🇺🇸🇷🇺 OPINION: The dots in Jeffrey Epstein's 2019 emails to Michael Wolff form a tantalizing web of speculation At the center of Epstein's question to Michael Wolff is none other than Dmitry Rybolovlev. He's the Russian fertilizer billionaire who bought Trump's Palm Beach mansion (Maison de L'Amitie) in 2008 for $95M. That's more than double what Trump paid just 4 years earlier. Fast-forward to 2017: Rybolovlev consigns Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, which he bought in 2013 for $127.5 M, where it sells for a staggering $450.3M. That's the highest price ever paid for a work of art. The buyer? A proxy for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS): Prince Bader bin Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Farhan al-Saud, acting on MBS's behalf (confirmed by U.S. intelligence and multiple reports). Epstein, in his typos-riddled emails, smells a rat; his theory? The over-the-top price was a disguised payoff: MBS funnels cash through Rybolovlev as gratitude, or quid pro quo, for Trump's 2019 veto. That's the one congressional resolution that ended U.S. support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen and his broader pro-Saudi stance on Iran policy. It's seductive on paper: A Russian oligarch with a Trump property deal, an absurdly inflated art sale to the Saudis, and U.S. foreign policy favors align suspiciously. In the end, 3 powerful figures were spun into geopolitical intrigue by a predator who thrived on deception.