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Peggy Siegal and George Clooney attend UNIVERSAL PICTURES and EDMISTON & CO. Host a Privatel Screening of LEATHERHEADS at The Museum of Modern Art on April 3, 2008 in New York City.
- Peggy Siegal is a prominent New York publicist who has organized promotional screenings for films including "The Big Short," "Argo," and "The Revenant."
- Siegal invited registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to her screenings after Epstein was released from jail in 2010, The New York Times reported.
- Siegal told The New York Times that she ended her relationship with Epstein at the height of the #MeToo movement in 2017.
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Peggy Siegal, one of New York's most powerful publicists, has spent over 30 years connecting New York's tastemakers to generate press and awards for the films she represents. Until two years ago, one of those influential people was registered sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein.
"I was a kind of plugged-in girl around town who knew a lot of people," Siegal told The New York Times. "And I think that's what he wanted from me, a kind of social goings-on about New York."
In 2010, a year after Epstein was released from a 13-month prison sentence for solicitation of prostitution and procurement of minors for prostitution in Florida, Siegal invited him to her events and even planned a dinner party at his house for Prince Andrew, according to The New York Times.
His relationship with Siegal was not the only way Epstein, who was arrested on charges of sex trafficking of minors on July 6, 2019, attempted to raise his profile during that time. Business Insider previously reported that former President Bill Clinton and Britain's Prince Andrew were also in Epstein's network.
Keep reading for a look inside Peggy Siegal's life - and her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.