James PATTERSON eo oe # | 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. 4 ; He’s breaking the oath he made to himself —that he would never E 3 do anything that would expose him in the media. Right now,in | 4 hat I had ‘on tt the wake of the publicity following his trip with Clinton, he a 4 \ Beast article pu must be ina very difficult place.” 4 some remarkab a | on-the-record stories from q 5, who came from Phoenix. ' g ee. character was vouchsafed : 4 the artist Eric Fischl, had 1 4 @ ing room, of how Epstein h 3 E separately, her younger sist i 4 Ward had written it all g | the t's, dotted the i's. | But when she called Ej F 7 the allegations completely. : ' ‘Just the mention of ¢ 148 4 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022115