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The Epstein Files

File 135 - $404,000 a Year to Smuggle a Sex Offender Into the Academy Awards

The Epstein Files

NBN.fm

History, True Crime, News

4.1743 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This episode traces Peggy Siegal through the Epstein document archive, examining what the primary sources reveal about their connection to Jeffrey Epstein's network. Maxwell - deposition exhibits establishing Siegal within documented social circle; NYT (2019) "Jeffrey Epstein Was a Sex Offender. The Powerful Welcomed Him Anyway." - elite social acceptance; United States v. SIEGEL (1:23-cr-00207); Epstein v. Rothstein. Sources for this episode are available at: https://nbn.fm/epstein-files/epi...

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0:00.0

3 million pages of evidence, thousands of unsealed flight logs,

0:10.0

millions of data points, names, themes and timelines connected.

0:16.0

You are listening to the Epstein files, the world's first AI-native investigation into the case

0:23.6

that traditional journalism simply could not handle.

0:30.9

Welcome back to the Epstein Files.

0:33.3

Last time, we looked at File 134, the 16-year secret.

0:37.6

Today, we are analyzing File 135, The Publicist.

0:41.1

As always, every document and source we reference is available at Epsteinfiles.fm.

0:46.4

So let us start with a 2019 Washington Post report that places a New York film publicist

0:51.4

inside Epstein's influential network of defenders because that

0:54.9

single placement opens a documented question about the social infrastructure that kept

0:59.7

Epstein operating for a decade after his 2008 conviction. Right. So if you look at the documentary

1:04.7

record, it establishes a fundamentally different reality regarding Peggy Siegel than what you

1:09.0

might expect. Yeah. You know, when most people think of a film publicist, you picture someone standing on a red carpet

1:13.3

with a clipboard, someone making sure the paparazzi get a good photo of a director or

1:17.5

an actor.

1:19.0

A promotional coordinator, essentially.

1:20.8

Exactly.

1:21.6

But documents released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, or EFTA, prove that at the

1:26.7

absolute highest levels of New York and

1:28.5

global society, a publicist of her caliber functions entirely differently. She acted as a highly

1:33.8

fortified gatekeeper. She controlled the exact access points within the media, film, and entertainment

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