A bathrobe and underwear from a Swiss brand worth more than $9,000: this is one of the astonishing gifts that Jeffrey Epstein would have given to Woody Allen and his wife. By delving into the famous “Epstein Files”, “Le Monde” retraced nine years of correspondence between the American filmmaker and the financier, convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008.
In a video published on social networks, the French daily details Epstein’s many attentions to the couple. Soon-Yi Previn would have received an iPhone, as well as an Apple Watch Hermès. The financier also made his private jet available to Woody Allen and his wife for some of their trips.
What is more surprising in these documents is the nature of the gifts that Jeffrey Epstein reserved for Woody Allen. Among them, a bathrobe: “I always wanted this model. Bad luck, it scratches. So I’m sending it back to you,” we can read in the exchanges. In the rest of his response, the American filmmaker clarifies to his interlocutor that he only wears underwear from the Swiss brand Zimmerli. As revealed by “Le Monde”, three years later, on the occasion of the birthday of the director of “Blue Jasmine”, Jeffrey Epstein gave him 31 t-shirts and 31 briefs from his favorite brand of underwear for an amount of 9,858 dollars.
According to our colleagues, Epstein’s generosity towards Woody Allen was mainly self-serving. The businessman wanted to take advantage of the director’s vast network to bounce back after his legal setbacks. The two men met on December 2, 2010, at a dinner organized at Epstein’s New York residence. Two and a half years after his sentence to eighteen months in prison for “solicitation of prostitution” and “incitement of a minor to prostitution”.
