‘A woman of her time, in the worst way’: Industry, Ghislaine Maxwell and the Epstein scandal
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<p>An heiress helping to traffic young women to brutal billionaires: the finale of the banker drama used one of its characters to take on a huge real-life scandal</p><p>Just who is Yasmin Kara-Hanani? It’s a question that has dogged Industry’s trauma-logged heiress since the series began in 2020. “Who have I married?” wonders Henry Muck, Yasmin’s hapless aristocratic new husband about his ruthlessly ambitious bride in her Lady Macbeth era.</p><p>The season four fina
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‘A woman of her time, in the worst way’: Industry, Ghislaine Maxwell and the Epstein scandal An heiress helping to traffic young women to brutal billionaires: the finale of the banker drama used one of its characters to take on a huge real-life scandal J ust who is Yasmin Kara-Hanani? It’s a question that has dogged Industry’s trauma-logged heiress since the series began in 2020. “Who have I married?” wonders Henry Muck, Yasmin’s hapless aristocratic new husband about his ruthlessly ambitious bride in her Lady Macbeth era. The season four finale solves the mystery with a shocking Epstein-inspired arc. As the Tender scandal spirals, revealing the payment processor/wannabe bank as a front for Russian intelligence, the former Lady Muck cuts and runs from her marriage to Henry, as well as her job in communications at Tender. She is now carving a niche for herself trafficking young women to a transnational crew of brutal billionaires hellbent on breaking the social contract nation by nation. Turns out, Yasmin (Marisa Abela) is a millennial-style take on Ghislaine Maxwell. It’s a ruinous evolution perversely pitched as a dream realised. Yasmin’s dark storyline converges with the season’s excavation of the malign influence that ego and ambition have on the broader institutional corruptions that afflict media, politics, finance and the English upper class. She is a glam ambassador for the “pig-shit, thick lightweights without a single real belief except for their own self-advancement” that Labour minister Jennifer Bevan (Amy James-Kelly) rages over. As such, Yasmin’s fall makes her a woman of her time – in the very worst way. At its heart, Industry is a financialised coming of age for its protagonists, Yasmin, and whip-smart Black hedge funder Harper Stern, both rounding 30. For four seasons we’ve watched them struggle to elevate themselves in the Hobbesian hellscape of global finance in which no one – and no relationship – escapes market capitalisation. Here, there’s no wo...
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