By MICHAEL SLOVANOS
THE Erika Kirk nee Frantzve story grows more intriguing by the episode, probably none more so than Candace Owens latest offering from her and her team’s ongoing investigations.
Erika Frantzve, it was revealed, held a real estate licence in New York state and apparently worked for the upmarket Corcoran real estate company. One of their clients was Jeffrey Epstein, whose high-profile properties were later marketed and listed by The Corcoran Group, including his $22 million Palm Beach home.
Mrs Kirk, it turns out, was said to be the point person allocated by Corcoran to Next Management, also known as Next Model Management, a New York-based international modeling and talent scout agency, to arrange accommodation for the agency’s young women brought in from overseas.
Next Management also happens to be a Rothschild-owned company and according to Owens, was Jeffrey Epstein’s favourite modelling agency.
Ms Frantzve, more specifically, had the job of arranging apartments for the young models at what was described to Owens’ team as a large white building in downtown New York on 68th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenue.
Owens’ investigators, after airing Ms Frantzve’s New York real estate role, were sent photographs of a 16-storey apartment building fitting that description. It was owned by Mark Epstein, Jeffrey’s brother.
Last month, this building became the subject of a New York Post article headed: Exposed: “Inside the NYC condo where Jeffrey Epstein secretly kept his underage victims.” The building is at 301 East 66th Street, between 1st and 2nd Avenues.
According to the Post Epstein files and civil complaints and sworn testimony from more than a dozen girls that he trafficked, Epstein files showed that the building operated as a logistical hub for Epstein’s world. His staffers, foreign dignitaries and various wealthy guests also used the apartments.
Epstein’s address book referenced the building as having “apartments for models” and according to civil filings were “used to house young women brought in from overseas and provided with living quarters, transportation and other benefits to secure compliance.” A photo of an apartment provided to the Post was “courtesy of Corcoran”.
Owens has emailed Mrs Kirk asking her about her role with Next Model Management. There was no response. “Why wouldn’t she just simply answer an email and clarify her relationship with Next Model Management,” asked Owens.
The questions are justifiably asked because Erika Frantzve was running, between her numerous other roles, a charity called Everyday Heroes Like You. It had an outreach in Romania called Romanian Angels that “provides wish list gifts” for orphans with the assistance of the US Marine Corps.
Owens also revealed that Ms Frantzve partnered in Romania with another charity called United Hands Romania, run by Renee Crossman, who Romanian investigators discovered was a member of the Children of God cult, now known as The Family, which used young women offering sexual favours to recruit members. Crossman was not named in relation to trafficking.
But fact-checking sites have rushed to defend Mrs Kirk. Factually makes the following conclusion about suggestions that Ms Frantzve was connected to child trafficking in Romania, where, according to a BBC investigation, there were 100,000 children in orphanages in 1991, in the chaotic post-communist era.
“Multiple outlets that examined the claims — including WRAL, PolitiFact, People and Snopes — concluded there is no evidence that Kirk’s charity was linked to child trafficking or that she is banned from Romania, and described the viral narrative as misinformation amplified after high-profile attention to her public life.
“PolitiFact and WRAL specifically noted that while Kirk described sponsoring gifts for a named placement center, none of the referenced investigative pieces on trafficking mentioned her or her organization.”
Could it be that Mrs Kirk is who she says she is – a grieving widow and Christian mother of two working to continue the legacy of her husband? Could it be that she was just an innocent party frequently in the wrong places at the wrong time with the wrong people?
If you didn’t know anything about her background or the bogus FBI investigation of her husband’s assassination, or TPUSA’s total lack of interest in the investigation, you might believe her.
Mrs Kirk, as CEO and chairwoman of the half-billion-dollar political lobbying operation called Turning Point USA, is obviously too busy and “preoccupied with mission” to concern herself with questions about her distant past.
This past week Mrs Kirk was launching a bold plan to set up “Club Americas” in high schools across the nation. She was out at Arkansas with Governor Sarah Huckabee-Sanders launching the club in that state. The governor too, is obviously too busy to concern herself with the background of the TPUSA CEO.
Mrs Kirk urged the group of young people attending to join Club America, which, as an outreach arm of TPUSA, would defend them in their high schools from persecution for their Christian faith or even for just being white males.
“You guys are the heartbeat of this organisation, don’t get it twisted any other way,” she said. “This is just as much your legacy as it it mine, and my husband’s.”
As for her husband’s legacy, Charlie Kirk’s “favourite member of Congress”, Thomas Massie from Kentucky, is currently being targeted by President Trump, with TPUSA’s public support, for disendorsement.
Massie is one of only 33 US congressmen who do not receive funding from the America Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC) and his independent stance on issues including the cover-up of Epstein client list names, has been a constant aggravation for President Trump.
