Oxenberg spills the tea on the Kennedys, Jeffrey Epstein, her cousin Prince Andrew. "It’s everything I’ve been asked never to repeat."

In ‘90s New York, she entered the orbit of Jeffrey Epstein, whose dinner parties she attended at his Upper East Side townhouse, “a plush, professionally decorated showpiece in shades of beige.” It was owned at the time by Epstein’s billionaire patron, Leslie Wexner, whom she recalls as being “awkward and round and rumpled and damp and nervous and so decidedly lacking in all social graces.”

Also in the mix was Epstein’s alleged fixer, Ghislaine Maxwell. “If I saw her she would say, ‘You’re my poorest friend!” Oxenberg writes. “And she’d laugh, it gave her pleasure, made her feel in control perhaps.”

It would not be long before those circles and her royal relatives collided. She speculates that Epstein and Maxwell, known for drawing influential and wealthy people into their orbit, saw a high-status target in Prince Andrew, her second cousin once removed. “They were grifters and he was low-hanging fruit,” she says now. “He really was a hapless sap. But he’s my cousin so I love him, and I understand that being a dummy doesn’t make you a bad guy.”

PHOTO Christina Oxenberg, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia at Oxenberg’s 2013 book party for Life is Short: Read Short Stories.

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