By Gideon Resnick and Kelly Weill
Before he organized a meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Kremlin-connected attorney, Rob Goldstone was known as a New York City playboy who hosted vodka-soaked parties with younger acquaintances at the Russian Tea Room, a Manhattan restaurant blocks away from Trump Tower.
In June 2016, Goldstone orchestrated a meeting between Donald Jr., President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and Trump’s then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort, The New York Times
reported Monday. Goldstone emailed Trump Jr., promising “information
that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia.” The info
was “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump—helped
along by Aras and Emin,” Goldstone wrote. Aras and Emin Agalarov are a
Russian billionaire and his aspiring popstar son, whose career Goldstone
managed.
The Agalarovs have long boasted of their close
relationship with Trump—they hosted his Miss Universe pageant in Moscow
in 2013. Emin’s music career—which saw pre-President Trump appear in one
of his music videos—also helped bankroll Goldstone’s life in New York’s club scene.
Goldstone, 57, is a British music publicist and former journalist
based in the New York area who has represented musicians, including John
Denver and Michael Jackson.
Around 2013, he associated with a
crowd of New York men, “largely in their twenties, a lot of expats, all
CW-series-regular attractive, and everyone pretty vaguely moneyed,” one
former member of the scene, who requested anonymity to avoid reprisals,
told The Daily Beast. “The kind of crowd where an apartment party in a
loft on Madison Square Park turned into a limo ride turned into illicit
substances in the bathrooms at Boom Boom Room, all of it getting paid
for… somehow. One of the fixtures in this scene was Rob, who was always
the only old guy in the group.”
Goldstone ended up paying for at least one pricey party at the Russian Tea Room.
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Source: The Daily Beast
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