{"id":201273,"date":"2020-01-23T07:17:29","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T07:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=201273"},"modified":"2020-01-25T06:44:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T06:44:19","slug":"satirical-historic-landmark-plaque-for-alan-dershowitz-added-to-jeffrey-epsteins-former-ues-mansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=201273","title":{"rendered":"Satirical &#8216;Historic Landmark&#8217; Plaque For Alan Dershowitz Added To Jeffrey Epstein&#8217;s Former UES Mansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Ben Yakas \u2013 The Gothamist Jan 21, 2020<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.prod.nypr.digital\/images\/300027\/fill-661x496\/\" alt=\"Alan Dershowitz plaque at Jeffrey Epstein's UES mansion\" width=\"661\" height=\"496\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Controversial attorney Alan Dershowitz was back in the news last week when <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/story\/2020-01-17\/alan-dershowitz-named-to-trumps-impeachment-legal-team\">it was announced<\/a><\/strong><\/span> that he was joining Trump&#8217;s legal team for his impeachment trial. Dershowitz, who previously defended O.J. Simpson, has had his career &#8220;marred by his association&#8221; with convicted pedophile <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/tags\/jeffrey-epstein\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Jeffrey Epstein<\/strong><\/span><\/a>; Dershowitz <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/crime-law\/2019\/11\/08\/alan-dershowitz-countersues-accuser-jeffrey-epstein-case-then-is-sued-by-david-boies\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>has also been accused<\/strong><\/span><\/a> of sexually assaulting one of Epstein&#8217;s victims when she was a teenager. Dershowitz denies the allegation and has countersued his accuser, calling her claims \u201clies, disparagement, defamation, harassment.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Now, a new guerrilla plaque at Epstein&#8217;s former Upper East Side mansion has been put up to commemorate a massage that Dershowitz does not deny receiving at the location.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The unofficial plaque, which was put up last week at 9 East 71st Street, specifically references <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/alan-dershowitz-sure-i-got-a-massage-at-jeffrey-epstei-1836314016\">Dershowitz&#8217;s comments last year<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>when it was revealed that he had received a massage at Epstein&#8217;s mansion. \u201cI kept my underwear on during the massage,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I don\u2019t like massages particularly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The plaque was put up by comedy duo <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tglnyc\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Good Liars<\/strong><\/span><\/a> (TGL), who previously put up subway advertisements <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/arts-entertainment\/have-you-spotted-crazy-rudy-giuliani-subway-ad\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>mocking Rudy Giuliani<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/arts-entertainment\/michael-cohen-gets-the-crappy-subway-ads-he-deserves\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Michael Cohen<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;We wanted to draw attention to the fact that The President of the United States just added a person of questionable character to his legal team,&#8221; said Jason Selvig, one of the members of TGL. &#8220;Dershowitz not only received a massage inside the mansion of the suspected sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but he also worked for Epstein to discredit his alleged victims. Nothing on the plaque is untrue. All facts. Including the quote. When you hire someone who represented OJ Simpson and Jeffrey Epstein, you aren\u2019t proving you\u2019re innocent, you\u2019re proving you\u2019re rich&#8230; and probably guilty.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Selvig added that they have a few other pieces planned for the future, but they always &#8220;try to be reactionary to the news&#8221; with their work. Other projects they&#8217;ve been involved with include those<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong> <a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/arts-entertainment\/video-what-if-the-subway-turnstile-beeps-were-fart-noises\">subway turnstile fart noises<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/arts-entertainment\/photos-videos-the-worst-people-of-santacon-2016\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>anti-SantaCon flyers<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, and the Mayor de Blasio <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/have-you-seen-this-man\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>missing posters<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">holy SHIT perfect <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qEHTlw22OD\">https:\/\/t.co\/qEHTlw22OD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pattonoswalt\/status\/1218292727563145223?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Since the new year, they&#8217;ve put up more of those &#8220;Crazy Rudy&#8221; ads (this time <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B7WtbRqJ7Pd\/\">translated into Ukrainian<\/a><\/strong><\/span>), taken a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B7ZEeCbJDAD\/\">very classy tour<\/a><\/strong><\/span> of Trump Tower, and posted some <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheGoodLiars\/status\/1216872572496896006\">&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>#HonestSigns&#8221; about Fox News<\/strong><\/span><\/a> on the subway (&#8220;Comfort Food For Stupid People&#8221;). And of course, who could forget the time they interrupted Trump during an event and called him boring:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We think Donald Trump should be impeached for being too BORING. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TrumpImpeachment?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TrumpImpeachment<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dgxaYryOEU\">pic.twitter.com\/dgxaYryOEU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Good Liars (@TheGoodLiars) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheGoodLiars\/status\/1207315291010670594?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 18, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/arts-entertainment\/alan-dershowitz-historic-landmark-plaque-goes-jeffrey-epstein\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plaque is to commemorate a massage given to Alan Dershowitz, who does not deny he received a massage but says he kept his underwear on  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Inside_the_White_House_and_Washingtons_Beltway","category-historic-sexual-abuse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201275,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201273\/revisions\/201275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}