,” Eric Trump told Fox News in February. Eric Trump has not specified what laws he is referring to.

Ethics experts said they were baffled by that claim, since the agencies that the Trump Organization is known to have charged the most — the departments of Homeland Security, State and Defense — all have policies allowing them to accept gifts under some circumstances.

The Trump Organization’s second argument has been that — though it must charge the government something — it charges only enough to cover its costs. “If my father travels, they stay at our properties for free. Meaning, like, cost for housekeeping,” Eric Trump told Yahoo Finance last year. “If they were to go to a hotel across the street, they’d be charging them $500 a night, whereas, you know we charge them like 50 bucks.”

Among the hundreds of transactions reviewed by The Post, there were about two dozen payments that came close to that description: On three occasions when Trump visited his hotel in Las Vegas, for instance, the Defense Department reported paying just $74.51 per night for rooms. The Defense Department declined to comment about those payments.

But, in cases where The Post could determine what room rate was charged, the Trump Organization mostly appeared to charge the maximum allowed under federal spending rules. Or more.

At Mar-a-Lago, the government was charged rates ranging from $396.15 to $650 per room, according to documents obtained by The Post and people who have seen other, unredacted receipts. The rate for the cottage at Bedminster worked out to $566 per night. Once, when Donald Trump Jr. stopped at the Trump hotel in Vancouver, the Secret Service was charged $611 per night for his agents’ rooms. The Trump Organization has not commented on these higher charges.

Michael Cohen, Trump’s longtime “fixer” and attorney, said he saw no sign of a discount in those rates. “That’s what anybody coming in would pay,” said Cohen, who worked at the Trump Organization through the beginning of Trump’s term. This year, he was released early from federal prison, after pleading guilty to campaign-finance violations and lying to Congress.

Campaign donors

The use of campaign donations to pay Trump’s businesses is not new: During the 2016 race, his campaign paid them about $12.5 million. But that time, Trump put in far more money than he got out, contributing $66 million to his own campaign.

In the 2020 campaign, he’s done the opposite. Trump has donated a mere $8,020 to his 2020 campaign as of Oct. 14, records show. But his campaign and affiliated fundraising committees paid at least $5.6 million out to his companies. The two committees spent nearly $1 million from Sept. 1 through Oct. 14, including $97,000 for lodging at Trump hotels and nearly $800,000 for catering and ballroom rentals, records show.

RNC and campaign officials have said Trump has never ordered them to visit his clubs — but it was understood that he is more likely to attend if an event is at one of his properties.

Paul Seamus Ryan, of the nonprofit group Common Cause, said it was legal for candidates to rent things from their own business — as long as they appeared to be paying market rates and not overcharging. But, Ryan said, he had never seen anyone do it at the scale Trump has.

Full Roster by Age Division

Seniors (8)
 Shania Adams, Plain City, Ohio/Future Gymnastics Academy
 Sloane Blakely, Frisco, Texas/WOGA Gymnastics
 Jordan Chiles, Vancouver, Wash./World Champions Centre
 Jaylene Gilstrap, McKinney, Texas/Metroplex Gymnastics
 Olivia Hollingsworth, Seabrook, Texas/World Champions Centre
 Emily Lee, Los Gatos, Calif./West Valley Gymnastics School 
Sunisa Lee, St. Paul, Minn./Midwest Gymnastics Center
 Victoria Nguyen, Sugar Land, Texas/Everest Gymnastics

