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Claim: purports Ghislaine Maxwell worked at Disney World in 1985 (Video, 2023-07-14)
Evidence (2022-06-28): Ghislaine Maxwell was born on Christmas Day 1961. Three days later, a car carrying her 15-year-old brother Michael crashed into a lorry along a foggy Oxfordshire road. Michael Maxwell would spend the remaining seven years of his life in a coma. [...] Throughout Ghislaine Maxwell's childhood, lavish parties were thrown at Headington Hill Hall, with politicians, celebrities and media grandees in attendance. But after the VIPs had left the building it was a deeply emotionally austere place to grow up. [...] Although his favourite, Ghislaine Maxwell wasn't immune from any of this. But while some of her siblings withdrew or rebelled, she was always anxious to please her father - she told Tatler in 2000 he was an "inspiring" parent - and dedicated herself to keeping him happy. It must have worked, after a fashion - Maxwell Snr later named his private yacht the Lady Ghislaine, rather than after Betty or his three older daughters.
Claim: purports Ghislaine Maxwell worked at Disney World in 1985 (Video, 2023-07-14)
Evidence (2021-12-29): A British woman using the pseudonym Kate alleged Maxwell befriended her at age 14, which then led to sexual encounters with Epstein.
Claim: purports Ghislaine Maxwell worked at Disney World in 1985 (Video, 2023-07-14)
Evidence (2021-12-29): The first time I saw Ghislaine Maxwell, I followed her from the door of her luxurious brownstone down the streets of Manhattan, asking her about the horrific allegations against her. [...] "Ghislaine Maxwell had the disadvantage of having to explain this parade of young girls who were coming in and out of the home daily underneath her supervision," says Mitchell Epner, a former prosecutor.
Claim: purports Ghislaine Maxwell worked at Disney World in 1985 (Video, 2023-07-14)
Evidence (2021-12-29): Ghislaine Maxwell: The harrowing testimony that brought her down - Published The first time I saw Ghislaine Maxwell, I followed her from the door of her luxurious brownstone down the streets of Manhattan, asking her about the horrific allegations against her. [...] "Ghislaine Maxwell had the disadvantage of having to explain this parade of young girls who were coming in and out of the home daily underneath her supervision," says Mitchell Epner, a former prosecutor.
Claim: purports Ghislaine Maxwell worked at Disney World in 1985 (Video, 2023-07-14)
Evidence (2021-12-29): Ghislaine Maxwell: Key moments in the sex trafficking trial - Published [...] A British woman using the pseudonym Kate alleged Maxwell befriended her at age 14, which then led to sexual encounters with Epstein.
Claim: purports Ghislaine Maxwell worked at Disney World in 1985 (Video, 2023-07-14)
Evidence (2021-12-31): Ghislaine Maxwell has been found guilty of recruiting and trafficking young girls to be sexually abused by the late American financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Claim: purports Ghislaine Maxwell worked at Disney World in 1985 (Video, 2023-07-14)
Evidence (2024-10-09): Maxwell was a prominent member of the London social scene in the 1980s.[27] She founded a women's club named after the original Kit-Cat Club[12][28] and was a director of Oxford United Football Club during her father's ownership.[29][30] She also worked at The European,[31] a publication her father had established. According to Tom Bower, writing for The Sunday Times, in 1986 Robert invited her to the naming in her honour of his new yacht the Lady Ghislaine, at a shipyard in the Netherlands.[32] She spent a large amount of time in the late 1980s aboard the yacht, which was equipped with a jacuzzi, sauna, gym and disco.[33] The Scotsman said Robert had also "tailor-made a New York company for her".[34] The company, which dealt in corporate gifts, was not profitable.[26][32][35]
Claim: purports Ghislaine Maxwell worked at Disney World in 1985 (Video, 2023-07-14)
Evidence (2021-12-30): Ghislaine Maxwell has been found guilty of recruiting and trafficking young girls to be sexually abused by the late American financier Jeffrey Epstein. [...] The first time I saw Ghislaine Maxwell, I followed her from the door of her luxurious brownstone down the streets of Manhattan, asking her about the horrific allegations against her.
Claim: purports Ghislaine Maxwell worked at Disney World in 1985 (Video, 2023-07-14)
Evidence (2022-04-13): Claim: Disney has close ties to the disgraced financier Epstein and his ex-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted of luring young girls to be sexually abused by him. Facts: These claims are not supported by evidence. Social media posts in recent weeks have pointed to three different examples of purported connections between Disney and Epstein, none of which stands up to further investigation. [...] For the third claim, social media users are sharing photos of Maxwell at a Disney-themed event in 1985 to suggest Disney tacitly endorses someone who committed sex crimes against children.
