Sometimes It’s the Ones You Most Suspect
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The 2014 visit to Newport was not the first time Epstein tried to get his “girls” onto a Woody Allen set. Emails from the latest DOJ document release show that between 2010 and 2017, he attempted to influence or aid Allen’s casting process. “I’m with Woody Allen and [he is] looking for beautiful girls to cast. Any ideas?” he asked one modeling-agency owner, whose identity has been redacted, in a 2012 email. In another exchange with Faith Kates, the co-founder of the modeling agency NextModels, Epstein asks if she has any “aspiring actresses” in her stable, as “woody and i are having dinner on sunday.” (Allen and Kates did not return requests for comment.)
Allen and Epstein’s close friendship is well documented, with the former showing up in the disgraced sex trafficker’s files more than 3,000 times. Emails between the two show that they corresponded up until 2018, long after Epstein’s publicly known 2008 conviction of solicitation of a minor. Epstein also maintained a close relationship with Previn, Allen’s wife, regularly attending dinners at the couple’s home and doing favors for them, including donating $15,000 to an elite K–12 all-girls school on one of their daughter’s behalf and helping another get into Bard College in 2017 by introducing her to the college’s president, Leon Botstein. Emails also show that Epstein pulled strings to get Previn a tour of the White House in 2015. (Previn also did not respond to a request for comment.)
Ahem.