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1 to had been invited by Ghis- at Epstein’s town house. There, ruests far outnumbered the male youd see at Upper East Side din- nay seemed foreign and dressed a
ded a cocktail party thrown by attended, which was filled, she als,” Ward wrote. “‘Some of the an says.”
had worked with Epstein, said, nore so. Money does that to you. to himself — that he would never him in the media. Right now, in ywing his trip with Clinton, he
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hat I had ‘on the girls?” Ward explained in a Daily Beast article published after Epstein’s arrest, “were some remarkably brave first-person accounts. Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix. The oldest daughter, an artist whose
character was vouchsafed to me by several sources, including
the artist Eric Fischl, had told me, weeping as she sat in my liv- ing room, of how Epstein had attempted to seduce both her and, _ separately, her younger sister, then only 16.”
Ward had written it all down in her notes. She had crossed
q the t’s, dotted the i’s.
But when she called Epstein to get his response, he denied
"the allegations completely.
‘Just the mention of a 16-year-old girl,” Epstein told her,
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