On July 22, 2009, Peggy Siegal, one of New York’s cultural ringmasters, welcomed Jeffrey Epstein home from prison.
How did it feel, she asked, “to fall asleep on 100% Egyptian cotton again? Exactly how long was your first freedom shower? What did you have for breakfast? Caviar, smoked salmon, eggs benedict?”
Siegal was “working away” in St. Tropez — but wearing stripes in celebration of Epstein’s release. He had served 13 months on child prostitution charges — and it would be Siegal’s task, over the final decade of Epstein’s life, to help reintegrate him into high society. She worked primarily for studios, throwing lavish parties for films with
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