Carole Radziwill made it clear she had no idea of the atrocities against girls and young women that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were responsible for, despite her name appearing in the Epstein files.
In an interview with The New York Times, Carole explained the shock she felt learning the truth about Ghislaine, who took Carole’s ‘author photo’ for her 2005 memoir, What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship and Love.
Carole’s friendship with Ghislaine:
Emails between Carole and Ghislaine, who was convicted in 2021 of trafficking minors for Epstein and sentenced to 20 years in prison, were included in the recently-released Epstein files.
One exchange saw Ghislaine call Carole the “most wonderful, the most beautiful, the smartest, the best, the brightest.” Carole responded, “Imagine knowing someone and even being friendly with them, and then they turn out to be a monster.”
According to Carole, she and Ghislaine were friends for about “five to six years” in the early 2000s. “The thing about her that made it easy for me to spend any time with her at all was that she was very intelligent, she was educated.”
“If you lined up 10 women and you asked, like, pick the woman who would be involved in an international sex trafficking ring, it would not be her.”
Carole didn’t know Jeffrey Epstein:
As for her connection to the president’s former bestie, Carole said she once saw Jeffrey Epstein at a party hosted by Ghislaine. But Carole said that Ghislaine never even spoke to her about Epstein.
“I never knew Jeffrey Epstein,” declared Carole.
While Carole never met Jeffrey, she was introduced to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (formerly known as Prince Andrew) for a column in Glamour she worked on.
