Writer Claims Graydon Carter ‘Cut a Deal’ With Jeffrey Epstein to Remove Allegations From Vanity Fair Piece
Investigative journalist Vicky Ward claimed Monday that former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter “cut a deal” with financier Jeffrey Epstein to spike allegations he molested a teenager from her 2003 profile of the wealthy financier.
In an interview with Mediaite founder Dan Abrams on his SiriusXM radio show, Ward said that she included testimonials from two sisters, one just 16, who claimed they were molested by Epstein. Ward said that Epstein paid a visit to Vanity Fair’s offices while she was reporting the story, and Carter removed the allegations from her profile.
Ward said the sisters were credible: “Not only did [their] mother corroborate the two sisters’ stories, so did a whole host of people of very good standing in New York.”
“We were ready to go,” Ward continued. But then Epstein visited Carter at Vanity Fair’s offices “and between them they cut a deal to take the women’s stories out.”
“It was explained to me that Graydon felt that [Epstein] was ‘sensitive about the women,'” Ward explained.
Ward also claimed Epstein threatened her unborn children (she was pregnant with twins at the time) over the piece. “I was then so fearful after everything that Epstein had said to me that I had to have 24/7 security on my babies because he had asked where I was giving birth,” she said.
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