[TERSON * 1 to had been invited by Ghis- at Epstein’s town house. There, ruests far outnumbered the male youd see at Upper East Side din- ay seemed foreign and dressed a | CHAPTER 38 ded a cocktail party thrown by attended, which was filled, she als,” Ward wrote. “‘Some of the | ’ an says.” t . had worked with Epstein, said, Vicky Ward: November 2002 nore so. Money does that to you. 4 to himself—that he would never 4 him in the media. Right now, in of 4 hat I had ‘on the girls?” Ward explained in a Daily owing his trip with Clinton, he | y \ \ Beast article published after Epstein’s arrest, “were 3 g some remarkably brave first-person accounts. Three 3 | ontthe-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters 4 ‘ who came from Phoenix. The oldest daughter, an artist whose 4 4 character was vouchsafed to me by several sources, including 3 the artist Eric Fischl, had told me, weeping as she sat in my liv- q ing room, of how Epstein had attempted to seduce both her and, a 7 separately, her younger sister, then only 16.” : _ Ward had written it all down in her notes, She had crossed . q the t’s, dotted the i’s. 3 7 But when she called Epstein to get his response, he denied q “the allegations completely. j 4 ‘Just the mention of a 16-year-old girl,” Epstein told her, 148 j ; 149 j 4 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022005