Axel Dumas, chief executive of the French luxury house Hermes, says he met Jeffrey Epstein in 2013 when the convicted sex offender invited himself to a workshop visit with filmmaker and actor Woody Allen and other guests.
“He was not on the guest list and joined a group of guests invited by Woody Allen and his wife, without prior warning,” Dumas says as the company presents its full-year financial results.
A photo in the mass of Epstein investigation files released by the US Justice Department last month shows the three men at an Hermes workshop outside Paris.
“Someone took the opportunity to take an impromptu picture, which he evidently kept preciously,” Dumas says. “And indeed, he had a bad reputation.”
“Afterwards, he tried to meet with me three times, which I always declined,” he adds.
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