Juniors (34)
 Olivia Ahern, Memphis, Tenn./River City Gymnastics Inc.
 Ciena Alipio, San Jose, Calif./West Valley Gymnastics School 
Love Birt, Camden, Del./First State Gymnastics
 Skye Blakely, Frisco, Texas/WOGA Gymnastics
 Charlotte Booth, Clermont, Fla./Brandy Johnson’s Global Gymnastics
 Sophia Butler, Houston, Texas/Discover Gymnastics Inc.
 Kailin Chio, Henderson, Nev./Gymcats Gymnastics
 Addison Fatta, Wrightsville, Pa./Prestige Gymnastics 
eMjae Frazier, Erial, N.J./Parkettes National Gymnastics Center
 Elizabeth Gantner, Indianapolis, Ind./Jaycie Phelps Athletic Center Karis German, Spring, Texas/World Champions Centre
 Emily Golden, Sarasota, Fla./EVO Gymnastics Mia Heather, San Francisco, Calif./San Mateo Gymnastics 
Levi Jung-Ruivivar, Woodland Hills, Calif./Paramount Elite Gymnastics
 Lauren Little, Mooresville, N.C./Everest Gymnastics
 Nola Matthews, Gilroy, Calif./Airborne Gymnastics Training Center Zoe Miller, Spring, Texas/World Champions Centre
 Sydney Morris, Bowie, Md./First State Gymnastics
 Annalise Newman-Achee, Brooklyn, N.Y./Chelsea Piers Gymnastics
 Sophie Parenti, Menlo Park, Calif./San Mateo Gymnastics
 Anya Pilgrim, Germantown, Md./Hill’s Gymnastics
 Ariel Posen, Manalapan, N.J./MG Elite
 Joscelyn Roberson, Texarkana, Texas/North East Texas Elite Gymnastics
 Sienna Robinson, Las Vegas, Nev./Browns Gymnastics Las Vegas
 Katelyn Rosen, Boerne, Texas/Mavericks Gymnastics 
Lyden Saltness, Forest Lake, Minn./Midwest Gymnastics Center
 Jamison Sears, Yorktown, Va./World Class Gymnastics 
Chavala Shepard, Bentonville, Ark./Hopes and Dreams Gymnastics 
Ava Siegfeldt, Hampton, Va./World Class Gymnastics
 Abigael Vides, Spring, Texas/World Champions Centre 
Eva Volpe, Pearland, Texas/Pearland Elite
 Mya Witte, Greenacres, Fla./Genie’s Gymnastics Jamie Wright, Toano, Va./World Class Gymnastics
 Ella Zirbes, Stillwater, Minn./Flips Gymnastics LLC

