Although Radziwill’s direct address of her Epstein affiliation certainly raises eyebrows ahead of the upcoming RHONY season, the longtime reality star has not shied away from addressing her ties to the disgraced late financier and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell. (He died by suicide in 2019 awaiting trial for sex trafficking charges.)
“I never knew Jeffrey Epstein,” Radziwill—who was mentioned by name in Maxwell’s emails released in the files—told the New York Times in an interview published in March, although noting she was at one point close to Maxwell adding: “Imagine knowing someone and even being friendly with them and then they turn out to be, like, a monster.”
And Radziwill emphasized that Maxwell’s Epstein affiliation—and 20-year prison sentence for conspiring with him to sexually abuse minors—was a complete shock to her.
“The thing about her that made it easy for me to spend any time with her at all was that she was very intelligent, she was educated,” she explained. “If you lined up 10 women and you asked, like, pick the woman who would be involved in an international sex trafficking ring, it would not be her.”
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