Rob Goldstone is a British-born music publicist and former tabloid journalist, who manages Russian Pop Singer, Emin Agalarov through Oui 2 Entertainment out of New York. In 2013, Goldstone was involved in the Miss Universe Pageant held in Moscow and managed Emin’s music video that featured Donald Trump and contestants from the Miss Universe Pageant. Emin Agalarov is the son of real-estate developer and owner of the concert hall where the 2013 Miss Universe Pageant was held.
On July 8, 2017, the New York Times reported that the Trump team met with Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer connected to the Kremlin. Goldstone reportedly set up the meeting that was held June 8, 2016, in Trump Towers with Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort. The premise of the meeting was that Natalia Veselnitskaya had potentially incriminating documents and information about Hillary Clinton.
Later, Goldstone claimed that he “reached out to Donald Trump Jr. and he agreed to squeeze us into a very tight meeting schedule… At the meeting, the Russian attorney presented a few very general remarks regarding campaign funding and then quickly turned the topic to that of the Magnitsky Act and the banned U.S. adoption of Russian children—at which point the meeting was halted by Don Jr. and we left. Nothing came of that meeting and there was no follow-up between the parties.”
On Monday, Goldstone’s Instagram account has gone private. However, the news was able to get some information first.
- Goldstone was in Russia two weeks before the meeting took place. In fact, he has actually been to Russia 19 times since 2013, per his Instagram account.
- In one post, Goldstone equated Moscow to be his “second home.”
- Another post from March 2016 had the quote “deep in discussion over dinner in Vegas” with a picture of him, Agalarov and Donald Trump.
- Goldstone even posted a picture of himself in a Make America Great Again had with words “my Iowa hat.”
- After Trump won the Presidential Election, Goldstone posted this photo of him in a Russia t-shirt with the words “hedging bets.”
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