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Peggy Siegal and Jeffrey Epstein: The Publicist Who Helped Rebuild a Predator’s Social Network · The Epstein Chronicles

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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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Epstein Chronicles. Whenever I hear people say that Jeffrey Epstein
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was just some random predator who had no help from anybody,
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who just had some disgusting proclivities, it really makes me
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want to put my head through a wall, because there
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were a lot of people around this dude who are
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helping him out, whether that was providing cover, whether that
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was providing a refurbishment of his stature and his image,
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or whether that was opening doors for Jeffrey Epstein to
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walk through into so called high society. And in this episode,
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that's what we're going to be talking about, and we're
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going to be talking about the woman who helped open
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those doors for him, and that woman is Peggy Siegel.
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Now we've talked about Peggy Siegel plenty of times in
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the past here on the podcast, and she was some
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that really opened a lot of doors into social circles
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for Jeffrey Epstein. And I think it's super important that
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people understand that without people like Peggy Siegel, there would
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have been no way that Jeffrey Epstein could have done
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anywhere near the amount of damage that he ended up
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doing because he would have ended up getting caught. If
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he was just some sick degenerate, he would have had
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the protection or the cover, and inevitably somebody would have
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come forward and routed him out, just like it happened
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in real time. The problem is he was protected, and
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the reason he was protected is because the people like
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Peggy Siegel. This article was published by Fox News and
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the headline A list publicist reveals Epstein's baby Mama search
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one hundred thousand dollars gift five bombshells from Peggy Seagulls
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tell All. This article was authored by Lauren Overholtz. Hollywood
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power broker. Peggy Siegel saw her career unravel after her
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ties to Jeffrey Epstein came on her scrutiny following the
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finance here Pedophiles twenty nineteen arrest on sex trafficking charges.
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Roughly five thousand emails between Segel and Epstein sent between
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two thousand and nine and twenty nineteen, were released by
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the Department of Justice earlier this year. The correspondence between Siegel,
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who represented clients such as Steven Spielberg, Harvey Weinstein, and
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Barry Levinson, shed new light on the Paris seemingly symbiotic relationship. Look,
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there's no doubt Peggy Siegel was somebody that was very
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close to Jeffrey Epstein and somebody that opened a lot
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of doors and had certainly not lost on me that
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she also represented Harvey Weinstein's dirty ass. I mean, if
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you're so unscrupulous that you're gonna represent people like Weinstein,
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there's no doubt that you'd have no problem being involved
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with Jeffrey Epstein either. Siegel opened up about what she
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gained from her association with Epstein, who died by suicide
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in twenty nineteen while awaiting trial allegedly. You notice how
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confidently they say that, which is crazy as hell considering
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everything and we're going through right now, all the documents,
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all the witness testimony, and the evasiveness of the guards.
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I don't know how anybody could look at this and say, oh, yeah,
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he killed himself and say that confidently. The revelations offer
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a closer look at the Hollywood publicist role in Epstein's
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social orbit and the fallout that followed. Well, here's an idea.
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Don't associate with scumbags. If it was just work, that's different.
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Right Again, Look, people have jobs all the time that
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bring them into contact with scummy people. So I'm not
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going to malign somebody if you know they have a
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job as like a lawyer, and they're defending a dirtbag,
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that's their job. It's when they go over the line,
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it's when they cross into that gray area, right when
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they stop becoming an officer of the court and so
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becoming an associate. And with Jeffrey Epstein, a lot of
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his lawyers were in that gray area. And of course
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the same goes for somebody like Peggy Siegel. Jeffrey Epstein
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gifted Peggy Siegel one hundred thousand dollars for a seventieth
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birthday in twenty seventeen, roughly two years before the financier
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pedophile was arrested on charges of sex trafficking miners. I
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had no problem taking his money, she told New York magazine.
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He had lots of it. Oh well, in that case,
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let's just take money from whoever. But you know what
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the truth is, Peggy Siegel is not somebody who's unique here.
