Kit10Phish Explains It All: III-A. Stein: Weinstein & Epstein

We’re taking the smallest departure from Soho House to discuss an important connection. A thread between sexual abusers. The relationship between Harvey Weinstein and Jeffery Epstein.

Epstein’s camp and Weinstein

may have been friendly since the 1990s

Epstein listed three Miramax executives in his Little Black Book: Miramax executive Meryl Poster, former spokesman Andrew Stengel, and Harvey’s brother, Bob. In July 2006, Epstein and Maxwell were snapped grinning with Weinstein at Princess Beatrice’s 18th birthday party at Windsor Castle. The Victorian-themed bash came just days before Epstein was indicted for soliciting minor girls for prostitution in Palm Beach, Florida.

Epstein once counted the producer (and now convicted sex offender) as a friend, allegedly inviting him to his Paris apartment, and apparently invoking the producer’s name to show off around his victims that were hoping for a big break.

Epstein’s accused madam, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, also appeared friendly with Weinstein, attending parties and premieres for his film companies. Maxwell has been photographed at events for Miramax and The Weinstein Company for years. In January 2007, Maxwell was captured at a screening after-party for Breaking and Entering, which was released by Weinstein’s companies.

Guess who else Ghislaine Maxwell was photographed with? If you guessed Prince Andrew, you’d be right. And we’ll get back to this in a few.

Royal Ascot horse races (above, Maxwell is in green)

“From my point of view, I can tell you that Ghislaine and Epstein viewed Hollywood and the movies as a way into power society,” said New York publicist R. Couri Hay. “Epstein collected people, including movie stars like Woody Allen.” “The Jeffreys of the world are the kind of people Harvey liked in his orbit,” said the source, who was friendly with Maxwell. “If he saw power and/or influence, all of that was very appealing to Harvey.”

Weinstein and Epstein also shared certain high-profile connections, like power publicist Peggy Siegal, former President Clinton, and the aforementioned Prince Andrew. In 2003, the men were part of an investor group, which included media mogul Mort Zuckerman and Cablevision CEO James Dolan, bent on buying New York magazine.

Edited by:
Muskaan Sharma
World News
Jan 07, 2024 08:07 am IST

The third batch of court documents related to Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, now known as the Epstein files, were released yesterday. The documents include a handwritten note dated 2005 that mentions Weinstein's name, indicating that he attempted to reach Epstein at around 10.20 am in March 2005. "She had on the phone, Mr. Harvey Weinstein," the note said.

According to a book by Bradley Edwards, a lawyer for Virginia Giuffre,

“Weinstein was at Epstein's apartment in France receiving a massage from one of Epstein's girls when he attempted to aggressively convert the massage into something sexual. “The girl rejected his advances. As the story goes, Harvey then verbally abused her for rejecting him," the book says. Jeffrey then came into the room, got in Harvey's face, and kicked him out of his house, delivering the message that he was never to come back."

That anecdote which is in Edwards’ tell-all, Relentless Pursuit, is one of the first public allegations of a deeper relationship between Epstein, an accused serial molester of minor girls, and Weinstein, who was recently convicted of rape. At another point in his book, Edwards notes that Epstein allegedly introduced at least one young victim to Weinstein, as well as Donald Trump, to impress her and remind her “of all that he could continue to do for her in the future.”

When Palm Beach police investigated Epstein for sex trafficking in 2005, they discovered message pads in his trash that highlighted missed calls from pals including Donald Trump, illusionist David Copperfield (listed as “Magic David”), and French modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel.

Victim Testimony:

Maria Farmer was hired as Epstein’s “art consultant” in 1995, but mostly answered the door at his Manhattan townhouse. Farmer (one of Epstein’s earliest victims) says she was sexually assaulted by Epstein and Maxwell in 1996, when she was 26 and working at the Ohio mansion of former Limited Brands Chairman Les Wexner.

Epstein and Maxwell are also accused of sexually abusing her 15-year-old sister, Annie, at Epstein’s New Mexico compound. “I think Annie would be perfect for them, or we might have to call Harvey,” Farmer recalls Maxwell saying. Maxwell allegedly suggested she could call “Harvey” to get Annie an acting role, or even a shoot with Ford Models.

[Both Katie Ford, the agency’s former CEO, and her ex-husband, hotelier André Balazs, have multiple numbers in Epstein’s address book. Neither returned messages left by The Daily Beast.]

Chauntae Davies was recruited into Epstein’s trafficking ring in 2001, when she was a 21-year-old massage-therapy student in California. But Epstein also introduced Davies to Weinstein, who allegedly got her an audition for Feast, a 2005 film about a remote Texas tavern fending off monsters. The low-budget flick was produced by Dimension Films, the independent arm of Miramax that was run by Weinstein’s brother. Davies played a character identified only as “Drunk Girl,” according to IMDb. Asked if Davies’ role in a Dimension movie was only a coincidence, her attorney, Brad Edwards, confirmed it was not. “Jeffrey Epstein introduced her to Harvey and that connection is what led to her getting that audition,” Edwards said.

Davies’ time in Epstein’s world included a 2002 humanitarian trip to Africa with former President Bill Clinton on the money-manager’s private jet. Actors Chris Tucker and Kevin Spacey were along for the ride. She says the perverted financier groomed and sexually abused her for years before she escaped in 2005.

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