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Seven years ago today July 4th, Stephen Hanson texted Jeffrey Epstein "Enjoy Paris." Two days later Epstein was arrested at Teterboro. He was dead 35 days after that.

Today Plainsite publishes what the documents show about the private jets.

This piece contains findings from the DOJ Epstein archive that have never been reported anywhere — until now:

Jeffrey Epstein asked in writing: "do we have one on the shelf that does not show my name?" Six days later SFS LLC was formed — wholly owned by Steve Hanson — to purchase an $18.5 million Gulfstream G550. Epstein's own Deutsche Bank account wired the $500,000 deposit to the structuring lawyer three days before the LLC was created.

Hanson already had a private jet. A Bombardier Global 5000. Documents show it was used to fly a redacted young woman to Zorro Ranch with Epstein in 2012. And to fly Karyna Shuliak — the woman Epstein left $100 million and his private island to — internationally from dental school with her passport collected in 2013.

The Gulfstream G550 is now flying for the billionaire Sand's family behind Corona beer. They had no idea what they were buying.

Hanson's lawyer says Epstein pulled the wool over everyone's eyes. The documents say something else.

Full article: https://open.substack.com/pub/plainsitepapers/p/dead-reckoning-stephen-hanson-owned?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=88mjxl

Plainsite. Public Record. Hidden Truth.

This is a call to action. We are looking for the best investigators to help us solve this mystery. Two months ago we published The Trap, a Plainsite investigation into Steve Hanson's decades-long friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. Many of you read it here. This piece is a follow-up, and it is different. The Trap was an investigation we delivered. This one is an investigation we are inviting you into please helping.

At the center of Hanson's emails to Epstein is a woman. She is never named. She is the one Hanson called the girl from Scottsdale, the rotten bitch, the total psychopath, and finally the California person. In his own words, he met her at his James Hotel in Scottsdale in 2004 or 2005, where she and her friends would hang around. He spent ten years paying for her life. He bought her a diamond ring. He bought her horses. He took her calls almost daily. Then in 2014 to 2016 he spent two years begging Epstein for help silencing her. The correspondence about her stops in July 2016. She has never been publicly identified. Two months of national press coverage, including a front-page New York Times investigation by Kim Severson, The Trap, and Adam Robb's earlier piece on Press Trip, have not produced her name. Not one woman has come forward as her. Not one person in Hanson's orbit has named her. The press has done what the press can do. It is not enough.

We need you. The basics. The full case is in the linked Plainsite piece above.

She met Hanson in 2004 or 2005 at the James Hotel in Scottsdale. He was in his fifties, married, with daughters. She would have been a young adult. He has never said her name in any document we have found.

The James Hotel and its J Bar lounge were a major destination in 2004 to 2006. The New York Times called the J Bar one of the hottest hotel-bar scenes in the country. Travel and Leisure named the James America's Sexiest Resort. She was part of that scene.

The Agency Arizona, a modeling agency founded by Margaret Merritt in 2004, operated from inside the James Hotel during Hanson's ownership. Margaret has not responded to outreach from us or from the New York Times.

The financial relationship involved real estate, a diamond ring, and horses. The horses are one of the strongest leads we have. Hanson and his wife Deana were known in the East Hampton equestrian scene at the Hampton Classic. He was running a separate set of horses with this woman in a different geography during the same years.

By 2016 she was in California. After July 2016, the documented record about her stops.

Who we need to hear from.

Anyone who modeled for, worked with, or remembers The Agency Arizona between 2004 and 2010

Anyone who worked at, photographed, or remembers the J Bar or James Hotel scene in 2004 to 2006

Anyone in the American horse world, anywhere, who remembers a woman with a wealthy older out-of-state partner who paid for her horses

Anyone who knew Steve Hanson during his Scottsdale years and remembers the women in his social circle

Her, if she is reading

Ground rules for the comments.

Please do not post names of specific women in this thread. We are not running a public identification process. Real women who have nothing to do with this story could be harmed by speculation in a comment thread. If you have a name, a tip, a lead, or a memory, send it to us privately.

Our tip line is: PLAINSITEINVESTIGATES@proton.me. Anything you share will be held in confidence by default. We will not publish your name without your explicit permission.

Discussion of the documents, the timeline, the venue, the agency, the equestrian world, and the broader case is welcome. Public identification of candidate women is not.

Full piece, with all citations, EFTAs, timeline, and research paths at link to article above.

This is one tiny piece of one of the largest document releases in modern American history. The Hanson archive alone runs across thousands of pages. The Scottsdale woman is one of many women whose lives are described in this archive in men's words, with no chance to speak for themselves. We are looking for her first. We will keep going.

Thank you for everything you have brought to this work so far. Let's find her.

New York Times on Steve Hanson

The FBI has a victim statement naming him. He visited Epstein in jail. He brought his teenage daughter to Epstein's home. Why has Steve Hanson, Epstein's closest restaurant-world friend, never been charged, deposed, or even publicly questioned?