Tech billionaire allegedly kept spreadsheet of 5,000 women he had sex
with
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has participated in this Epstein-like sex cult
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Valley Cartel for over 10 years
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kill competitors and whistle-blowers.
By
Isabel
Vincent
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Whitefish, Mont., is known for fly fishing and hiking trails
studded with yellow Aspen trees. But after Silicon Valley billionaire
Michael Goguen took up residence in the Rocky Mountain town several
years ago, he transformed it into his private fiefdom: a dark banana
republic where he allegedly controls local law enforcement — and a
“harem” of young women.
The bombshell allegations, which also include claims of Goguen
ordering his security chief to kill detractors, are contained in a
lengthy civil complaint recently filed in United States District
Court for the District of Montana.
According to the court papers, Goguen, 57, employs hundreds of
residents in companies he controls, and owns a series of luxury “safe
houses” where he takes dozens of young women for sex. He has a
spreadsheet documenting his sexual encounters with 5,000 women, and
even outfitted a local bar he owns with a basement “boom boom”
room, which features a stripper pole. The underground enclave is
allegedly used “to maintain women for the purpose of committing
illicit sexual activity.”
Requests for comment from Goguen’s lawyer were not returned
Friday.
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The complaint, which seeks more than $800 million in damages, was
filed by four former employees who set up Goguen’s Amyntor Group
LLC, a Whitefish-based security contractor that had clients around
the world.
Now, Goguen is wrapped up in a mystery that just keeps getting
messier, as person after person has apparently tried to take him down
— only to end up taken down themselves.
Originally from Bedford, Mass., Goguen joined the venture
investment firm Sequoia Capital, based in Menlo Park, Calif., in
1996. It was already known for taking smart early bets on companies,
including Apple and Cisco, and would later generate big buzz — and
money — for getting behind brands that would become enormous:
Google, YouTube, PayPal and Instagram among them.
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Post/Mike Guillen
He had gotten a share of the Google deal and, as Bloomberg
reported, “frequently appeared on the Forbes Midas List for his
ability to find and fund winning technologies.”
But things came to a crashing halt in 2016 when his former
mistress Amber Baptiste, an exotic dancer from Canada, accused
him of “constant sexual abuse,” including “countless hours
of forced sodomy,” court papers say. He also demanded that she
refer to him as “king” and “emperor,” according to the
filings. In 2012 Baptiste said, she underwent surgery for a ruptured
anal canal after Goguen “forcibly sodomized her and left her
bleeding and alone on the floor of a hotel room in a foreign
country,” court papers claimed.
Goguen won a countersuit in the three-year legal battle,
eventually securing a restraining order against Baptiste from filing
any similar suits against him. But the allegations cost him his job
at Sequoia Capital in Silicon Valley, where he had been a longtime
partner.
At the time a Sequoia spokesman told TechCrunch that “while the
firm understood ‘these allegations of serious improprieties’ to
be ‘unproven and unrelated to Sequoia’ its management committee
had nevertheless ‘decided that Mike’s departure was the
appropriate course of action.’”
Despite the high-profile exit, Goguen is still worth more than $5
billion, according to a source.
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Goguen, began spending more time in Whitefish, a town of just over
7,000 residents, where he built a sprawling 75,000-square-foot
mansion with an additional 30,000-square-foot nuclear-grade bunker
that can accommodate up to 25 people for a year. He lives with his
fourth wife.
There, he runs several businesses, including Casey’s Whitefish,
a pub and restaurant, and Two Bear Capital, a firm that invests in
“early stage companies with disruptive innovations,” including
biotech and cybersecurity, according to his LinkedIn page. He also
funds Two Bear Farm and is behind Two Bear Air Rescue Foundation, a
non-profit that provides “world class aviation support” to law
enforcement and others for search and rescue, free of charge.
He started Amyntor Group LLC, a private defense contractor that,
at one point, was in line to create a private spy network for the
Trump administration, according to BuzzFeed.
Negotiations were stalled because Goguen could not obtain a
security clearance with the US government because of the allegations
of sexual abuse, court papers allege.
Meanwhile, another ghost from his past was about to haunt him.
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Bryan Nash was a former workout buddy from California, who had
reluctantly accompanied Goguen to bars and strip clubs.
In 2019, federal authorities indicted Nash on 10 counts of
stalking and extortion; according to the criminal complaint, Nash had
threatened to reveal unspecified secrets unless Goguen paid him $15
million, and also emailed members of Goguen’s family. In May 2020,
Nash pleaded guilty to blackmailing Goguen, and was later sentenced
to five years of probation.
