Stanley Kubrick's 'Eyes Wide Shut': Behind the Mask of Corruption

The truly red meat posts often get flagged on HN. And sometimes I find it interesting to examine just how far a source like the Paris Review is willing to venture into this sort of territory.

Haha while he clearly enjoys the impunity that comes with being in the uppermost stratum of society, Prince Andrew has never struck me as the type to be calling the important shots there.

Robert Maxwell is an interesting case. He had been stealing from his companies' pension funds and was on the brink of bankruptcy when he died. I could see that he just wanted to end it, although leaping into the ocean to drown doesn't strike me as a likely first choice of method. On the other hand there have been reports that Ghislaine insisted her father was killed by intelligence agencies when she moved to New York soon after his death. Some theories have it that he was attempting to blackmail Israeli or British intelligence and had to be taken care of.