ITTERSON * 1 to had been invited by Ghis- ) at Epstein’s town house. There, rests far outnumbered the male you'd see at Upper East Side din- ny seemed foreign and dressed a CHAPTER 38 ded a cocktail party thrown by attended, which was filled, she | els,” Ward wrote. “‘Some of the ' an says.” \ had worked with Epstein, said, J Vicky Ward: November 2002 nore so. Money does that to you. ; j : to himself —that he wouldnever -him in the media. Right now, in . a hat I had ‘on the girls” Ward explained in a Daily owing his trip with Clinton, he 4 " Beast article published after Epstein’s arrest, “were on i 3 \ y some remarkably brave first-person accounts. Three : 4 a on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters i 4 who came from Phoenix. The oldest daughter, an artist whose 4 | 7 character was vouchsafed to me by several sources, including 4 ' the artist Eric Fischl, had told me, weeping as she sat in my liy- ‘ q ing room, of how Epstein had attempted to seduce both her and, a separately, her younger sister, then only 16.” ' Ward had written it all down in her notes. She had crossed ¢ | the t’s, dotted the i’s. 4 _ _But when she called Epstein to get his response, he denied ; _ the allegations completely. j q ‘Just the mention of a 16-year-old girl,” Epstein told her, [ 148 j ’ 149 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022116