Deep in the trove of 20,000 documents released by the House Oversight Committee last week is an email from Jeffrey Epstein to Jeffrey Epstein, dated Oct. 8, 2016.
The entire message consists of a lengthy rough draft of what appears to be a profile of the disgraced financier that was never published.
Tucked in the middle of it — between dinner party vignettes, musings on the billionaire class and quotes from Epstein himself — is a reverent anecdote that serves to illustrate the stratospheric level of access that a onetime high school math teacher was able to achieve in just a couple decades.
“In 1994, just at the moment when Prince Charles is on television acknowledging his love for Camilla Parker Bowles, Jeffrey Epstein is sitting with his arm around Princess Diana at a dinner at the Serpentine Gallery in London,” it reads, noting that Diana “is wearing her ‘revenge’ dress that evening.”
Another version of the draft included in the document dump is slightly less descriptive, saying Epstein was simply sitting “next to” Diana.
