Peggy Siegal Compares Bad Press About Her Jeffrey Epstein Connection to 'Nazi Germany'
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There are many names that have cropped up alongside Jeffrey Epstein in the months since his death and even more since his arrest for sex trafficking charges. (The August 2019 incident, not to be confused with his 2008 guilty plea for soliciting sex from a minor.) One of those names is Peggy Siegal—a public relations maven known for her star-studded award show season events, and a woman that the New York Times labeled one of Epstein’s “social guarantors.” Since then, Siegal has been mostly shunned by her industry for her relationship with Epstein, which included inviting him to events and, according to a new profile in Vanity Fair, hosting a dinner in his home and attending a post-Yom Kippur breakfast there. Siegal maintains Epstein was never a client, and now blames the press for turning her into a pariah.
The Vanity Fair profile is full of questionable quotes from Siegal, but none as damning as when she discussed a less-than-glowing Hollywood Reporter article published last summer. Titled “Peggy Siegal and Jeffrey Epstein: A Hollywood Event Planner’s Symbiotic Relationship With a Sex Offender,” the article accused Siegal of assisting in facilitating Epstein’s return to high society after his initial conviction of pedophilia. Siegal told VF she first read the story at four in the morning, and then proceeded to compare it to the Holocaust: