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She left the private office later that year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
Years later, Epstein would help Nikolic negotiate his 2013 separation from Gates’s private office.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
In 2009, after she learned that Nikolic was moving to a role at Gates’s private office, she took him to lunch and delivered what amounted to a pitch for Epstein, according to Nikolic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
During the first months of Guardiola in charge in 2008, the right side of the pitch was the Argentine's corridor, his private road to goal.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026
He didn’t know her, and more important, if she went to Maya-Jade’s private school, she wouldn’t know him.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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