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\u201cI\u2019m very good at giving away your money,\u201d Woody Allen<\/a> texted Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>.<\/p>\n In December 2016, Allen and Epstein were deciding on recipients for a $15,000 donation for Epstein, according to documents<\/a> in the latest Justice Department release of Epstein materials. Then the director \u2014 or, more likely, his wife and ex-step-daughter Soon-Yi Previn<\/a> \u2014 had an idea.<\/p>\n \u201cPlease give the entire 15 to Hewitt,\u201d said the message to Epstein from Allen\u2019s phone. \u201cAs Woody said, that way they will definitely graduate Manzie.\u201d<\/p>\n At the time, Manzie Allen, the adopted daughter of Allen and Previn, was a 16-year-old enrolled at the Hewitt School, an elite K\u201312 all-girls school just blocks from Jefrey Epstein\u2019s Upper East Side mansion of horrors<\/a>. (Also at the time, Previn was frequently<\/a> using<\/a> her husband\u2019s phone and email to contact Epstein.) Hours after the text, Epstein\u2019s gift came through. \u201cI just got home and found the contribution,\u201d said the message from Allen\u2019s phone. \u201cYou\u2019re the best. It made my day. I can\u2019t thank you enough. The schools never have enough money. This will help them with their expansion.\u201d<\/p>\n The gift went through to the Hewitt School, where tuition is now $67,700 and whose famous alumni include Phoebe Cates and Koo Stark, the former girlfriend of disgraced Epstein confidante Prince Andrew<\/a>. In July 2019, the school confirmed<\/a> that it had received a $15,000 donation from Epstein but that it had returned the funds several months earlier. The latest Epstein documents reveal for the first time that the Allens solicited the gift to help their youngest daughter, who graduated in 2018.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not the only instance in the Epstein docs in which the convicted sex trafficker talked about assisting the Allens with their daughters\u2019 education. The emails also show that Epstein lobbied his longtime acquaintance Leon Botstein, the president of Bard College, to help Manzie\u2019s older sister, Bechet, get into the liberal-arts school on the Hudson. At the time, she was enrolled at the Brearley School, another elite K\u201312 girls\u2019 school on the Upper East Side. \u201cI can\u2019t thank you enough for getting Bechet into Bard,\u201d read a message sent from Woody Allen\u2019s email account first reported<\/a> on by the New York Times.<\/p>\n The Allens did not want their daughter to know of Epstein\u2019s involvement. \u201cI think it\u2019s best that Bechet struggles and doesn\u2019t know ahead of time that she got in so that when she gets into Bard she will have sweated it out a bit and will really want to go,\u201d said the message to Epstein. The correspondence took place less than a month after the Allens secured the $15,000 gift to Hewitt.<\/p>\n The batch of Epstein emails released last week provide a deeper look into the already well-documented relationship between Epstein, Previn, and Allen. They show<\/a> that Previn sent Epstein a link to a story on the Anthony Weiner<\/a> sexting scandal in September 2016, writing that the minor the former congressman sexted with was in the wrong. \u201cI also thought it was disgusting what the 15-year-old did,\u201d Previn wrote. \u201cI hate women who take advantage of guys, and she is definitely one of them.\u201d Epstein replied, \u201cWow.\u201d The next year, Previn wrote that her stepbrother Ronan Farrow\u2019s Me Too reporting gets more prestige \u201cthan he deserves.\u201d<\/p>\n New York has reached out to representatives for Woody Allen, Manzie Allen, Previn, and the Hewitt School. In a statement<\/a> to the New York Times, a representative for Leon Botstein said that Epstein was a \u201cserial liar who apparently took credit for the sun rising each day.\u201d A previous donation from Allen to the Hewitt School included a gift of four tickets to the release and red-carpet party for Allen\u2019s 2013 film Blue Jasmine. In an auction catalogue from that time<\/a>, they were valued as \u201cpriceless.\u201d<\/p>\n Sign Up for the Intelligencer\u00a0Newsletter<\/p>\n Daily news about the politics, business, and technology shaping our world.<\/p>\n Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice<\/p>\n