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Robert Kraft has also faced several criminal charges. In 2019, he was charged in Florida with soliciting prostitution after he was captured on video engaging in sex acts with a worker at a massage parlour.

Kraft's actions were captured on video as part of a larger investigation into human trafficking and prostitution at several massage parlours in the area. Despite denying the allegations, Kraft was among those charged in connection with the investigation.

However, beyond the surface of a mere prostitution case, some voices in the public sphere raised concerns that the incident may be linked to sex slavery.

The gravity of the situation surrounding the human trafficking ring in Florida became increasingly apparent as Martin County Sheriff revealed distressing details.

The women involved were subjected to harrowing conditions, with no respite, as they were given no days off. Their lives were marked by a staggering cycle of exploitation, with each woman forced to service an average of about 1,500 men a year.

Questions arose regarding why a billionaire like Kraft would seek services from a regular masseuse in town, prompting deeper scrutiny into the circumstances surrounding the case.

In September 2020, Florida prosecutors dropped the prostitution charges against Kraft.

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[-] shittydwarf@piefed.ca 111 points 5 days ago

Everybody too busy denying trans girls places to pee to deal with the very real billionaire pedo ring

[-] Blibly@lemmy.world 32 points 5 days ago

Notice how all their pervy accusations against trans girls are things cis men like them are actually guilty of? It couldn't be more obvious what their game plan is

[-] Instigate@aussie.zone 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It’s always projection. It’s a line of thinking that goes something like “if I were pretending* to be a woman I’d use that to get into women’s bathrooms and have my way with women and girls, so that must be what they’re doing.”

*note: not what I think; that’s what these chucklefucks think.

[-] Blibly@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

No I got ya, and I agree. It's always them projecting their failures, fears, and perversions on others

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

Totally unrelated to his defense of Israel and censorship of people critical of them too...

/s

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The point of the culture wars is exactly to distract the plebs from the exploitation of everybody else by the present day monarchy and from how the Political and Judicial Systems in place give them de facto immunity for it rather than working for the good of all citiziens and treating them all the same as they're supposed to in Democracy.

We don't live in Democracy, we live in an Oligarchy were Political Ideologies have been replaced by performative arts and mass manipulation using lessons from psychology - in other words, by Theatre and Marketing.

This is especially true in the US, but most of Europe has also undone most of the work done in building Democracy after WWII and is by now significantly Oligarchic and a lot less Democratic.

The "fight" about transsexuality is a Punch & Judy act with both "sides" controlled by the same puppeteer.

[-] Akh@lemmy.world 80 points 5 days ago

They forgot to mention Kraft’s lawyer was recommended to him by Epstein

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 53 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Also the guy who censored Macklemore

https://www.wgbh.org/news/politics/2026-09-14/bob-kraft-explains-decision-to-urge-ouster-of-rapper-macklemore-from-ed-sheeran-tour

Along with a couple other NFL owners, who control the stadiums city/state residents bought them.

We need to just nationalize (citialize? Statize?) sports teams anyways, they should belong to the cities/areas they represent.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 50 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Kraft, the billionaire funder, saw these peaceful protests as “anti-Semitic” even though students are only protesting against the Israeli aggression and not the Jewish people in any way.

You know who's antisemitic? People like Robert Kraft who think being Jewish is about engaging in genocide. He won't allow that someone can hate genocide without hating Jews. What greater insult to the Jewish people and identity could there be?

[-] Judo@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

This is an angle that really needs to be more widely considered. Zionists definitely muddy Jewish identity and prevent it from existing distinct from Zionism

... Why were the charges dropped if they had a video of it?

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 37 points 5 days ago

Too rich to be persecuted.

[-] NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 30 points 5 days ago

*Prosecuted, pretty sure their money makes them incapable of being persecuted.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 5 days ago

This, but with money:

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 12 points 5 days ago

It was filmed without a warrant or something, making it inadmissible as evidence, and they were otherwise unable to prove it

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Ended up looking it up, they got the warrant by stating they were investigating an international trafficking ring. Krafts team argued that it wasn't a international trafficking ring, it was solicitation. So all 25 men caught were dismissed. The owner of the place and the manager were both convicted of solicitation of another basically.

So "we broke the law but you didnt write the warrant to catch us breaking that law, would you really justify a warrant to catch someone soliciting prostitution"

[-] Taldan@lemmy.world 27 points 5 days ago

Notice how the semantic arguments always work for the wealthy, but never the average person

A corrupt and two-tiered justice system

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 5 days ago

Good lawyers are expensive

[-] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 11 points 5 days ago

So if I murder someone on tape during an investigation for international trafficking, I get off scot free?

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 13 points 5 days ago

Depends. How much money do you have?

