Top magazine editor Tina Brown has revealed her disgust at once being invited to an intimate Jeffrey Epstein party with his pals Prince Andrew and Woody Allen \u2014 declaring: \u201cWhat the hell is this \u2014 the Predator\u2019s Ball?\u201d<\/p>\n
Brown, 71, who was editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair<\/a> in the late \u201980s before taking the reins at the Daily Beast, recalled to the New York Times in a recent wide-ranging interview <\/a>how she received the invitation to Epstein\u2019s home after he had already been convicted of sex crimes in 2008.<\/p>\n \u201cI was invited to a dinner after he had been convicted. A publicist called me in the office at the Daily Beast, and she said, \u2018Tina, I want you to come to this great dinner at Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s house, and the other guests are Charlie Rose, Woody Allen and Prince Andrew,\u2019 \u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n Former Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Tina Brown recalls receiving an invitation to Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s home after he had been convicted of sex crimes in 2008. Getty Images<\/p>\n The veteran editor noted that the invite came even after she had started publishing stories at the Beast about how Epstein still hadn\u2019t been shunned by the mega-elite despite his sick pedophile crimes.<\/p>\n \u201cLloyd Grove, who was a journalist at the Beast, reminds me whenever I see him that I yelled into the phone: \u2018What the hell is this \u2014 the Predator\u2019s Ball?\u2019 I was outraged that [the publicist] hadn\u2019t seemed to have read our pieces,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n \u201cI said, \u2018I\u2019ve printed pieces about this guy. No, thank you very much. I decline. I don\u2019t want to have dinner at Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s house.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n Brown\u2019s disgusted reaction to the notion was in reference to \u201cThe Predators\u2019 Ball\u201d \u2014 the 1988 book by Connie Bruck about Wall Street greed.<\/p>\n Brown also recalled running into Epstein\u2019s British socialite sex-trafficking accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, in social circles in the \u201980s and \u201990s.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t understand their relationship at the time because you never saw Epstein with her, actually. I think Epstein was slightly in her rearview mirror when I knew her,\u201d Brown said. \u201cI didn\u2019t really know about that background with Epstein until I read about it later.<\/p>\n Woody Allen was one of the guests invited to the dinner party, Brown said. Bruce Glikas\/WireImage<\/p>\n Donald Trump and Melania pose with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Getty Images<\/p>\n Former Prince Andrew was also to attend the dinner. Getty Images<\/p>\n Epstein was supplied with young women to abuse by socialite buddy Ghislaine Maxwell. SDNY\/SplashNews.com<\/p>\n \u201cI think with Epstein, she was mad about him,\u201d the editor said of Maxwell. \u201cAnd the only way she felt she could get into his good graces was to participate in \u2014 and in the end, curate \u2014 his abuse of young women. <\/p>\n \u201cBut you never would have known it from seeing her work those parties. She deserves to rot in that prison for a very long time.\u201d<\/p>\n