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That's how they all felt, that's how they all still feel.
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And when the next Jeffrey Epstein shows up, and he
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inevitably will it'll be the same people with the same
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excuses once again. Oh, I had no idea. We didn't know.
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Nobody told me that he was a sick guy. And
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it'll just go on and on and on. Siegel laid
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out her plan on how she was hoping to spend
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the money in an email to Epstein. Thirty thousand was
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set a s for a birthday party she wanted to
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host in Southampton with seventy guests. Another fifteen thousand was
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to be donated to de Elton John's AIDS Foundation so
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she could attend a party at his house in June.
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Siegel also revealed that she used some of the huge
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sum to supplement her apartment renovation, as she was looking
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for a temporary fix while she awaited an amazing brown
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and beige leopard rug that is wal to wall carpeting
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for my whole apartment and being made in France. Oh well,
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talk about class. Let me just get some wal to
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wall beige leopard rug and throw it on my floor.
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I mean, what does she think she is Tony Montana,
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Say hello to my little friend. When the apartment gets done,
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You're my first visitor, she wrote at the time. How cute,
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What a great little friend couple. These two were. While
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Peggy Siegel claimed she never went to Jeffrey Epstein's island
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or traveled on his plane, the Hollywood publicist helped the
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disgraced millionaire regain access to elite social circles following his
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time behind bars in the two thousands. According to New
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York Magazine, Siegel got Epstein invited to the twenty thirteen
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met Gala and helped him gain access to dinners alongside
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a list names such as Martha Stewart, Lauren Michaels, and
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Well, I'm sure that he got
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help from Leon Black two considering Leon Black station with
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the Met, so I'm sure that Leon Black stepped in
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and helped too. But there's no doubt that Peggy Siegel
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played a gigantic part when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein
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and his rubbing elbows with people like Lauren Michaels and
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Eric Schmidt. She also routinely added him to screening lists
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and occasionally brought him herself a close associated. Seagull claimed
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the publicist became the lynchpin for Epstein's social life. Look,
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there's no doubt about that, and I told you that
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years ago, Glenn Maxwell was making a lot of the
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introductions when it comes to you know, different kinds of elite.
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But when it comes to the social circle that Peggy
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Siegel was running in Hollywood, famous people actors, that was
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Epstein's in and Peggy Siegel was his gal. Peggy Siegel
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helped Jeffrey Epstein plan a party filled with a list
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guests and Andrew mount Batten Winsor as a guest of honor.
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According to emails, Epstein was eager to befriend Woody Allen
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and suggested Siegel invite the director to his party. Woody
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is a great idea, do you know, Woody, I do
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Shiro back, The publicist seemed to consider the possibility it
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could create fallout. Could there be any resistance because he
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had a public issue with sun Ye Just thinking ahead,
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I think that there were friends before that. Jeffrey Epstein
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and Woody Allen. I think they've been friends for a
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lot longer than that, and there was just an invite.
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So I think there's a little bit of a confusion
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here as far as Siegel and you know, Jeffrey Epstein
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and Woody Allen and their relationship. She suggested inviting art dealer,
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and Alan's close friend learned to Ash, writing, he may
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feel better if people he knows or around them. On
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the other hand, a royal may intrigue him. Siegel insisted
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to New York Magazine that the dinner party was a
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total exception and that she never hosted parties for Epstein.
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She claimed that she had only agreed to this party
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in order to get Harvey Weinstein's film The King's Speech
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so former Prince Andrew and in front of Queen Elizabeth
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the second oh yeah, because they didn't have access to
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the movies over in the UK. The royal family couldn't
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have the movie brought to the palace for them to watch.
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Who the fuck do you think you're kidding? Because you're
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not fooling me, and I promise you you're not fooling the
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people listening, who are a lot smarter than me in
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a lot of cases. All right, So cut the nonsense.
