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© 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. There was no other events series like Innotech, none.”, She continued: “I always made sure that Boris got a win out of my events … Every event that he came to had a strategic advantage for him.” But it is still unclear what strategic advantage Johnson gained. She also founded Playbox, a video social network for entrepreneurs. Click here to upload yours, TikTok bans ALL QAnon conspiracy content in disinformation crackdown, Baywatch star's homeless ex-wife found 2 years after going missing, Whitmer slams Trump crowd chanting 'lock her up' after kidnapping plot, Hope Hicks joins Trump at rally after both recovered from Covid-19, Trump and Don Jr slam 'terrible' debate moderator as Democrat ties probed, © 2020 THE SUN, US, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED | TERMS OF USE | PRIVACY | YOUR AD CHOICES | SITEMAP, It has been reported that Boris and Jennifer are close friends. The central London building where Hacker House has registered its company address. It also emerged that Jennifer campaigned for Johnson to be mayor for a second term and posted photos of him on social media. ", On 17 October 2020, Arcuri confirmed that her relationship with Johnson had been sexual. Speaking to GMB on Monday, October 7, Jennifer said: "I think it's unfortunate that a good friend... now I'm dragged into the middle of this horrific scandal and the answer I give will be weaponised against this man. Hacker House, which offers cybersecurity training, states on its website: “Taught by world-renowned ethical hackers, our students are plunged head-first into real world cyber-attack simulations and are assessed across a variety of practical assignments designed to cover every angle. Businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri, 35, called him a “jester of romance”. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). Mr Johnson has insisted that he had done nothing wrong. It’s pretty much out there.”, She added: “At the time I cared for him very deeply, but I never used the L word. Hahaha. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. Johnson told The Andrew Marr Show last week that he had no interest to declare over Arcuri. Jennifer Arcuri’s company Hacker House was awarded a £100,000 cyber-skills grant intended for UK-operating businesses in January even though … Her other business, Innotech, was handed more than £26,000 of public funds while Johnson was London mayor, prompting questions over whether the company received preferential treatment because of her friendship with him. When the Guardian visited the Grade II-listed office, based above a Marks & Spencer on Fleet Street overlooking St Paul’s Cathedral, and asked to speak to someone from Hacker House, a reporter was told by a receptionist: “That’s a virtual office so they’re not actually based here.”, Asked how long the company had been using the address, the receptionist said: “They’re fairly new … [they registered] I think just a couple of days ago.”, The virtual office, which is operated by Regus, could not yet receive post for Hacker House as it had not verified its account, she said. DCMS were far more concerned with fulfilling that quota and that need, so they came to us.”. I think perhaps the most important point is that I'm very, very proud of everything we did in London. After moving to the UK in 2011, she launched a career in tech. But she also claimed the DCMS suggested she should apply for the funds in the first place. Arcuri told ITV that her then friend Milo Yiannopoulos, the rightwing commentator, suggested she apply for the job of chief executive of Tech City, an organisation set up by Downing Street to champion technology companies in London. Arcuri insisted the company was based in the UK and had eight UK staff when the money was awarded. [17] Hacker House received a grant from the UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund in 2019, sharing £500,000 with three other projects. Mr Johnson is believed to have delivered a keynote speech at Innotech's first summit in 2012, when Arcuri was 27. Warman said in the Commons on Wednesday that the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) had done the “usual due diligence” on Hacker House, adding that it had “a British phone number”. [4], Arcuri's grandfather was lawyer Richard Cates. Now it has emerged that on Wednesday the company re-registered its address with Companies House from an old rented flat in Macclesfield, where Arcuri and her husband stayed before moving to the US in 2018, to a “virtual office” in central London where none of its staff appear to work. But just who is the ex-model who has finally admitted she had an affair with the PM? 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. Boris Johnson’s friend’s firm re-registers address with eligibility for grant under scrutiny, First published on Thu 26 Sep 2019 09.55 EDT. The owner of the building told The Sunday Times she referred to him as "one of her best friends". ", We pay for your stories! Johnson intervened to allow her onto three trade mission trips. She lived in London from 2011 to 2018, before moving back to California. But the Sunday Times reported that Arcuri boasted of still having a letter of recommendation from Johnson. She began her career as Radio Disney DJ Razzle Dazz at the Walt Disney Company, according to her profile on IMDb. She told the Daily Mail she had "every right" to go on the jet-set trade missions with Boris when she lived and worked in London. On October 7, she appeared on Good Morning Britain telling host Piers Morgan that she bonded with the now-PM over their "mutual love of classic literature". Johnson is accused of granting public funding to Jennifer, whose flat he's said to have visited "several times". Jennifer Arcuri is a former model who is now an entrepreneur in the tech world, Arcuri is said to have described Boris Johnson as 'one of her best friends', Jennifer Arcuri says she 'doesn't need him to call me right now' as she says Boris Johnson needs to focus on leaving the EU. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. For other inquiries, Contact Us. Last modified on Mon 7 Oct 2019 15.55 EDT. According to her Twitter profile, she is also the founder of Hacker House as well as an entrepreneur, cyber security expert and producer. American tech entrepreneur, Jennifer Arcuri has admitted to having an affair with Boris Johnson, in an interview with the Daily Mail. At university, she studied politics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, theatre at Pace University in New York, filmmaking at the University of Southern California, and film at the American University in Paris for a summer. She said: “My company has developed an extremely effective hands on hacking course, that allows people to enter industry based on the skills they achieve in my course. Questions remain about Boris Johnson’s relationship with businesswoman after her ITV appearance, Mon 7 Oct 2019 07.43 EDT The tech company run by the US businesswoman whose friendship with Boris Johnson has sparked a conflict of interest row hastily set up a new office after it emerged it was facing an investigation over its eligibility for a six-figure taxpayer-funded grant. Other companies organising tech conferences in London at the time were puzzled by why Johnson only seemed to talk at Arcuri’s event. [14][15], In 2016, she headed the Tech London Advocates working group on cyber tech. She is the founder of Hacker House, The InnoTech Network, and UB Film and co-founder of Osaka Joe’s Sushi Bar. Jennifer Arcuri infers that Prime Minister Boris Johnson has fathered five children GOT a story? Despite the length of the exchange, though, significant questions remained for the prime minister. [32] Later that month, the Greater London Authority referred Johnson and his actions in the matter to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) "so it can assess whether or not it is necessary to investigate the former mayor of London for the criminal offence of misconduct in public office".

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