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Quintessentially is a concierge service for "ultra high net worth individuals." It was founded by Queen Camilla's nephew Ben Elliot. Even on the face of it, it sounds pretty bizarre and suspect. They psychoanalyze their clientele to provide curated experiences, for instance they once provided a client with a three month "kidnap experience". Basically they are there to help billionaires with fried dopamine receptors just feel something. “People are demanding that they are taken to the edge of their normality,” Co-founder Aaron Simpson says.

Ben Elliot is in Epstein’s black book, as is his Quintessentially colleague Luca Del Bono. Both Elliot and Del Bono have the Quintessentially title directly under their names in the black book. When Quintessentially teamed up with Deutsche Bank to roll out Quintessentially Platinum - described as their most personal, exclusive service yet - for clients of Deutsche Bank Wealth Management, Jeffrey Epstein was initially one of the first members to get the nomination in January 2015. Ghislaine Maxwell attended Quintessentially US Launch Party in 2003 at the art auction house Sotheby’s. Ben Elliot has been photographed at Maxwell's house and at other events with her.

In 2017 there was media coverage that Quintessentially was building a superyacht called the Quintessentially One. It was to be “the world’s largest floating private membership club.”

Five billionaires paid 10 million euros towards the building cost of the superyacht in return for their own private suit on board. Co-founder Aaron Simpson emphasized that they would be remaining anonymous “until a bottle of champagne hits the hull.” The archived website for the Quintessentially One explains that “The jewels in crown of the super yacht are 12 stunning triplex apartments located on the top decks. These are available for sale to those looking for the most exclusive onboard residences in the world.”

Now, in an article written to exonerate himself from his association to Maxwell, a guy named Nicholas Coleridge wrote “The last time I ran into Ghislaine was at a Sotheby’s preview. She was as friendly and engaging as ever. She told me she was working on a project to build a luxurious floating country in the middle of the Pacific. The advantage would be zero income tax and zero inheritance tax, but you could only become a citizen if you had many hundreds of millions of dollars.”

Was this project of Ghislaine’s the Quintessentially One? While she referred to her project as a “floating country”, Quintessentially spokespeople would repeatedly refer to it as “the world’s largest floating private membership club” with residences on board for sale - and Quintessentially has been accused in the past of assisting members with offshore tax avoidance.

The last time the Quintessentially One got any mainstream press coverage was in 2017, but in a YouTube interview from June 2019, Aaron Simpson confirms that the plans were still ongoing for the world’s largest floating private membership club at that time. Wayback Machine collection data (see graphic representation above) for the Quintessentially One website came to a curious halt months later in the last quarter of 2019, when Epstein had just died and Maxwell was on the run. What happened? Was the project scrapped and the site nuked? Why in late 2019?

Oh, and as recently as February 12th, 2026, news broke that Quintessentially co-founder Aaron Simpson is currently in court battling allegations of sexual assault, sex trafficking, money laundering and tax evasion. Ben Elliot has declined to comment.

I discovered all this while investigating a New York elite sex club called The Box that I have been able to intimately link to Epstein and Maxwell. The Box was reportedly be the onboard nightclub and provide the entertainment on the Quintessentially One. I go even deeper and present the ties between Epstein/Maxwell, The Box, Quintessentially, and much more in this article I just published: https://jamiefcrawford.substack.com/p/the-big-club-jeffrey-epsteins-connections

President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked King Charles III for his historic April 28 address to the U.S. Congress, calling the monarch’s appeal for transatlantic unity “exactly what is needed” to secure a lasting peace.

Illustrative Photo: King Charles III meets with President Volodymyr Zelensky at Buckingham Palace on March 17, 2026 (Aaron Chown/Pool/Getty Images).

Honoring the legacy of Princess Diana, @RoyalFamily and HRH King Charles III and Queen Camilla Royal First Official, Commission trip here to the United States. 🤍

Her Grace, Princess Diana, didn’t just wear the crown—she used her voice to stand with those the world overlooked, especially during the #HIV/#AIDS crisis.

Because of her courage, conversations changed. #Stigma was challenged. Lives were touched.

As a CNA & community health advocate, I carry that mission forward every day—supporting access to care, education, and compassion for all.

We can’t forget where this fight started… and we can’t stop now.

LaQueen Arleen Battle, CNA
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
United States of America
Thursday, April 30th, 2026

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