{"id":66514,"date":"2026-02-17T06:07:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T11:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/hyatt-chair-thomas-pritzker-steps-down-over-epstein-links\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T06:07:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T11:07:33","slug":"hyatt-chair-thomas-pritzker-steps-down-over-epstein-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/hyatt-chair-thomas-pritzker-steps-down-over-epstein-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyatt chair Thomas Pritzker steps down over Epstein links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire says he exercised \u2018terrible judgment\u2019 in maintaining contact with sex offender and Ghislaine Maxwell<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire Thomas Pritzker has stepped down as executive chair of the hotel chain Hyatt, after revelations over his ties with the late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>Pritzker said he had exercised \u201cterrible judgment\u201d in maintaining contact with the sex offender and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/09\/ghislaine-maxwell-congress-deposition\">Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a>, who was convicted in 2021 for her role in recruiting and grooming underage girls.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/feb\/17\/hyatt-chair-thomas-pritzker-jeffrey-epstein-ghislane-maxwell\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire says he exercised \u2018terrible judgment\u2019 in maintaining contact with sex offender and Ghislaine Maxwell The billionaire Thomas Pritzker has stepped down as executive chair of the hotel chain Hyatt, after revelations over his ties with the late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Pritzker said he had exercised \u201cterrible judgment\u201d in maintaining contact with the &#8230; <a title=\"Hyatt chair Thomas Pritzker steps down over Epstein links\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/hyatt-chair-thomas-pritzker-steps-down-over-epstein-links\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Hyatt chair Thomas Pritzker steps down over Epstein links\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}