Field for 2018 GK U.S. Classic

As of July 15, 2018 Alphabetical by state; level included Arizona Jade Carey, Phoenix, Ariz./Arizona Sunrays, senior Arkansas Chavala Shepard, Bentonville, Ark./Hopes and Dreams Gymnastics, Hopes 12-13 California Ciena Alipio, San Jose, Calif./West Valley Gymnastics School, junior Carsyn Coleman, Anaheim Hills, Calif./Precision Gymnastics, Hopes 10-11 Claire Dean, Oakland, Calif./Head Over Heels, junior Levi Jung-Ruivivar, Woodland Hills, Calif./Paramount Elite Gymnastics, junior Emily Lee, Los Gatos, Calif./West Valley Gymnastics School, senior Myli Lew, Belmont, Calif./San Mateo Gymnastics, Hopes 10-11 Lillian Lewis, Dublin, Calif./San Mateo Gymnastics, junior Kaliya Lincoln, Mountain House, Calif./Airborne Gymnastics Training Center, junior Brenna Neault, Rancho Cucamonga, Calif./Precision Gymnastics, junior Rafaela O'Neill, San Jose, Calif./Airborne Gymnastics Training Center, Hopes 10-11 Autumn Reingold, North Hills, Calif./Gymnastics Olympica USA, Hopes 10-11 Ava San Jose, Northridge, Calif./Paramount Elite Gymnastics, Hopes 10-11 Ui Soma, Belmont, Calif./San Mateo Gymnastics, junior Tiana Sumanasekera, Pleasanton, Calif./San Mateo Gymnastics, Hopes 10-11 Mahleea Werline, Indio, Calif./Aftershock Gymnastics, Hopes 12-13 Madelyn Williams, Vacaville, Calif./San Mateo Gymnastics, senior Colorado CJ Keuneke, Denver, Colo./TIGAR, Hopes 12-13 Alyona Shchennikova, Evergreen, Colo./5280 Gymnastics, senior Delaware Love Birt, Camden, Del./First State Gymnastics, junior Morgan Hurd, Middletown, Del./First State Gymnastics, senior Florida Rayna Light, Brandon, Fla./Golden City Gymnastics, Hopes 12-13 Mya Witte, Greenacres, Fla./Genie's Gymnastics, Hopes 12-13 Kaela Yee, Miami, Fla./Leyva Gymnastics Academy, Hopes 10-11 Georgia Delaney Fisher, Flowery Branch, Ga./Georgia Elite Gymnastics, junior Ava Harper, Marietta, Ga./Georgia All-Stars Gymnastics, Hopes 12-13 Alonna Kratzer, Suwanee, Ga./Top Notch Training Center, junior Amber Lowe, Kennesaw, Ga./Everest Gymnastics, Hopes 12-13 Illinois Sydney Jelen, Algonquin, Ill./Legacy Elite Gymnastics LLC, Hopes 12-13 Indiana Elizabeth Gantner, Indianapolis, Ind./Jaycie Phelps Athletic Center, junior Iowa Adeline Kenlin, Iowa City, Iowa/IGN, senior Kansas Leanne Wong, Overland Park, Kansas/Great American Gymn. Express, junior Louisiana Ella Parker, West Monroe, La./North East Texas Elite Gymnastics, Hopes 10-11 Massachusetts Stephanie Berger, Groton, Mass./Brestyan's American Gymnastics, senior Lauren Pearl, Milford, Mass./Brestyan's American Gymnastics, junior Maryland Kayla Di Cello, Boyds, Md./Hill's Gymnastics, junior Madeleine Johnston, Boyds, Md./Hill's Gymnastics, senior Sydney Morris, Bowie, Md./First State Gymnastics, junior Minnesota Sunisa Lee, St. Paul, Minn./Midwest Gymnastics Center, junior Grace McCallum, Isanti, Minn./Twin City Twisters, senior Lily Pederson, White Bear Lake, Minn./Flips Gymnastics LLC, Hopes 12-13 Lyden Saltness, Forest Lake, Minn./Midwest Gymnastics Center, junior Tori Tatum, Chanhassen, Minn./Twin City Twisters, junior Ella Zirbes, Stillwater, Minn./Flips Gymnastics LLC, Hopes 12-13 Mississippi Savannah Goveia, Diamondhead, Miss./Everest Gymnastics, Hopes 12-13 Missouri Kara Eaker, Grain Valley, Mo./Great American Gymnastics Express, senior Aleah Finnegan, Lee's Summit, Mo./Great American Gymnastics Express, junior Alexis Jeffrey, Warrensburg, Mo./Great American Gymnastics Express, junior JaFree Scott, Independence, Mo./Great American Gymnastics Express, junior Clara Wallace, Lee's Summit, Mo./Xtreme Gymnastics and Trampoline, Hopes 12-13 Nebraska Jordan Bowers, Lincoln, Neb./Solid Rock Gymnastics, junior Nevada Kailin Chio, Henderson, Nev./Gymcats