Lauren Holly, the actress known for playing Director Jenny Shepard on the long-running CBS series NCIS, has publicly criticized Jared Kushner in a social media post that directly references explosive allegations published in Vanity Fair. Holly posted her comments on Threads, where she used two nicknames for Kushner and pointed to a list of payments described in a newly published book excerpt.
What Lauren Holly Posted on Threads
Holly’s post was blunt and short. She wrote:
“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.”
The comment was made on Threads, the text-based social platform run by Meta. Holly did not cite a specific source in the post, but her wording matches details from a Vanity Fair article published on October 22, 2026. The article contained an excerpt from a forthcoming book by investigative journalist Matthew Cole. The publication notes that Holly’s opinion is her own and does not represent factual or legal findings by the outlet.
The Vanity Fair Excerpt Behind the Post
The excerpt comes from Matthew Cole’s book, “Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East.” Vanity Fair published the excerpt under a headline about Kushner’s hacked phone revealing secret negotiations and more than $700 million in transfers.
According to the excerpt, Jared Kushner held two secret bank accounts in the Middle East in 2017. The accounts were labeled “Alpha” and “Beta.” The Alpha account, reportedly worth $750 million, was allegedly used to pay a few mercenary groups, a foreign warlord, and a hitman. The Beta account was worth $1 billion and was connected to Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
The excerpt further claims that UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed and the Saudi crown prince set up a slush fund worth $10 billion and placed Kushner in charge of it. The stated goal was to help the first Trump administration with foreign policy goals, including building a border wall between the United States and Mexico.
Dutch intelligence reportedly gained access to Kushner’s iPhone after a Russian GRU operative was caught and chose to work with the Netherlands instead of facing prosecution in the United Kingdom. The Dutch service then had a live feed of Kushner’s phone activity, according to the excerpt.
Jared Kushner Responds to the Allegations
Jared Kushner has firmly denied the claims. In a lengthy post on X, he called the allegations “outrageous and categorically false” and said they “never happened.”
“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. No bank statements, wire transfer records, account numbers, transaction dates, or other verifiable details were provided to support these extraordinary accusations,” Kushner wrote.
Kushner also said he was one of the most scrutinized people in the world during the period in question. He stated that he cooperated with multiple congressional investigations and a special counsel investigation, providing over 30 hours of testimony, and that none of the allegations surfaced because “none of these events ever happened.”
Attorneys for Kushner sent a formal notice to Vanity Fair and its parent company, Condé Nast, calling the published claims “false” and “defamatory.” The letter, posted on X by attorney Chad Mizelle, demanded that the excerpt be removed from the publication’s website and all other platforms.
Why Kushner Is Called SlenderMan
The SlenderMan comparison is not new. The nickname began circulating in January 2020 after Kushner appeared on the cover of TIME magazine. Social media users compared his tall, thin appearance and facial expression to the fictional internet character Slender Man, a tall, faceless figure from online horror stories. The comparison spread widely on Twitter at the time, with users asking whether Kushner was “SlenderMan.”
The nickname has since appeared in commentary about Kushner across social media and in some opinion pieces. A New York Times book critic also used the comparison in a 2022 review of Kushner’s memoir, describing him as “the White House’s very own Slenderman.”
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Lauren Holly’s Record of Political Comments
Holly’s post about Kushner is not her first public political comment. The actress has been outspoken about Donald Trump and his supporters in recent months. In February 2026, she criticized her former “Any Given Sunday” co-star Dennis Quaid for supporting Trump, writing on Threads, “At least I got to slap him real hard in Any Given Sunday.” When another user asked if she could “slap the whole regime really hard,” Holly replied, “I would if I could.”
In September 2026, Holly also called Trump a “liar” over a claim about his experience on 9/11, questioning where the firefighters were who supposedly lifted him out of the rubble.
Her post about Kushner follows the same pattern of direct, personal criticism. The post does not include a call to action or a link to the Vanity Fair article. It stands as a short reaction from a television actress with a long career in American entertainment.
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