Who is Diana Jenkins?
Someone I’ve been looking into lately is Diana Jenkins. How the hell did she get into this glamorous Hollywood lifestyle when she was a supposed refugee for 10 years in the UK?
Diana, allegedly met her rich husband at a gym in Barbican, London of all places. Apparently he was living there after a previous divorce. And she was an escort.
According to an article, she graduated in Economics and Computer Science and “saved” Barclays bank from financial ruin by arranging a meeting with a sheikh for her husband, Mr Jenkins, who was a British financier, leading to a deal being brokered and an amazing financial forecast. She smooth talked her way in meetings and catapulted his career so much that he apparently happily gave her almost £300mil in their divorce. From this to apparently having amazingly close relationships with endless celebrities, I don’t understand it. She presented so lacklustre on the reality show TRHOBH (Season 12) and wasn’t anything special besides being racist and obnoxious. Something ain’t adding up here.
The blind item on the gossip blog, CDAN that was written by Enty (celebrity lawyer) in 2012. The blind is legit the only source that points to any of the call girls rumors.
One of the more serious allegations in the blind has implicated Hayden Panettiere in being trafficked by Diana Jenkins herself in 2007-2009. Hayden met her future fiancée and the father of her child, Wladimir Klitschko at the Room 23 (both were featured in the book) launch party in Hollywood. Klitschko was the then heavyweight boxing champion of the world. You might have also seen him in current news because he is the brother of the mayor of Kyiv and has been fighting in Ukraine’s army. It makes sense that Klitschko would be friends with someone like Diana, as they both come from war-torn (Bosnia and Ukraine), former Soviet states. Both have done lots of advocacy and humanitarian work for their respective countries.
Diana received a $300 million divorce settlement in 2010. Her ex-husband was a top executive at London-based Barclays Bank. And she also recently sold her Malibu house (that she got in the divorce) for $87 million. I’ve also seen that her drink brand, Neuro does $89 million a year in revenue.
As for allegations that Diana has ties with Saudi oil money, that part is absolutely true. In 2008 during the financial crisis, Barclays was on the verge of bankruptcy and a multibillion-dollar investment was made by a Qatari prince. Diana met the wife of billionaire Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim, Prime Minister of Qatar, while vacationing in Sardinia, Italy. Through that relationship, Diana introduced her husband and bank officials to the Sheik. She was apparently an integral part of the investment negotiations. Barclays was therefore saved from getting a government bailout and becoming state-controlled by the Bank of England. So in a way, Diana can be attributed to saving Barclays Bank. Can one argue that Diana’s money inherently comes from a seedy place? Absolutely. But we’d have to also implicate the entirety of the banking industry. They all get backing from controversial sources and engage in shady practices. Diana has said that London High Society was not kind to her. She was often treated like a “mail-order bride” and a “gold digger.” Her husband is all over the Epstein files and emails. Epstein pressuring the ex UK prime minister to put him in charge of Barclay’s bank at the time. She moved to Hollywood and started charities to rub elbows with celebrities. Her coffee table book “Room 23” was allegedly a menu for Saudis to pick famous women from. Hayden was one of them.
For years, Hayden Panettiere and Diana Jenkins were constant fodder in the Crazy Days and Nights blind-item community, with readers thinking the former was a “yachting” sugar baby and the latter was her wealthy madame. Skeptics of their closeness pointed to the photo book Room 23 as an alleged catalogue of all the sex workers in Jenkins’ stable. Jenkins eventually sued CDAN and the anonymous gossipmonger known as “Enty Lawyer.” The two eventually settled and people forgot about Diana’s past until now.
Hayden Panettiere, in her memoir, said her friendship with Jenkins — who was 30 years her senior — came shortly after she fired her momager. “I’m not sure what I needed at the time,” she writes, “a mother figure, a diversion from Heroes, or some excitement and friendship — but I fell completely under her spell.” Jenkins also helped her get over her breakup with Ventimiglia with a trip to New York on a private jet.
At the release party for Room 23, in February 2009, Panettiere met Wladimir Klitschko (a close friend of Diana Jenkins). While shooting Nashville and trying to recover from postpartum depression and prescription drugs, Hayden sought inpatient rehab. She says it was seeking treatment that got her fired from her longtime job as a Neutrogena spokesperson and from the show. It was also during this period of recovery that Klitschko demanded she give up custody of their daughter Kaya. After giving up custody, and the end of Nashville, Panettiere met Brian Hickerson at L.A.’s Abbey bar. The two hit it off but eventually devolved into an abusive relationship fueled by drinking. “Seven years of mental illness, addiction, rage, abuse, and pain,” she writes. It’s during that time, that Hayden cut ties with Diana and started writing her memoir. 3 months after it was published and before she could name names without the threat of being sued by Jenkins, she was found dead in a hotel room in South Carolina. Overdose, they say.
When are they going to investigate Diana Jenkins?