Gymnastics, junior Trista Goodman, Henderson, Nev./Salcianu Elite Academy of Gymnastics, junior Selena Harris, Henderson, Nev./Gymcats Gymnastics, junior New Jersey Kylee Bromley, Runnemede, N.J./First State Gymnastics, Hopes 10-11 Olivia Dunne, Hillsdale, N.J./Eastern National Academy of Paramus, senior eMjae Frazier, Erial, N.J./Parkettes National Gymnastics Center, junior Zoe Gravier, Holmdel, N.J./MG Elite, junior Riley McCusker, Brielle, N.J./MG Elite, senior Camryn Nelson, Marlton, N.J./Will-Moor School of Gymnastics, Hopes 10-11 Hezly Rivera, North Bergen, N.J./Eastern National Academy of Paramus, Hopes 10-11 New York Skylar Draser, Huntington Station, N.Y./Infiniti Elite Gymnastics, Hopes 12-13 Olivia Greaves, Staten Island, N.Y./MG Elite, junior North Carolina Gabbie Gallentine, Iron Station, N.C./Everest Gymnastics, junior Lauren Little, Mooresville, N.C./Everest Gymnastics, junior Victoria Smirnov, Hickory, N.C./Shooting Stars Gymnastics, junior Calvary Swaney, Gastonia, N.C./First in Flight, junior Ohio Shania Adams, Plain City, Ohio/Buckeye Gymnastics, senior Shilese Jones, Westerville, Ohio/Future Gymnastics Academy, senior Lilly Lippeatt, Mason, Ohio/Cincinnati Gymnastics, junior Pennsylvania Addison Fatta, Wrightsville, Pa./Prestige Gymnastics, junior Lucy Tobia, Schnecksville, Pa./Parkettes National Gymnastics Center, Hopes 10-11 South Carolina Maeve Hahn, Lake Wylie, S.C./First in Flight, junior Texas Sydney Barros, Lewisville, Texas/Texas Dreams Gymnastics, junior Annie Beard, Coppell, Texas/Texas Dreams Gymnastics, junior Baylie Belman, Allen, Texas/WOGA Gymnastics, Hopes 10-11 Simone Biles, Spring, Texas/World Champions Centre, senior Skye Blakely, Frisco, Texas/WOGA Gymnastics, junior Sloane Blakely, Frisco, Texas/WOGA Gymnastics, senior Luisa Blanco, Little Elm, Texas/WOGA Gymnastics, senior Sophia Butler, Houston, Texas/Discover Gymnastics Inc., junior Audrey Davis, Frisco, Texas/WOGA Gymnastics, senior Amari Drayton, Lakeway, Texas/Olympia Hills Gymnastics, junior Karis German, Spring, Texas/World Champions Centre, junior Jaylene Gilstrap, McKinney, Texas/Metroplex Gymnastics, senior Hannah Hagle, Chireno, Texas/Texas East Gymnastics, junior Riley Harris, Spring, Texas/World Champions Centre, Hopes 12-13 Olivia Hollingsworth, Seabrook, Texas/World Champions Centre, senior Kaytlyn Johnson, Lantana, Texas/Denton Gymnastics Academy, junior Kaitlynd Kastl, Forney, Texas/Metroplex Gymnastics, Hopes 10-11 Isabel Mabanta, Frisco, Texas/Denton Gymnastics Academy, senior Emma Malabuyo, Flower Mound, Texas/Texas Dreams Gymnastics, senior Mallory Marcheli, Richmond, Texas/Stars Gymnastics Training Center-Houston, junior Zoey Molomo, Allen, Texas/Metroplex Gymnastics, Hopes 10-11 Michelle Pineda, Dallas, Texas/Metroplex Gymnastics, Hopes 10-11 Joscelyn Roberson, Texarkana, Texas/North East Texas Elite Gymnastics, Hopes 12-13 Katelyn Rosen, Boerne, Texas/Mavericks at Artemovs, junior Ragan Smith, Lewisville, Texas/Texas Dreams Gymnastics, senior Deanne Soza, Coppell, Texas/Texas Dreams Gymnastics, senior Alicia Zhou, San Antonio, Texas/Love Gymnastics, Hopes 10-11 Utah Lundyn Vandertoolen, Salt Lake City, Utah/Olympus Gymnastics, Hopes 12-13 Virginia Sophia Dennis, Burke, Va./Capital Gymnastics National Training Center, Hopes 10-11 Abigail Scanlon, Sterling, Va./Capital Gymnastics National Training Center, junior Jamison Sears, Yorktown, Va./World Class Gymnastics, Hopes 12-13 Ava Siegfeldt, Hampton, Va./World Class Gymnastics, junior Jaelah Warner, Suffolk, Va./World Class Gymnastics, Hopes 12-13 Washington Jordan Chiles, Vancouver, Wash./Naydenov Gymnastics Inc., senior West Virginia Konnor McClain, Cross Lanes, W.Va./Revolution Gymnastics, junior