Claim: purports Ghislaine Maxwell worked at Disney World in 1985 (Video, 2023-07-14)
Evidence (2020-10-23): - According to Tatler, (Ghislaine) Maxwell recalled that her father installed computers at Headington in 1973 and her first job was training to use a Wang and later programming code. https://www.tatler.com/article/tatler-archives-maxwell-family-interview (Wang is now owned by Getronics, a Dutch IT Firm). [...] - NOTE: Rupert Murdoch’s ex-wife, Wendy Deng, was reportedly also dating Vladimir Putin, but these rumors were never confrimed https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/03/vladimir-putin-wendi-deng-couple - In June 1985 Maxwell announced a takeover of Clive Sinclair’s ailing home computer company, Sinclair Research, through Hollis Brothers, a Pergamon subsidiary. https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/18/business/sinclair-to-sell-british-unit.html - NOTE: Britain’s "Silicon Valley", i.e., the Silicon Fen located in Cambridge (reminds me of the firm Cambridge Analytica) is tied to Sinclair Computer. The interest in technology in the area started with Sinclair Research and Acorn Computers (the British IBM and Apple at their times).
Claim: purports Ghislaine Maxwell worked at Disney World in 1985 (Video, 2023-07-14)
Evidence (2022-03-08): They opened with Cimberly Espinosa, who was Ghislaine Maxwell’s executive assistant from November of 1996 to 2002. Espinosa’s opinion of Maxwell was very different from the testimony we’d heard from the four accusers the prosecution presented previously. [...] Witness alleges Ghislaine Maxwell groped her as a teenager [...] Ghislaine Maxwell is used to being the woman of the hour. The 59-year-old British aristocrat was a fixture of the London and New York social scenes throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, rubbing shoulders and champagne flutes with an international cast of power players that included two US presidents and at least one prince. In her jet-setting, party-hopping days, she allegedly lived a double life as a groomer of girls, serving up underage victims to Jeffrey Epstein and the megawatt men who moved alongside him.
Claim: purports Ghislaine Maxwell worked at Disney World in 1985 (Video, 2023-07-14)
Evidence (2022-01-01): Ghislaine Maxwell's family says they've 'already started the appeal' after guilty child-sex-trafficking verdict 2021-12-30T15:35:25.587Z 4 reasons jurors sided with the prosecution to convict Ghislaine Maxwell on 5 sex trafficking charges 2021-12-30T15:34:52.163Z 47 of the most daring looks celebrities wore in 2021 2021-12-30T15:26:26.399Z [...] Veteran courtroom sketch artist says Ghislaine Maxwell has been her 'sketching buddy' during the trial 2021-12-08T15:25:09.601Z [...] Accuser says Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein picked her up at summer camp when she was 14 years old and sexually abused her for 5 years 2021-12-03T16:50:20.009Z
Claim: Rapper Notorious B.I.G predicted Covid-19 pandemic in 1994 (Viral video, 2023-03-13)
Evidence (2023-03-13): The claim is inaccurate. The video has been digitally altered.
Claim: Rapper Notorious B.I.G predicted Covid-19 pandemic in 1994 (Viral video, 2023-03-13)
Evidence (2021-05-05): Who made more accurate predictions about the course of the COVID-19 pandemic – experts or the public? A study from the University of Cambridge has found that experts such as epidemiologists and statisticians made far more accurate predictions than the public, but both groups substantially underestimated the true extent of the pandemic. Predicting the course of a brand-new disease like COVID-19 just a few months after it had first been identified is incredibly difficult, but the important thing is for experts to be able to acknowledge uncertainty and adapt their predictions as more data become available. [...] Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, social and traditional media have disseminated predictions from experts and non-experts about its expected magnitude.
Claim: Rapper Notorious B.I.G predicted Covid-19 pandemic in 1994 (Viral video, 2023-03-13)
Evidence (2021-03-09): A new documentary explores the legacy of the Notorious B.I.G.
Claim: Rapper Notorious B.I.G predicted Covid-19 pandemic in 1994 (Viral video, 2023-03-13)
Evidence (2020-12-21): A rapper named Dr. Creep predicted the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in a song, if the internet’s conspiracy theories are to be believed. Much like other stories we have covered about coronavirus predictions, we found this one to be untrue. [...] But Dr. Creep himself denied that he predicted the pandemic. In March 2020, he posted on his Facebook page that the lyrics were "more of a coincidence than a prediction as I don't feel I was 'trying' to predict anything, I just rapped about what I was watching."
