Manager turned jewelry designer — Brad Pitt and the early Robert Downey Jr, then custom pieces for celebrities. The Maxwell introduction was hers.
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By the time Jonathan Hare met her at Heidi Klum's Halloween party in October 2000, Loree Rodkin was mostly a high-end jewelry designer making custom pieces for celebrities. Before that she had been a manager — Brad Pitt for a time, and Robert Downey Jr in his early years, well before Iron Man. Hare's contemporaneous contact entries record her as 'Laura' and 'Laurie'; the name is corrected here and the correction is published in source record S-054.
She is the missing link in the Maxwell chain: Hare was telling her about the Santa Fe Institute, and she said he should meet Ghislaine Maxwell, because Maxwell spent a lot of time there. The friendship outlasted the party — dinner in San Francisco a few months later, and years of contact after.
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At the party, Hare talked about the Santa Fe Institute — as, by every account including his own, he talked about it to everyone. Rodkin's response was an introduction: you should meet Ghislaine Maxwell, she spends a lot of time there. The contemporaneous contact entry records her 'coming to SF in early December, staying at Sherman House.' The friendship began, Hare records, partly because she knew Christy Turlington, whom he spent several years admiring from an impractical distance.
They had dinner when she came to San Francisco. She stayed at Sherman House, the tiny five-star boutique hotel a block and a half from Hare's house on Steiner Street — a place with private entrances where people could come and go unseen. It was Bill Gates's primary place to stay in San Francisco in those days, or so she told him; the claim is hers, recorded as recalled.
She told Hare that Downey was amazing and extremely talented, and that she ultimately had to drop him as a client 'because I got tired of lying about his drug problems every time he got arrested.' The arrests are public record of that era, and Downey has spoken of those years himself, at length; the quotation is her stated reason as Hare recalls it, published as such.
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One party, several calls, a Santa Fe trip that never happened
Open →met through, at the partyAgent and manager to stars including Courtney Love; split his time between New York and LA
Open →representedKnown socially through Adam Dell; represented by Loree Rodkin; later turned up in the investment business
Open →met atOctober 2000 — photographed, published, and consistent with the account
Open →two steps from, in the chainFriend and patron — who let a broke man live her life for a weekend at a time
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