This is where Matthew Marshall comes in.
A former Marine and alleged CIA operative, he once headed up the
Amyntor Group — and is now the lead plaintiff in the civil suit
filed against Goguen in February and amended in September.
Although Marshall, now 51, had been recruited by Goguen in 2013 to
set up the private security contracting business, he alleges in his
lawsuit that he soon became a reluctant fixer for the billionaire,
arranging the purchase of luxury homes and vehicles for members of
his harem, and spying on and intimidating his enemies.
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Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty Images
“Marshall was being asked to purchase, out of his personal
accounts, vehicles, jewelry,
earnest money deposits on
properties, and to provide cash or other items for
Goguen’s
mistresses, or as hush-money payoffs to Goguen’s acquaintances
and
employees who had ‘learned too much’ about Goguen’s
sexual misconduct and
crimes, and the Goguen Sexual Scheme,”
court papers allege.
Marshall also paid for luxury vacations, health care and education
expenses in exchange for women “to strip and have sex with him
[Goguen], to perform other deviant sexual acts with him, or to
maintain their silence as participants in Goguen’s sexual
misconduct,” court papers say.
Goguen’s girlfriends were given Marshall’s number and were
urged to call him directly if they had any problems. In one case, he
was dispatched to help a group of Playboy Playmates who were on
safari in Africa and lost their passports, court papers say.
Women who tried to complain to police about Goguen’s alleged
sexual assaults were met with unsympathetic law enforcement at
the Flathead County Sheriff’s Dept, some of whom were on
Goguen’s payroll, according to court papers — which also allege
that Goguen had set up a mechanism to listen in on police
communications.
When one of those women told a local police officer that Goguen
had allegedly sexually assaulted her, Marshall urged the officer to
go to the FBI. But the investigation was quashed after Goguen wined
and dined the cop, promising him luxury elk hunts in his private jet,
court papers say.
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Scott/Flathead Beacon
In 2018, the woman identified in court papers as Pam Doe, told
Whitefish police that Goguen had sexually assaulted her after giving
her cocaine and alcohol.
“He had sex with her and then paid her $1,200,” court papers
say. The investigation was handed to Detective Shane Erickson, who
did not follow through, court papers say.
“Det. Erickson openly shared with Marshall the fact that he was
spending time with Goguen, including having dinner at his house,
spending time on Whitefish Lake, going on a coyote hunt,” court
papers say. “Erickson also informed Marshall that Goguen had
offered to take him on his yearly week-long $20,000 elk hunt in
Colorado with private guides.”
Pam Doe later recanted her story with police after signing a
non-disparagement agreement with Goguen. It is not known if the
agreement included a financial settlement.
“After witnessing their relationship over several
years, Marshall came to understand that Goguen had placed Kim Doe and
her children in a position of utter dependence based on false
promises and emotional manipulation to satisfy his sexual appetite,”
Excerpt from the court papers
In another instance, Marshall was dispatched to help a married
woman, identified in court papers as Kim Doe. The wife of a prominent
Whitefish businessman, she allegedly had a long-term affair with
Goguen. When her husband found out about the trysts and began divorce
proceedings, Goguen gave her a credit card and bought her a
five-bedroom home in a nearby town. He told Marshall to pay the
charges, which amounted to $30,000 a month.
“After witnessing their relationship over several years,
Marshall came to understand that Goguen had placed Kim Doe and her
children in a position of utter dependence based on false promises
and emotional manipulation to satisfy his sexual appetite,” court
papers say.
Goguen’s old accusers also pop up in the new suit.
According to the court papers, Goguen once brought his daughters
and their teenage babysitter to Nash’s home, where he allegedly had
sex with the babysitter in a cottage on the property, according to
court filings. An outraged Nash called him a pedophile and reported
him to local police “to no avail,” court papers say.
The papers also claim Goguen had sex with Nash’s wife as they
were going through a divorce. Goguen allegedly had Nash followed by a
private detective and paid for the wife’s legal expenses, “causing
the divorce to be drawn out and having Nash incur more expenses,”
court papers say.
