Epstein Secrets

unctions. Although the squalid chain of events that would end with Epstein taking his own life in prison had not yet begun, the magazine writer, Vicky Ward, got an inkling that something w'asn't quite right. One young woman recalls being summoned by Ghlslalne Maxwell to a concert at Epstein's townh

ar,' she wrote. 'These were not women you'd see at Upper East Side dinners... many seemed foreign and dressed a little bizarrely.' A source told Ward that at another cocktail party, also thrown by Maxwell and attended by Prince Andrew, the room was tiled with young Russian models', adding: 'S

prison had not yet begun, the magazine writer, Vicky Ward, got an inkling that something w'asn't qui

own from offi- cial engagements looks even more of a wise move. With the benefit of hindsight, the prompt action — brokered by Prince Charles and Prince William — has been the only moment when the royals So will she clear Prince - or damn him? have been on the front foot. Andrew's stubborn failure to s

ck, the press baron and 143 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021999 --- PAGE BREAK --- JAMES PaTTERSON Epstein’s Palm Beach neighbor—who was also a step-uncle of Vicky Ward's husband —to ask Ward to drop the story. But Ward was tenacious, and what she came back with was dynamite. More interesting and much more salacious th

re serious about hi: heavily on him this montl to Vicky Ward, an English ity Fair. He'd meant for it preg

ned. R _ Vicky Ward: October 2002 4 pstein went out of his way to spin the Vanity Fair story to his own ends, and soon after she got the assignment, Vicky .dWard’s phone began to ring off the hook: calls from Ace Greenberg and Jimmy Cayne, the current head of Bear Stearns; from Les Wexner; from academics, scie

dealings with Jeffrey — Epstein had already emerged. At a dinner party at Epstein'’s town house, the prince dished” about the wedding of his nephew Prince William to Kate, } Middleton. ‘ | “He was amused that his dinner companions were SO inter is 224 ested in every detail,” a g gossip columnist. “Whe Qu

o me. I owerful friends might send some- killed. ward, out of concern for my safety stayed in Australia