13 agenții de turism, amendate de Consiliul Concurenței

Consiliul Concurenţei a amendat 13 agenţii de turism şi Asociaţia Naţională a Agenţiilor de Turism (ANAT). Sancțiunile totale ajung la 11.419.539.35 lei (aproximativ 2,45 milioane euro). Motivul: coordonarea comportamentului pe piaţa comercializării produselor turistice prin agenţii de turism.

Agenții de turism amendate de Consiliul Concurenței. Schimb de informații sensibile

Autoritatea a constatat că, în perioada iunie 2013-septembrie 2016, 13 agenţii de turism și-au coordonat politicile comerciale, inclusiv printr-un schimb de informaţii sensibile din punct de vedere concurenţial, cu scopul de a nu permite scăderea preţurilor produselor/pachetelor turistice comercializate.

În urma acestor înțelegeri, agenţiile de turism nu au redus, sub un anumit nivel, preţul de vânzare către clienți pentru produsele turistice şi/sau pachetele de servicii turistice comercializate. În plus, acestea au limitat sau au eliminat campaniile promoționale ale companiilor concurente care ofereau reduceri sau gratuităţi clienţilor şi au împărțit numărul de locuri în avioanele contractate pentru zborurile de tip charter pentru a limita astfel în mod artificial oferta în vederea creșterii prețului de vânzare.

Amenzile au fost aplicate astfel:

1. Aerotravel S.R.L. 400.754,46 lei (86.003 euro); 2. Air Fla S.R.L. 9.618,91 lei (2.064euro); 3. Corali Holidays S.R.L. 6.644,12 lei ( 1.426 euro); 4. Eximtur S.R.L. 685.116,14 lei (147.027 euro); 5. Fibula Air Travel S.R.L. 88.310,64 lei (18.952 euro); 6. Happy Tour S.R.L. 519.597,56 lei (111.506 euro); 7. Nova Travel S.R.L. 124.616,00 lei (26.743 euro); 8. Paralela 45 Turism S.R.L. 1.723.737,00 lei (369.917 euro); 9. Prestige Tours International S.R.L. 2.139.282,82 lei (459.093 euro); 10. Prompt Service Travel Company S.R.L. 186.084,73 lei (39.934 euro); 11. Rezeda World Travel S.R.L. 28.780,08 lei (6.176 euro); 12. Tez Tour S.R.L. 55.930,00 lei (12.003 euro); 13. Touring Europabus Romania S.R.L. 5.397.762,87 lei (1.158.368 euro).

Consiliul Concurenței a mai anunțat că agenția Christian’76 Tour S.R.L. a aplicat la programul de clemenţă, oferind dovezi privind existenţa faptelor anticoncurenţiale, şi a primit imunitate la amendă.

Companiile Aerotravel S.R.L., Eximtur S.R.L., Fibula Air Travel S.R.L., Nova Travel S.R.L., Paralela 45 Turism S.R.L., Prompt Service Travel Company S.R.L., Rezeda World Travel S.R.L., Tez Tour S.R.L., Touring Europabus Romania S.R.L. au recunoscut participarea la practica anticoncurenţială şi au beneficiat de reducerea cu 20% din nivelul de bază al amenzii.

Agenții de turism amendate de Consiliul Concurenței. Tarom

Investigația va continua analiza privind posibilul comportament anticoncurențial al Companiei Naţionale de Transporturi Aeriene Române Tarom S.A., respectiv facilitarea săvârşirii faptei anticoncurenţiale.

În cadrul aceleiaşi investigaţii, Consiliul Concurenţei a sancţionat ANAT cu 53.304,02 lei (11.439,12 euro) deoarece, în perioada septembrie 2012 – aprilie 2016, a interzis membrilor săi care operau ca revânzători pentru produse turistice și/sau pachete de servicii turistice, să acorde clienţilor reduceri sub forma cedărilor unei părţi din comisioanele ce le reveneau de la companiile (tur-operatorii) care ofereau acele produse/pachete turistice.

Agenții de turism amendate de Consiliul Concurenței. ANAT a recunoscut fapta

ANAT şi-a recunoscut fapta anticoncurenţială şi a beneficiat de o reducere a amenzii de 20%.

În plus, autoritatea a impus ANAT obligaţia de a organiza şi derula acţiuni de instruire pentru agenţiile membre şi angajaţii acestora, pentru a cunoaște reglementările din domeniul concurenței şi, astfel, să poată identifica posibile practici anticoncurențiale.

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