Royal author Andrew Lownie has written an explosive new book titled "Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York."
Hollywood power broker Peggy Siegal saw her career unravel after her ties to Jeffrey Epstein came under scrutiny following the financier’s 2019 arrest onsex trafficking charges.
Roughly 5,000 emails between Siegal and Epstein sent between 2009 and 2019 were released by the Department of Justice earlier this year. The correspondence between Siegal – who represented clients such as Steven Spielberg, Harvey Weinstein and Barry Levinson – shed new light on the pair’s seemingly symbiotic relationship.
Siegal opened up about what she gained from her association with Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial, in a recent interview withNew York Magazine.
The revelations offer a closer look at the Hollywood publicist’s role in Epstein’s social orbit and the fallout that followed.
HOLLYWOOD EXECS LOSE DEALS, CLIENTS FLEE AS EPSTEIN FILES TRIGGER FALLOUT IN THE INDUSTRY
Peggy Siegal's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein came under scrutiny after the DOJ released emails related to investigations.(Getty Images)
Jeffrey Epsteingifted Peggy Siegal $100,000 for her 70th birthday in 2017, roughly two years before the financier was arrested on charges of sex trafficking minors. "I had no problem taking his money," she told New York Magazine. "He had lots of it."
Siegal laid out her plans on how she was hoping to spend the money in an email to Epstein. $30,000 was set aside for a birthday party she wanted to host in Southampton with 70 guests. Another $15,000 was to be donated to Elton John's AIDS Foundation so she could "attend a party at his house in June."
Siegal also revealed she'd use some of the huge sum to supplement her apartment renovation as she was looking for a temporary fix while she waited for "an amazing brown and beige leopard rug that is wall to wall carpeting for my whole apartment and being made in France."
"When the apartment gets done, you're my first visitor," she wrote at the time.
While Peggy Siegal claimed she never went to Jeffrey Epstein's island or traveled on his plane, the Hollywood publicist helped the disgraced millionaire regain access to elite social circles following his time behind bars in the 2000s.
According to New York Magazine, Siegal got Epstein invited to the 2013 Met Gala and helped him gain access to dinners alongside A-list names such asMartha Stewart, Lorne Michaels and Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
She also routinely added him to screening lists and occasionally brought him herself.
A close associate of Siegal's claimed the publicist became "the linchpin" for Epstein's social life.
