Businesswoman had made claims about journalist’s inclusion in a contact book owned by Jeffrey Epstein
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Andrew Neil says he has launched legal action against Jennifer Arcuri, the US businesswoman and former lover of
Boris Johnson, after she made claims about the veteran journalist’s inclusion in a contact book owned by the deceased paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
In a public spat that started with a disagreement over the effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines, Arcuri tagged the former
BBC presenter in a now-deleted tweet that read: “Citation for @afneil: Not only is he a paid for pharma puppet but here he is on the pedo elite train. Everyone knows what happened on that plane.” Alongside were the hashtags #itsOver and #ticktock, a picture of Neil arm in arm with a woman, and a screengrab from Epstein’s address book purportedly showing Neil’s name.