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Oct 18, 2022Liked by Frederik Gieschen

making it a habit to re-read your posts. this piece is underrated

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Thank you. I should probably re-read it as well at this point.. :)

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haha

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May 13, 2022Liked by Frederik Gieschen

My favourite article. Thank you for both the finance and moral lesson. :) I am sending it to everyone in my finance class. I read the biography while it was on Apple Books and they removed it :/ so you have a monopoly on Riklis lore.

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Thank you! The autobiography is a wild ride..

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He was a very interesting man. I met him when I began dancing in Crazy Girls at the Riviera and spent quite a bit of time with him until he married his Israeli wife in 2010. There will never be another like him.

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Among the many facts you get wrong is that Riklis arrived in the US as a "penniless immigrant". The fact is he was brought into the United States as a spy and installed at Ohio State which is the same university that Leslie Wexner attended. Many other errors in your history on Riklis. Connect Riklis to others such as Robert Vesco, Bernie Cornfeld, Meyer Lansky (et al) and even Queen Elizabeth and I will come back and leave a better comment/review. -Kirby Sommers, former s** slave to Ira Riklis, son of Meshulam Riklis

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I am not going to share that with you or anyone else because my life continues to be in danger. However, a lot of the information here is inaccurate.

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Meshulam Riklis did not arrive in the United States "as a penniless immigrant" as you state in your article. There are other errors, too. Riklis came from a well to do family and was transferred to the United States (he had been a spy during WWII) by the same forces in the U.S. government that oversaw the making of Jeffrey Epstein. -Kirby Sommers, former sex slave to Ira Riklis (Rik's son).

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Hi Kirby,

I was going by his autobiography which may well be inaccurate and self serving in describing his background. Do you have a source regarding his relationship with the US government/intelligence?

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There are many inaccuracies in the autobiography that his wife (Tali) wrote. I only noticed that the timeline was off.

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