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Harvey had been trying to get a quote from the Queen,
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she told the outlet, noting she had been marketing the
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movie at the time. It was ridiculous looking back, Siegel
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claimed that she jeopardized her relationship with all these important
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people by inviting them around Epstein, they didn't know who
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he was. Yeah right, yeah right. I'm getting really tired
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of having what little bit of intelligence I have insulted
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by these people, like they truly believe we're just all
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so stupid, We're going to take every bit of bullshit
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they serve us, and like Oliver Twist asked for more,
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all the Jeffrey is illegal and moral behavior was in
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Palm Beach, and he went to jail in Palm Beach,
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and the New York Times never wrote about him. World
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famous newscasters didn't know who Jeffrey Epstein was, and they
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counted on my relationship with them to invite them to
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an interesting evening, which I had many many times before
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they came on my say, so that's such a lie.
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People were reporting on Epstein all the way back then.
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Michael was nobody's business. So she's just straight up lying
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here like everybody else that was around them, obviously, because
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they know how radioactive Jeffrey Epstein was and still is.
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The New York Times did write about Epstein's two thousand
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and eight jelstin. They're not the only ones. Jeffrey Epstein's
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emails The Hollywood publicist Peggy Siegel showed that he may
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have been interested in finding a baby mama. You schmooze
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and find me a baby mama, Epstein wrote in an email. Well,
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that hits a little different, knowing that we heard that
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Epstein had a baby, a baby mama. If I wasn't
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one o two, I would take that job in a nanosecond.
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The publicists wrote back, Oh, that's a good look. You
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want to be impregnated by Jeffrey Epstein, han Peggy Siegel, Yikes,
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I need gray jeans. Epstein added, smart, pretty funny if
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you were fifty years younger. Whoops, forty, she responded. I'm
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thinking this is a position for a European who understands
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the mistress in this case baby mama mentality. You need
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someone young without much of a career, maybe a professional student,
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someone who has kept I can just keep going to school.
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Also who doesn't have much of a family yourself, I
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want to be a socialite is not the way to go.
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Looking and looking xoxo peg. Wow. The disgust that builds
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in my stomach whenever we read these stories about these
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women who are looking for other women is just unbelievable,
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almost like exorcist levels of vomit want to come out
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of my mouth. How could a woman do that? I
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just don't understand. And let's be very clear, forty three
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percent of people that are involved in human trafficking, as
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far as the traffickers are women, how do you think
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they get the guard down of the girls that they're
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targeting some creepy Asshold, dude, isn't cruising up. It's somebody
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like Sarah Kelln Vickers. Peggy Siegel admitted she wasn't oblivious
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to the fact that Jeffrey Epstein was morally compromised than
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a con man. I was in denial. But if I
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tell you that he told me he's changed his ways,
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then that's telling you I knew that he was a pervert,
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she told New York Magazine. I mean, obviously I had
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a sense that he had done something wrong if he
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had gone to jail. Siegul added, I wasn't oblivious that
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he was morally compromised than a con man. But I
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don't know how to say this to you. The idea
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of child pornography is so heinous that you can't even
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think about it. You can't even discuss it. I know
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it sounds crazy, but it's nothing I wanted to deal with. Yeah,
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you know who didn't want to deal with it? The
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kids being abused. Peggy, I'm glad you had fun. I'm
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glad you had a great time with your boy Jeffrey.
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I'm glad you wanted him to impregnate you. But I
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can promise you the survivors wanted nothing of the sort.
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And you see how flippin she is here like just
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writing it off like it's just some big mistake, Like
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it's no big deal. Ah, you know, just a big mistake,
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but not a tragic one, not one that should end
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my career. Well, Peggy Siegel, I have bad news for you. Your
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career that's finished, and your legacy, whatever's left of it,
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if anything is left of it, will forever be tarnished
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and weighed down by the anchor known as Jeffrey Epstein.
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And guess what, Peggy Siegel, you have no one to
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blame but yourself. All right, folks, that's going to do
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it for this one. All the information that goes with
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