Former advertising maven Peggy Siegal he once hosted a late-night disgraced financier’s dinner party Jeffrey Epstein again Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
“He wanted, wanted, wanted to be invited everywhere,” Siegal, 78, said New York Magazine Wednesday, March 4, profile, recalling Epstein’s hopes of being invited to all the major parties. “He didn’t want to leave his house, he wanted everyone to come to his mansion so that he could control, so that he could exploit his audience under the palace where he lived.
At one point, Epstein threw a party in honor of Andrew, now 66, at his New York City residence. Siegal, who said he has a “commercial” friendship with Epstein, went on to say he didn’t want to help with the bash.
“I completely jeopardized my relationships with all these important people – they didn’t know who they were [Jeffrey] was,” she said to the star-studded guest list screening company. New York Times he never wrote about himself. … The world-famous news anchors had no idea who Jeffrey Epstein was, and they relied on my relationship with them to invite them to a fun night, which I had many, many times before. They came by my decision.”
According to Siegal, he only agreed to throw Epstein’s party so that Andrew could help put in a copy for one of the producers. Harvey Weinsteinn’s in the hands of Queen Elizabeth II. (Andrew was one of the sons of the late queen of England, who died in 2022 at the age of 96.)
The dinner for 10 people is said to have included guests such as Charlie Rose, George Stephanopoulos, Katie Couric, Chelsea Handler again Woody Allenwho met Andrew while eating lasagna.
“They were told there would be no palace guards around Andrew at the dinner,” Siegal recalled. “They could ask him anything they wanted to know about [Prince William and Princess Kate Middleton’s 2011] marriage.”
According to the former broadcaster, Allen, now 90, only agreed to come because he was apparently told he could “wear his chinos and his bucket hat.”
“I don’t think he would have come if he knew who Jeffrey was,” she guessed.
Jeffrey Epstein.
Florida Department of Law Enforcement via Getty ImagesEpstein was found guilty of child sex trafficking and conspiracy to traffic children for the purpose of criminal sex in a 2019 jury trial. He committed suicide at the age of 66 that year while incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York.
Andrew’s encounter with Andrew, meanwhile, resurfaced in the fall of 2025 when the FBI released the “Epstein Files,” which included photos of the two men together and their email exchanges. When the documents were released, Andrew voluntarily surrendered his HRH honours.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s downfall as acting monarch is undoubtedly linked to the late disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. While Mountbatten-Windsor has always denied any wrongdoing, he is accused by Epstein’s victim Virginia Giuffre (née Roberts) of sexually abusing her three times when she was 17 years old. These two […]
“In discussion with the King, and my immediate and extended family, we are aware of the ongoing allegations against me that are interfering with the work of His Majesty and the Royal Family,” Andrew said in a statement. Us Weekly in October 2025. “I have decided, as I always do, to put my work in my family and my country first. I stand by my decision five years ago to withdraw from public life.”
Andrew was arrested in February on suspicion of misconduct in public office, where he is accused of sharing secret intel with Epstein while working as a UK trade ambassador. The former prince did not respond to these allegations.
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