At the time, Woody Allen and Soon Yi lived around the corner from Epstein, who was hosting salons at his townhouse.
“You’d go over there for dinner and sit down and he would listen to people. He would throw out a subject that people would talk about. You know, he was very big, I believe, in supporting cutting edge science. That came up a lot. There were interesting conversations about cryobiology and astronomy. And this one would be a mathematician and this one would be, you know, gerontology.”
The Epstein dinners weren’t all college lectures. “We’d get a call saying, come over because, you know, the ambassador from this country is having dinner or there’ll be journalists. One evening he had an evening of all comedians. And one evening he had an evening of all magicians.”
There were no young girls around at these events. Had he even heard of Epstein before all this? “No,” Woody says, which is completely plausible since Allen spends most of his time writing. That’s how you get 50 movies, not to mention books, essays and plays. He does not read People magazine, folks.
Woody did meet Prince Andrew. “They said, “We’re having probably a group of people over there to meet Prince Andrew. You know, it didn’t mean anything to him,” Woody observes, meaning Andrew had no interest in Woody Allen. “But Soon Yi, you know, always followed the royal family, always read about them. I don’t think we said two words to him. He was there and people would speak to him. But, you know, he seemed like a quiet, you know, [guy].”
I reminded Woody there’s one picture that always runs in the news of Epstein, Woody, and Soon Yi walking together. That, he says, was a result of Epstein walking them out after a dinner at his house. He and Soon Yi always walked home.
Sure, Woody, one perv hanging with another.