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struggle4progress

(126,177 posts)
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 02:09 PM Sep 2025

Woody Allen says Epstein couldn't have been nicer

Rob Freeman
Sunday 14 September 2025 06:35 EDT

Woody Allen said Jeffrey Epstein “couldn’t have been nicer” when he was invited to a series of dinners at the home of the paedophile financier.

The director said he had not met Epstein before he was among the guests at a dinner in December 2010, which also included the Duke of York.

Allen, 89, told The Sunday Times he and his wife Soon-Yi Previn had been invited by a publicist to the dinner with “one of those British royals” and other guests.

Epstein had just finished a prison term for soliciting an underage girl for prostitution ...

https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/films/news/wood-allen-jeffrey-epstein-dinners-b2826194.html

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Woody Allen says Epstein couldn't have been nicer (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2025 OP
Why am I thinking about Woody Allen and the old joke about him? rzemanfl Sep 2025 #1
Check (n/t) PJMcK Sep 2025 #9
Woody... Mike Nelson Sep 2025 #2
Yeah, like Woody Allen is such a great judge of character. greatauntoftriplets Sep 2025 #3
Sexual abusers supporting each other. How quaint. still-prayin4rain Sep 2025 #4
That's nice to know! LeftInTX Sep 2025 #5
SMH ProfessorGAC Sep 2025 #6
Said the man who married his daughter Peacetrain Sep 2025 #7
Now that is a great person to trust about a pedophile RockCreek Sep 2025 #8

rzemanfl

(31,393 posts)
1. Why am I thinking about Woody Allen and the old joke about him?
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 02:14 PM
Sep 2025

It addressed Woody and Epstein having a common interest. It was also sexist and racist. I am sure some older Du members heard it back in the day.

Mike Nelson

(10,943 posts)
2. Woody...
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 02:22 PM
Sep 2025

... is probably telling the truth. But, his timing is way off... surely he knows when to give someone a compliment. At the height of the "Epstein Files" story, he shares this? Something wrong with him. It relays a message, all right... he's not stupid. he must know how it sounds. So, my conclusion is that he is reacting to the film fans who have dissed him. He's "rubbing their noses in it." Nobody wants to hear about Hitler's good taste in art, or that Lizzie Borden was a great doggie mom.

ProfessorGAC

(76,718 posts)
6. SMH
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 03:44 PM
Sep 2025

What a dolt! Saying nothing is so much easier than saying something stupid by complimenting a pedophile felon.

RockCreek

(1,472 posts)
8. Now that is a great person to trust about a pedophile
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 04:18 PM
Sep 2025

Once again, I would like to think it's the Onion. But I know better...

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