What is known about the PR who provoked the threat of trump impeachment

Rob Goldstone. Photo: Facebook

Before Rob Goldstone organized meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Kremlin-related lawyer, he was known in American circles as a playboy from New York who held vodka parties for acquaintances in the Russian Tea Room, a restaurant in Manhattan, away from Trump Tower.

In June 2016, Goldstone organized a meeting for Trump Jr., President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kouchner and Trump’s campaigner Paul Manafort’s campaign leader, reports The New York Times. Goldstone emailed Trump Jr. promising "information that smears Hillary and her relationship with Russia." The information was “part of Araz and Emin’s Russian support for Mr. Trump’s government,” Goldstone wrote. Aras and Emin Agalarov are a Russian billionaire and his son, a rising pop star whose career was managed by Goldstone.

The Agalarovs have long boasted of their friendship with Trump - they took part in the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow in 2013. In addition, current President Donald Trump appeared in one of Emin's videos.

Goldstone, 57, is a former journalist turned music PR agent in New York. He was a PR person for musicians John Denever and Michael Jackson. In 2013, he began organizing parties for men “mostly in their twenties, many emigrants,” one former stage worker told the publication on condition of anonymity. The Daily Beast. "The mob smoked in a loft at Madison Square Park, rode limousines and consumed prohibited substances in Boom Boom Room. In these companies, Rob was always the only old guy,” said an anonymous source.

Michael Musto, a New York journalist and former columnist The Village Voice, said that Goldstone invited him to events at New york friars club, a private club in Midtown known for hosting celebrity nights. “I always liked it because I love the humor of the Borscht Belt and I’m not ashamed to admit it,” Musto told the publication The Daily Beast. “I also thought Rob was very approachable—he’s friendly, reminds me a little of Alfred P. Dolittle in My Fair Lady, and he always gave me access to his charges.” Asked what he thought of Godstone now that he had seen the headlines over the past few days, Musto said: "I almost spat out my borscht."

Trump himself was the guest of honor Friars roast in 2004 year. CNN President Jeff Zucker, comedian Arte Lange and others attended the event. Goldstone was known for his eccentric habits.

Before moving to Australia, where he worked as a John Denver PR manager for 1980, and then became co-president of his own PR company Crawford Goldstone Playlitis, he gave an interview about his fight against hunger in Ethiopia, in which he said that put on weight.

"In 1984, PR agent Rob Goldstone went to Ethiopia on Band Aid (rock concert to help hunger victims) and gained more than three kilograms,” reported Sydney Morning Herald in 1989 year.

“We stayed at the Hilton. … There’s only so much you can do in a country like Ethiopia,” Goldstone told the newspaper.

He said in an interview that sometimes he only ate dessert at lunch. “I went out to dinner last night and asked for the dessert menu first,” he said. — I found a dessert called Chocolate indulgence and ordered it. " Gluttony was his favorite of the seven deadly sins, as he told the newspaper Morning herald. “Greed is different from gluttony,” he said. - If you have more of something, it doesn't bother me as long as I can do what I love... Some say the more you indulge in it, the faster you'll get bored of it. But this is not true. In 2010, he wrote a column for The New York Times entitled "The Tricks and Trials of a Fat Traveler."

In a separate interview with the newspaper, he described leaving his New York home before the 2004 Republican National Convention. “There's going to be quite a bit of chaos and madness,” Goldstone said, telling the newspaper he would be heading to the conference in London. “Given the times and the security problems that exist today - and with international and domestic threats - this would be ridiculous. I think it will be incredible, this has never happened before.”

Some clients of Goldstone lacked the energy of Denver or Michael Jackson. In 2011, Goldstone was marked as executive producer on I am real Simon Van Kempen’s single, which Gauker dubbed the “worst single.” The Goldstone pages on social media are replete with a collection of colorful hats and humorous videos, including April photography in Facebook, under which he wrote “Me Goes!”, and where he is imprinted in a golden hat with the word CUNTY.

Rob Goldstone Photo: Facebook

In May 2017, he announced that he would appear in a talk show that would also feature Hillary Clinton. On a recent trip to Greece, he filmed a scene from the Titanic, in which he played both Jack and Rose.

Shortly after Trump's victory in November, Goldstone posted a photo on Instagram (his account is now private) of himself posing in a T-shirt with the word "RUSSIA" on it. Goldstone also apparently financed his expenses for the New York convention with "Russian" money. “Nobody really knew where he came from,” said a former Goldstone acquaintance, “but a friend once explained that he was a producer for the untalented son of a Russian billionaire who wanted a career in show business. This guy was Emin AgalarovGoldstone produced under his own labels. Oui 2 Entertainment.

Like Goldstone, Emin presented himself as something of a playboy and appeared in music videos featuring Miss Universe contestants and Donald Trump himself. “We thought that building a Trump tower next to the Agalarov tower - with two big names - could be a really cool project,” Emin said in an interview in March Forbestelling about his family's affairs with Trump.

Trump abandoned the deal when he took office, but Emin suggested the Agalarovs were still awaiting action from the president. “Now that he’s elected, he doesn’t forget his friends,” Emin told Forbes.

Goldstone Business Partner Label Oui 2 did not comment on requests The Daily Beast. But while the company promoted Emin's musical career by placing his ad on packs of bread, Goldstone also acted as an intermediary for an aspiring pop star. 3 June 2016 of the Year Goldstone e-mailed to Trump Jr .: “Emin just called me and asked to contact you about an interesting case.” Trump Jr. posted these messages on Twitter on Tuesday, just a few minutes before the Times published a story about their content.

The Russian Prosecutor General "met with Emin's father Araz this morning, and at that meeting it was proposed that the Trump campaign provide some official documents and information about Hillary and her relationship with Russia, which would be very useful to your father," Goldstone wrote. “This is information of a very serious level, but this can be considered support for Mr. Trump by the Russian government, which is assisted by Araz and Emin,” he continued. Trump Jr. responded that "if it's what you say, I like it" and sent messages to Kushner and Manafort, who attended the June 9 meeting at Trump Tower. “I won’t sit in on the meeting, but I’ll bring them in at 15:00 p.m. to introduce you and stuff.”

Goldstone wrote about two people that Trump Junior was to meet with. Regardless of whether or not he was present, he was noted in Trump Tower и Trump Organization on Facebook a few hours before the meeting. “Preparing for the meeting,” he wrote in Facebook.

Recall 9 July it became known that in the summer of 2016, the son and son of Donald Trump, as well as the then head of his campaign headquarters met with a Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.

According to Trump Jr., the meeting was organized by his friends; the lawyer initially promised to provide compromising on Clintonbut focused the conversation on Magnitsky’s list and the adoption program of Russian children by Americans.

The Kremlin said they did not know about the meeting and have no idea who Veselnitskaya was.

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