On Sept. 19, 2014, Goguen allegedly asked Marshall to arrange to
kill Nash in a text message on wickr, an encrypted instant messaging
platform: “He needs to be killed. I know that’s a VERY big ask
but we are in defcon 5. We can discuss details in person but we do
NOT have conversations about this on our cell phones. Wickr only…”
Marshall has claimed that he refused and tried to “dissuade
Goguen from going to extreme measures against his enemies.”
As for Baptiste, the former mistress, in the lead up to her 2016
suit against him, Goguen allegedly asked Marshall to help with “cyber
operations” and “immigration fraud,” urging him to find a way
to deport Baptiste back to Canada. If he could have her deported
“then his case with Baptiste would go away,” court papers said.
Once Baptiste’s lawsuit was filed, Goguen allegedly told
Marshall to act as his “general 100x more aggressive than Patton
was, to coordinate and make sure everything is happening that should
be happening — PR firms, private investigators criminal side, local
PR, everything,” according to court papers. Goguen allegedly asked
Marshall to hire a private investigator to follow Baptiste and use
the resources of the security company to target her.
According to court papers, Marshall observed “the psychological
pain and pressure” that Goguen “relentlessly applied” to
Baptiste after she filed her California lawsuit for breach of a $40
million settlement.
But on Nov. 10, Marshall — like Nash and Baptiste before
him — found himself suddenly in the hot seat.
He accepted a
plea agreement in federal court in Montana for wire fraud, tax
evasion and conning Goguen out of millions of dollars.
AP
The federal charges against Marshall allegedly came after he began
to complain about some of the extracurricular duties Goguen asked him
to perform in order to keep his harem under control.
Marshall’s own civil suit states that Goguen and his associates
filed false claims against the security expert, alleging that he
committed fraud in order to hide Goguen’s underground sexual
activities.
“Goguen … falsely told the FBI that Marshall did not have the
requisite experience, had stolen and then laundered funds from Goguen
and testified in other ways meant to obstruct law enforcement’s
discovery of Goguen’s sexual misconduct and the existence of the
Goguen Sexual Scheme,” court papers allege.
Marshall pleaded guilty to wire fraud, money laundering and tax
evasion. He said that he did not use money that Goguen had forwarded
to him for paramilitary missions to Mexico “or anywhere else.
Instead, he spent the money on personal expenses and loans and gifts
to friends and family members, among other expenditures,” the plea
states.
But according to the civil complaint, Marshall spent the cash on
Goguen’s orders and was not reimbursed by Goguen.
Marshall agreed to pay up to $3.5 million in restitution and is
scheduled to be sentenced next year.
At least one local authority has had enough of Goguen.
“This man has to be stopped,” said Bill Dial. The retired
Whitefish police chief sued Goguen in December 2019 for alleged
interference in his own investigation. “He’s a billionaire a la
Harvey Weinstein and Epstien. There’s a lot of people in this
community who know what he’s about and they’re afraid of him.”
A tech billionaire allegedly kept a spreadsheet of 5,000 women
he's had sex with, one of them a teenager he paid off to keep quiet,
despite losing his high-profile job over a sexual misconduct
allegation in 2016. Michael Goguen, a former partner at Sequoia
Capital who now heads his own firm, has been sued by four former
employees who say they helped manage his 'harem' of women. The
explosive lawsuit claims the investor met the women at various safe
houses or at a 'boom boom' room in the basement of a bar he owns in
Whitefish, a small town in Montana where he now lives. The married
billionaire, 57, asked his employees to arrange a hit on a former
associate who knew too much about his life, according to the
lawsuit. These are the latest allegations of sexual impropriety
leveled against Goguen, who in 2016 was accused of 'countless hours
of forced sodomy' by exotic dancer Amber Baptiste (inset). The
latest 135-page lawsuit was filed in February by former employees
of Goguen's Amyntor Group LLC, a security contractor, according
to the New York Post. Among the plaintiffs is Matthew Marshall, the
former head of Amyntor who quickly grew to become Goguen's
'right-hand man.' Marshall pled guilty to wire fraud and other
charges earlier this month after he pretended to be an elite member
of the Marine Corps and asked Goguen for money for 'off the books'
mission, according to the Flathead Beacon. Goguen, who is currently
married to his fourth wife, allegedly kept a 'harem' of 'numerous
women, including married women, strippers, and prostitutes,' whom he
bought homes for and used for 'illicit sexual activity,' the suit
claims. The investor, worth more than $5 billion according to the
New York Post, flew some of them in his private $42 million jet.
Goguen's former employees claim that Baptiste has Whitefish police
in his pocket.