Esteemed global crisis public relations firm Sitrick & Company, whose clientele included Jeffrey Epstein and a litany of celebrities, was burglarized by thieves who stole company computers over the New Year’s holiday. The theft occurred mere hours before the release of a cache of long-sealed court documents pertaining to the admitted pedophile.
Michael Sitrick and the other occupants of the four-story building bearing his company’s name Sitrick & Co. discovered that their penthouse offices at 11999 San Vicente Boulevard were also broken into by the yet unidentified thieves.
Sitrick told Los Angeles magazine over the phone Thursday that “It didn’t cross my mind,” when asked if he was concerned about the timing of the burglary, which occurred just hours before a judge ordered the release of roughly 900 pages of documents from the 2015 federal civil case Giuffre v. Maxwell.
The documents provide fresh perspectives, and serve as a new delivery mechanism for the uninitiated, on the accusations levied against Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. They consist of unpublished deposition transcripts, search warrant records from the Palm Beach Police, and the identities of potential witnesses to their illicit activities. The new information was disclosed as part of a defamation lawsuit filed by the attorneys for Virginia Giuffre, who was a minor at the time she claimed to have been trafficked by Maxwell to prominent men, including Prince Andrew.
“It has to be a coincidence,” Strick believes, and claimed that there were no Epstein records in his office. He further stated that he does not believe the criminals specifically targeted his company.
“There were several offices in the building, in addition to ours, which were broken into and robbed. All of our computers are all password and dual factor protected and encrypted. It’s state of the art,” he said. “No one is getting into them.”
According to court records, Miami attorney Roy Black retained Sitrick to represent Jeffrey Epstein in 2005. This was three years prior to the financier’s guilty plea to a charge of procuring sex from a 14-year-old minor, which was reached in a secret plea agreement mediated by prosecutors. Despite this agreement, dozens of young women had testified that they were assaulted by the billionaire at his West Palm Beach residence.
Sitrick, however, disclosed that he commenced collaboration with the convicted pedophile in 2011 subsequent to the publication of an article by the New York Post that featured Epstein and Prince Andrew and commenced as follows: “Meet Manhattan’s raunchy new odd couple — the prince and the pervert.” A photograph of the disgraced billionaire and Prince Andrew strolling through Central Park accompanied the exposé detailing their relationship. Epstein had just confessed to abusing a minor criminally when the exposé ran.
The extent of Sitrick’s involvement in crisis management during the police investigation remains uncertain, and the public relations expert asserts that they never shared a room together prior to the investigation. A contract between Sitrick and Jeffrey Epstein, which is disclosed in court documents, indicates that the disgraced financier began paying the crisis expert a monthly retainer of $30,000.
Epstein, who allegedly committed suicide in 2019 while awaiting prosecution on federal charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy, was not the only controversial client of Sitrick, according to authorities.
Patrick Soon-Shiong, the biotechnology billionaire and owner of the Los Angeles Times, is also represented by Sitrick, whom he retained during his involvement in two scandals in 2017. He has also represented celebrities like Halle Berry, Paris Hilton and Christian Slater.
Los Angeles described his firm as follows:
The combination of elegance and pugnaciousness has attracted a vast assortment of clients, ranging from the embattled (the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles) to the weird (the Kabbalah Center)…to the arrogant (the Getty Center) to the overexposed (rock and roller Tommy Lee) to the shady (Carl Freer, the gun-wielding Swedish national whose business partner, Bo Stefan Eriksson, was jailed in April after totaling a $1 million Ferrari Enzo in Malibu).
Sitrick is perplexed as to who might have broken into his penthouse office, given that neither an employee key card nor any indication of forcible entry were present.
“It’s very strange,” he said. “How did they get into the building?”
Ryan DeLarme is an American journalist navigating a labyrinth of political corruption, overreaching corporate influence, a burgeoning censorship-industrial complex, compromised media, and the planned destruction of our constitutional republic. He writes for Badlands Media and is also a Host and Founder at Vigilant News. Additionally, his writing has been featured in American Thinker, the Post-Liberal, Winter Watch, Underground Newswire, and Stillness in the Storm. He’s also writes for alt-media streaming platforms Dauntless Dialogue and Rise.tv. Ryan enjoys gardening, kung fu, creative writing and fighting to SAVE AMERICA