I guess they might not be able to use that film against you, so if that's the only evidence they have you may just walk.

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

Habeas corpus. No body, no crime!

cops would use the stupidest laws on the books to get evidence if they could.

But let's be real, if the owner and manager were convicted with said charges, why should the video surveillance of whom was involved in the acts not be admissable for use by the prosecutors to ensure that said admission of guilt doesn't catch all the stragglers who performed illegal acts.

What's the difference between raiding a home looking for an abducted child, finding they had multiple missing kids kept there and video footage of other people coming to the property and performing illegal acts on the kids. The footage should absolutely be admissable in my mind.

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 21 points 5 days ago

TIL, someone or some people have created an Epstein Wiki and lo and behold. There is a page about Robert Kraft.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago

This guy getting exposed because his feefees got hurt when Macklemore said not to genocide people is pretty great

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago

Glad you see this; Ed Sheeran is a coward, but Kraft is the real pro-genocide asshole forcing this whole situation. Nobody should own as much as the Epstein Class does, but they do and they flex that power.

Funny I've known how much it was asshole Kraft was before I was even class conscious. Why? My dad hates the cheating Patriots and did a deep dive on this guy. Truly a piece of shit, even if not as powerful as say, the Koch brothers.

[-] Unglue1857@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago

Mossad has kompromat on this guy. I guarantee it.

[-] chaogomu@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

Yes, we already know he's all over the Epstein files.

2016 had some financial shit between Kraft and Epstein, reportedly arranged by Ehud Barak.

Then in 2019 one of Epstein's lawyers, Jack Goldberger, joined Kraft's legal team.

[-] jownz@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

And he gave Putin a Super Bowl ring!

[-] prospero@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 days ago

To be fair, I'm pretty sure he let Putin hold it and he walked off with it like it was his lol

[-] funkreddit@lemmy.zip 10 points 5 days ago

Ed Sheeran cool with this guy but not for people standing up against genocide?? Fuk kraft and that lil ginger fuk

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 13 points 5 days ago
[-] green_goglin@thelemmy.club 2 points 5 days ago

Fact Check: TRUE

[-] lemmylump@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

Someone put Epstein's face on this fucking logo, cause Kraft's NFL team is now known as The New England Pedophiles.

[-] eurodyne@piefed.world 12 points 5 days ago

For a moment, he’s Barbra Streisand.

And what an unenviable position that is…

I’m very proud of my fellow Americans were mass rejection of vomitus Zionism

[-] TimboSlice@discuss.online 9 points 5 days ago

Yes, Robert Kraft is a massive sack of dogshit..

[-] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

TIL that promoting genocide is considered philanthropy

[-] Snowclone@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

I bet you they didn't drop charges on any of the sex workers. Just the wealthy johns and the wealthy sex trafficers.

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

yep. I'm also sure they had a private plane gassed and ready to fly him to Israel if it looked like he'd lose the case. They always do.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Isn't amazing how such a high, high percentage of the rich support supremacists claimimg that their race is superior to all others and thus it's their right to take everybody else's life.

(I reckon it's an extension of the same mindset that makes so many Rich people believe that they're superior individuals with their wealth being the proof of that, even when their wealth came from their parents rather than being built by them, plus the high levels of sociopathy amongst the ultra-wealthy means they don't really give a rats arse about things that would shock and disgust normal people, like children being explicitly targetted and murdered)

Whilst the old trope that "All Jews Are Rich" is anti-semitic bullshit, Rich Jews, just like the rest of that social strata are some of the biggest supporters of violent ultra-Racist ethno-Fascism around (and given the Power of Money being de facto the highest power under Neoliberal Capitalism, have a disproportionate impact in supporting it), and because in the present day Israel is the most well established, locally dominant, overtly racially supremacist (it's literally in their Constitution) and genocidal nation around, this translates into a very high number of very rich Jews supporting an extreme Genocide which is unpleasantly similar to what the NAZIs did, just with different ethnicities being deemed "vermin" and targetted for "removal".

[-] Babalugats@feddit.uk 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Pro Israel/genocide scum must have had some sort of meeting or group email that has them pre-empting anyone or anything that is anti-genocide. They also seem to have had a meeting where they use or sell other humans as commodities.

With that much money, influence and power, the only way that they can be beaten is if people jump on the boycotts and stick to them. Stand by the likes of Macklemore when he gets dropped (get refund on tickets etc), and actively condone and help bankrupt every single one of these fucks.

It's crazy how they are so fast and brazen at reverse-boycotting anti-genocide people or movements.

They shouldn't have the power, they have taken it and it's working for them. scum.

[-] Jackcooper@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago

Seattle Seahawks hurt him twice in 2026, lol

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