Actress-activist Lauren Holly, best known for playing Director Jenny Shepard in the TV series NCIS, reacted to the ongoing Jared Kushner controversy. The opinion is her own and does not represent factual/legal findings by the publication.“Jared Bin Lyin, aka SlenderMan, has a mercenary, a warlord, and a hitman on his payee list. He also looks like a dirty Q-tip,” Holly wrote on Threads.Lauren Holly mocks Jared Kushner. (Image via Threads)On October 22, a Vanity Fair article published a bombshell excerpt from freelance investigative journalist Matthew Cole’s new book Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East, which revealed that Donald Trump’s son-in-law was involved in alleged financial crimes tied to Israel, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia.According to the excerpt, Jared Kushner held two secret bank accounts in the Middle East in 2017, dubbed “Alpha” and “Beta.” The first was reportedly used to pay a few mercenary groups, a foreign warlord, and a hitman.Kushner, who is married to Ivanka Trump, has denied the allegations in a lengthy post on X, calling them “outrageous fabrications being presented as investigative journalism.”More about the ongoing Jared Kushner controversyAccording to Matthew Cole’s book excerpt, UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman opened a slush fund worth $10 billion and made Jared Kushner take charge of it in 2017. The goal was to help the first Trump administration with its foreign policy goals, including building a border wall between the United States and Mexico.Later, the slush fund fizzled out, and the two Middle Eastern leaders put roughly $2 billion into two separate accounts, "Alpha" and "Beta", also allegedly managed by Jared Kushner. The first, worth $750 million, was reportedly held at First Abu Dhabi Bank and overseen by the bank’s chairman and Mohamed bin Zayed’s brother Tahnoon bin Zayed.Meanwhile, "Beta" was set up by the Saudi Arabian Crown Prince and was worth $1 billion. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu allegedly learned of these accounts and encouraged Jared Kushner to have his funds deposited in the Israeli Central Bank instead.Russia reportedly knew about Kushner’s alleged ties to the Middle East and hacked into his iPhone. One of their foreign military intelligence/GRU operatives was apprehended by Dutch authorities traveling to the United Kingdom on a “spy mission.” They gave the Russian agent two choices: to work for the Netherlands Defense Intelligence and Security Services or get caught by British law enforcement.The GRU operative reportedly chose the first, and the Dutch got a “live feed” of Jared Kushner’s phone, keeping track of all his interactions with the Middle Eastern leaders.Back then, Kushner was a senior adviser to Trump and director of the Office of American Innovation. Now, he is the U.S. Special Envoy for Peace. Last Friday, he released a statement via X. He wrote:“@VanityFair posted an excerpt from a book containing outrageous and categorically false allegations. The allegations made by this author are completely insane and never happened. We denied every one of these claims on the record, yet the author failed to provide a single shred of evidence to substantiate any of them.”Jared continued to defend himself by writing:“During the period in question, I was one of the most scrutinized people in the world, subjected to intense media coverage, multiple congressional investigations, and a special counsel investigation. I voluntarily cooperated with these investigations, providing over 30 hours of testimony. None of these allegations ever surfaced, because none of these events ever happened.”Kushner also accused Cole of being a “deeply disturbed” individual, who was allegedly “acting with sinister intent.” He also described the book as a mixture of “fantasy, fiction, and advocacy.”His attorney, Chad Mizelle, has sent a notice to Vanity Fair. He also claimed in an X post:“Before publication, we sent Simon & Schuster a detailed 13-page letter responding to and categorically denying the extraordinary allegations made against my client, Jared Kushner, and challenging the total absence of supporting evidence. Vanity Fair has now published an excerpt amplifying these false and defamatory allegations,” Chad wrote.Meanwhile, Donald Trump told Fox News reporters on Friday that the allegations were “totally false” and “totally incorrect” and even dubbed them as “fake news.”Vanity Fair and Matthew Cole have yet to address the matter.