Claim: Rapper Notorious B.I.G predicted Covid-19 pandemic in 1994 (Viral video, 2023-03-13)
Evidence (2021-07-14): VIDEO: Arizona Rapper Predicted Coronavirus Pandemic In 2013 Song A Phoenix rapper has gone viral for predicting the 2020 coronavirus pandemic over eight years ago, reported Hot New Hip Hop. [...] So is the rapper a psychic?
Claim: Rapper Notorious B.I.G predicted Covid-19 pandemic in 1994 (Viral video, 2023-03-13)
Evidence (2020-10-13): There's nothing more rock and roll than living fast and burning out hard and bright, and no other 2020 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame hits those notes harder than iconic rapper The Notorious B.I.G., aka Biggie Smalls. The Brooklyn-born innovator will join the ranks of music legends alongside The Doobie Brothers, Depeche Mode, Whitney Houston, Nine Inch Nails, and T-Rex on November 7. (As CNN reported in July, the induction ceremony, scheduled for May 2, was postponed and changed to an HBO special this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.) Biggie's small but influential body of work seemed to prophesy both the end of his life and the beginning of his immortal place in the pantheon of hip-hop greats. His debut album, 1994's Ready To Die, shot him to stardom and presaged his death on March 9, 1997, when an unidentified gunman shot him after a party in Los Angeles, California. If he knew that the type of life he lived would lead to such a violent and early end, Biggie Smalls was also well aware that the music he made would endure even after he was gone, and he named his follow-up album accordingly. The eerily prescient Life After Death was released on March 25, 1997, just 16 days after his murder.
Claim: Rapper Notorious B.I.G predicted Covid-19 pandemic in 1994 (Viral video, 2023-03-13)
Evidence (2021-06-02): The COVID-19 pandemic was something truly unpredictable that caught pretty much the whole world off guard, and even now we’re still struggling to cope with it. But what if I told you that someone might have actually predicted it was going to happen? A TikTok video by tythecrazyguy recently went viral because it seems that Ty has possibly uncovered that a rapper predicted the pandemic. [...] However, it looks like that isn’t the only prediction that the rapper has made. Dr. Creep made a post on Facebook after his song "PANDEMIC" went viral, and the rapper seemed frustrated that people are only discussing this now when it isn’t even the only thing he’s predicted. [...] This could mean that the rapper predicted not just the COVID-19 pandemic, but also the lockdown following the outbreak of the virus. How creepy is that?
Claim: Rapper Notorious B.I.G predicted Covid-19 pandemic in 1994 (Viral video, 2023-03-13)
Evidence (2023-01-23): Why has The Notorious B.I.G.’s debut Juicy topped BBC Music’s poll of the greatest hip-hop songs of all time? Sowmya Krishnamurthy explains. [...] The 1994 release is a watershed moment in the timeline of hip-hop, marking the official arrival of Biggie Smalls (born Christopher Wallace). Juicy is a modern bildungsroman of a young, black man growing up in Brooklyn. "It was all a dream, I used to read Word Up! Magazine," he recalls about his life. "I made the change from a common thief/To up close and personal with Robin Leach." [...] There’s a universality in Juicy that enables it to stand the test of time, whether you grew up in the belly of Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy neighbourhood, or you experience your own daily struggle. Twenty-five years later, Biggie’s uplifting message of perseverance, of better days, still resonates. We don’t have him around anymore, but the aspiration he left behind continues to inspire. And it’s all good.
Claim: Rapper Notorious B.I.G predicted Covid-19 pandemic in 1994 (Viral video, 2023-03-13)
Evidence (2024-10-09): Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997), known professionally as the Notorious B.I.G., and formerly by the stage name Biggie Smalls,[1] or simply Biggie,[2] was an American rapper. Rooted in the New York rap scene and gangsta rap traditions, he is widely considered one of the greatest rappers of all time. Wallace became known for his distinctive, laidback lyrical delivery, offsetting his lyrics' often grim content. His music was usually semi-autobiographical, telling of hardship and criminality but also of debauchery and celebration. [...] - ^ a b c "Pop music: Biggie Smalls, Rap's Man of the Moment". The New York Times. December 18, 1994. Retrieved October 2, 2024. [...] - ^ "Unsigned Hype Revisited: The Notorious B.I.G. (March, 1992)". The Source. August 6, 2014. Retrieved October 2, 2024.
