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d to had been invited by Ghis- at Epstein's town house. There, guests far outnumbered the male you'd see at Upper East Side din- ny seemed foreign and dressed a

ded a cocktail party thrown by
attended, which was filled, she
els," 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 owing his trip with Clinton, he 13

## CHAPTER 38

## Vicky Ward: November 2002

hat I had 'on the girls," Ward explained in a Daily W 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 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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