Carole Radziwill was put in the hot seat over her ties to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell during Tuesday’s “Real Housewives of New York City” episode.
As the Bravolebrity and her castmates enjoyed a trip to Erika Hammond’s private island, she admitted, “If you Google me right now, it says that myname is in the Epstein files.”
She insisted to co-stars Daisy Toye and Hailey Glassman that she “never knew Jeffrey Epstein” — and that Maxwell, 64, “never spoke about him.”
When Jessel Taank and Sai De Silva joined the chat, Radziwill denied the latter’s assumption that she was “really good friends” with Maxwell, who has beenconvicted of child sex traffickingandsentenced to 20 years in prison. Epstein, for his part,died in 2019while in federal prisonawaiting trial.
Noting that people who “read the press” would think she and Maxwell had a strong bond, Radziwill clarified, “She was never one of my close friends.”
The scene cut to a confessional, with the journalist doubling down that Maxwell “never talked” about Epstein — and that she and the former socialite were just “friendly.”
Radziwill claimed, “In the early 2000s, it would be strange if you [went] out to a really big event in New York and Ghislaine wasn’t there.”
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Continuing to answer her co-stars’ questions, Radziwill called Maxwell a “social climber” and said they “drifted apart” since their connection “wasn’t that deep.”
She added, “If you lined up 10 women and said, ‘Which one was part of an international sex trafficking ring?’ It would not be her.”
As De Silva’s queries persisted, Radziwill asked, “How do I know you don’t know a predator? … Maybe you just don’t know it yet. That’s my point. This is a story as old as time.”
She went on to share her own story of being sexually assaulted by a professor in college while emphasizing that Epstein “got what he deserved.”