Claim: Rapper Notorious B.I.G predicted Covid-19 pandemic in 1994 (Viral video, 2023-03-13)
Evidence (2023-08-23): On Sept. 13, 1994, the same day President Clinton signed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, rapper Christopher Wallace, better known as Biggie Smalls, or the Notorious B.I.G., released his debut album, Ready to Die. [...] "When you listen to Biggie rap, you're like, 'OK, this guy is special,'" Tinsley says. "He was put on this Earth for a lot of reasons. But one of the most important was to make music." [...] Brooklyn woke up on the morning of March 9th to the news that you didn't even think was possible: Biggie Smalls, Notorious B.I.G. murdered in Los Angeles. Like, that is a part of Brooklyn's soul and spirit that it will never get back because he meant that much to that community. He took Brooklyn everywhere with him ... so that community, that day of the funeral procession, they gave Big one of his last wishes, because he says on the song "Still Can't Stop the Reign" ... "I rely on Bed-Stuy to put it down if I die." And Bed-Stuy in Brooklyn and Clinton Hill, they took that personally. And when the hearse is going throughout Brooklyn, it turns into a party because that was Biggie's wish.
Claim: Rapper Notorious B.I.G predicted Covid-19 pandemic in 1994 (Viral video, 2023-03-13)
Evidence (2023-07-31): The Notorious B.I.G. was born in May 1972 and had a devastatingly short career, spending just a few years in the spotlight before being murdered. In 'Respect', from his 1994 debut masterpiece Ready To Die, Biggie talks about the struggles his mother faced with childbirth, and how close he came to dying as an infant. [...] He embraced the G-funk sound on this 1994 hit. It made some sense – Snoop's Doggystyle had only just come out, and Dr. Dre's The Chronic wasn't much earlier than that – but this wasn't necessarily expected from an east coast rapper.
Claim: Rapper Notorious B.I.G predicted Covid-19 pandemic in 1994 (Viral video, 2023-03-13)
Evidence (2024-10-01): The Notorious B.I.G. (born May 21, 1972, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died March 9, 1997, Los Angeles, California) was an American rapper who was among the most influential artists of 1990s gangsta rap. [...] After developing a talent for rap as a pastime, Wallace recorded a demo under the stage name Biggie Smalls. The recording came to the attention of Sean ("Puffy") Combs, who then worked with Wallace at Uptown Records and in 1993 signed him to a new record label, Bad Boy Entertainment. Wallace’s first single as a solo artist, "Party and Bullshit," was released the following year, and his first album, Ready to Die, was released in 1994 under the name The Notorious B.I.G. Popular singles from that album include "Juicy" and "Big Poppa"—the latter earning him a Grammy nomination for best rap solo performance. Both before and after the release of the album, he collaborated with a number of other artists, including Mary J. Blige and Michael Jackson. [...] On March 9, 1997, Wallace was leaving a party at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles when he was killed in a drive-by shooting. The shooter and the motive remained unknown. Wallace’s second solo album, Life After Death, was released later that month.
Claim: Rapper Notorious B.I.G predicted Covid-19 pandemic in 1994 (Viral video, 2023-03-13)
Evidence (2024-09-13): Released in September 1994, The Notorious B.I.G’s debut album provided a slice of Brooklyn life. But what made it a work of art was its master class showcase of hip-hop’s key elements at play: beats, rhymes, and storytelling. It had a coterie of the genre’s esteemed beatsmiths: Easy Mo Bee, DJ Premier, and Trackmasters, among many others. They all had the greatest voice to lyrically lace up their tough-as-Timbs production. The combination of these ingredients blurred the lines between fiction and documentary, bringing raw vulnerability and behind-the-roving-lens realism to the stories from the underbelly of the beast, or as Big referred to it, "the everyday struggle." [...] This is the heart of Ready to Die. Here, we get a brutally clear snapshot of the conditions — Reagan era, poverty, crack, the ’94 federal crime bill — that made the Notorious B.I.G. "I know how it feels to wake up, f—ked up," he raps, capturing the gravity of life at the tattered edges of the American underside and the by-hook-or-by-crook mentality that comes as a result. Though he’s rapping from his own Brooklyn-bred experiences, it feels universal. The line "another day, another struggle" is as much a relatable sentiment as "good morning."
Claim: Rapper Notorious B.I.G predicted Covid-19 pandemic in 1994 (Viral video, 2023-03-13)
Evidence (2010-08-02): He recorded as The Notorious B.I.G. People knew him as Biggie Smalls, or Biggie. He was murdered when he was only 24 years old. Yet he's one of the most revered, emulated and biggest-selling rappers in the game. [...] Biggie started rapping with his friends Sam Hubert and Mike Bynum when they were 10 or 11 years old. Hubert met Biggie in day care, and he became Big's DJ. [...] Biggie so impressed his peers in the mid-1990s that almost every New York rapper has recorded a song that includes a shout-out to him. "Big influenced a generation. This whole generation took pieces and bits," AZ says. "Everybody took a piece out of Big that's on the charts right now. Everybody."
