Woody Allen has spoken about his interactions with Jeffrey Epstein after being invited to numerous dinners on the residence of the paedophile financier.
Allen, 89, referred to as Epstein ‘charming and personable’ as he spoke about assembly the Duke of York and noticed David Blaine swallowing stay goldfish at his residence.
He revealed that he and his spouse of 27 years, Soon-Yi, had been invited by a publicist to Epstein’s home with ‘one of many British royals’ and various different celebrities from present enterprise.
‘We didn’t know Jeffrey in any respect then, however we see all these folks there and so they all embraced him, so we figured, “OK, he’s a considerable character,” ‘ he informed The Times.
The dinner occurred in December 2010, when Epstein had simply completed a jail time period for soliciting an underage lady for prostitution.
‘He informed us he’d been in jail and that he had been… falsely put in jail ultimately.
‘He informed us he was making an attempt to make up for it now by being philanthropic and giving cash to cutting-edge scientists and universities. He couldn’t have been nicer.’
In the interview, Allen stated his spouse – who’s the adopted daughter of his ex-wife Mia Farrow and her earlier husband Andre Previn – was eager to fulfill Prince Andrew, which is why they attended.
Soon-Yi, 54, informed the paper of the Prince: ‘I couldn’t stand him. He was such a dullard!’
The couple turned frequent friends on the home, saying that they had been usually joined by ‘illustrious folks, faculty professors, scientists, Nobel laureates’ and on some events comedians or magicians, together with David Blaine swallowing a fish then regurgitating it.
Allen added he by no means noticed him with youngsters.
‘We by no means, ever, noticed Jeffrey with underage women. He at all times had a girlfriend however by no means an underage girlfriend.’
He additionally added that the girlfriend they noticed him with on the dinner events was not Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell was Epstein’s companion, who’s serving a 20-year time period for intercourse trafficking.
Epstein was arrested once more on intercourse trafficking costs in July 2019 and located lifeless in his cell in a New York jail in August 2019.
The Duke of York stepped down from public life after the backlash over his friendship with Epstein.
He paid tens of millions to settle a civil sexual assault case with Virginia Giuffre, an accuser of Epstein who publicly detailed her account of being intercourse trafficked by the financier.
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