James PATTERSON * * * One young woman Ward talked to had been invited by Ghis- laine Maxwell to attend a party at Epstein’s town house. There, the woman had noticed, female guests far outnumbered the male guests. “These were not women you'd see at Upper East Side din- ners,” the woman had said. “Many seemed foreign and dressed a little bizarrely.” “This same guest also attended a cocktail party thrown by } Maxwell that Prince Andrew attended, which was filled, she | says, with young Russian models,” Ward wrote. * ‘Some of the guests were horrified, the woman says.” ; Another source, one who had worked with Epstein, said, | Vicky Ward: November “He’s reckless, and he’s gotten more SO. Money does that to you. | He’s breaking the oath he made to himself —that he would never 3 do anything that would expose him in the media. Right now, in ; q hat I had ‘on tk the wake of the publicity following his trip with Clinton, he ji , Beast article pu must be ina very difficult place.” . 3 \ some remarkab ‘_ '_ on-the-record stories from 4 4 who came from Phoenix. ' g ES character was vouchsafed % 4 the artist Eric Fischl, had 1 3 a 3 ing room, of how Epstein h 4 separately, her younger sist SF) sOWard had written it all 4 4 the t’s, dotted the i’s. j : But when she called Fj 3 3 the allegations completely. § ' ‘Just the mention of < 148 j q HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022004