Claim: Rapper Notorious B.I.G predicted Covid-19 pandemic in 1994 (Viral video, 2023-03-13)
Evidence (2022-03-10): When Christopher George Latore Wallace was fatally shot at a Los Angeles traffic light on March 9, 1997, he was 24 years old and had released one album. But his stature at the time was towering, due both to his peerless artistic gifts and the desperately competitive atmosphere within hip-hop, viewed either rightly or wrongly as one of the few career dreams for Black kids boxed in by poverty, mass incarceration, racist drug policy, and corrupt, violent policing. That stature has only grown in the 25 years since. If the Notorious B.I.G. isn’t the greatest rapper ever (he is), then he’s the most respected. His narrative mastery, linguistic joy, dizzyingly rhythmic flows, emotional depth, and wry wisdom have never been equaled. Here’s why Biggie Smalls is still the illest. [...] - ‘Da B Side (Dirty)’ Da Brat feat. Jermaine Dupri and the Notorious B.I.G. (1994) [...] "The Wickedest Freestyle" is just straight bars of pure pain, with some of the former horror-core-adjacent MC’s most punishing lines. On this 1994 session, from Funkmaster Flex’s Hot 97 radio show, Biggie compares his mic prowess to at least three STDs ("Herpes, gonorrhea, chlamydia, gettin’ rid of ya") before boasting that "MCs break fast like flapjacks and bacon" any time he steps near a booth. No one’s measured up since. —W.D.
Claim: Rapper Notorious B.I.G predicted Covid-19 pandemic in 1994 (Viral video, 2023-03-13)
Evidence (2024-10-07): A video on social media claims that the rapper named Notorious B.I.G. predicted the COVID pandemic in 1994. We fact-checked and found the claim is false. The snippet is from the song named Juicy and the lyrics nowhere talks about the COVID pandemic. [...] Did Biggie Smalls predict COVID-19 in 1994? No. Smalls never predicted the COVID pandemic in 1994. It seems that the claimed video is altered intentionally to spread disinformation on social media.
Claim: Rapper Notorious B.I.G predicted Covid-19 pandemic in 1994 (Viral video, 2023-03-13)
Evidence (2023-04-14): FACT CHECK: Did Biggie Smalls Predict The COVID-19 Pandemic in 1994? A video shared on social media purports rapper Christopher Wallace, better known as Notorious B.I.G, predicted the Covid-19 pandemic. [...] The Instagram post purports Wallace predicted the COVID-19 pandemic in his song, "Juicy." The post shares clip from the music video for the track. "I used to read Word Up Magazine/ there will be a global pandemic in 2019," the rapper appears to say.
Claim: Rapper Notorious B.I.G predicted Covid-19 pandemic in 1994 (Viral video, 2023-03-13)
Evidence (2022-11-07): Strategic Latency Unleashed 94 :
Claim: Rapper Notorious B.I.G predicted Covid-19 pandemic in 1994 (Viral video, 2023-03-13)
Evidence (2020-06-19): How 1994 Changed The Game For Hip-Hop
Claim: Rapper Notorious B.I.G predicted Covid-19 pandemic in 1994 (Viral video, 2023-03-13)
Evidence (2023-06-16): Notorious B.I.G., aka Biggie Smalls and real name Christopher Wallace, was of the most influential hip hop artists of his generation when he was shot and killed in 1997 in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles. The four-time Grammy nominee fueled the East Coast rap surge with his 1994 debut album Ready to Die. He was one of the top-selling male solo artists and rappers on the U.S. pop and R&b charts at the time of his death; the killer has never been found. [...] Noted as one of the greatest rappers of all time, B.I.G. was a four-time Grammy nominee who gained solo success after releasing his first single, "Juicy," followed by his 1994 debut solo album, "Ready to Die." The album produced two further hits, which helped east coast hip-hop gain prominence in a chart landscape dominated by west coast stars. [...] As we approach the one-year anniversary of the Covid-19 pandemic hitting the U.S., all of us have become professional bingers. On Wednesday, Feb. 24, Netflix announced all of the new TV shows, movies and original projects joining the streaming service in March 2021. The month kicks off with something for the music lovers with the Netflix original documentary, Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell, which will detail the life, career and untimely 1997 death of Brooklyn rapper Christopher "Biggie Smalls" Wallace aka The Notorious B.I.G. Speaking of originals, Last Chance U: Basketball is finally here. The series will follow the East Los Angeles College Huskies basketball team as they make their way to...