12 Jan: Page Six: Canadian billionaire Frank Giustra providing luxe hideout for Prince Harry, Meghan Markle
By Emily Smith and Oli Coleman
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been hiding out at the home of Canadian billionaire Frank Giustra, whose close ties to the Clintons have created international controversy, Page Six can exclusively reveal.
Harry and Meghan refused to reveal the owner of the multi-million dollar waterfront mansion near Victoria, British Columbia — the place where they plotted their shock exit from the royal family...
In 2005, he and President Bill Clinton traveled together to Kazakhstan to meet with the former Soviet republic’s authoritarian leader. Days later, Giustra acquired shares in three of the country’s state-run uranium mines — a venture valued at more than $3 billion. Months after the Kazakh pact, Giustra reportedly gave a $31.3 million donation to the Clinton Foundation and has since publicly pledged he’ll donate another $100 million.
Both Giustra and Clinton have denied the former US president helped him cement the Kazakh deal, and Giustra later divested himself of the assets.
Then in 2016, as Hillary Clinton was running for president, the leaked e-mails of her campaign chairman, John Podesta, revealed that Giustra and Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim gave an endowment of $20 million in 2010 to the Clinton Foundation to set up the for-profit Haiti Development Fund, intended to give seed money to Haitian entrepreneurs after the devastating earthquake. Yet there is “almost nothing in the public record” showing what happened to the millions of dollars, according to reports at the time...
Meghan and Harry’s publicist, Sara Latham, is a former Hillary Clinton aide.
But sources told Page Six that the royal couple’s access to the mansion was set up through famed music producer David Foster, not Latham...
On Thursday, Meghan flew back to the waterfront bolt-hole to join baby Archie, who was under the care of a nanny, following a trip to London earlier in the week...
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DM says they can’t confirm Giustra is the owner. best to read for why there is secrecy & confusion:
13 Jan: Daily Mail: Canadian billionaire ‘who lent Harry and Meghan $14m holiday mansion’: Frank Giustra who co-founded top Hollywood movie studio Lionsgate and has controversial ties to Clintons is named as owner of lavish retreat
By Lauren Fruen and Josh Boswell
Ownership by Giustra would be at odds with what DailyMail.com was told by a realtor involved in the 2014 sale of the home. That person, who had to sign a non disclosure agreement, said it was bought by a billionaire who is neither Canadian nor or American for $18 million CAD - $14 million...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7879153/Mystery-billionaire-let-Harry-Meghan-stay-mansion-Canada-named-Clinton-donor.html