Named in the Epstein Files

Peggy Siegal

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Also known as: Margaret Siegal
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Background

New York-based entertainment publicist with four decades of experience arranging screenings and generating Oscar campaign buzz for major studios including Universal, Warner Bros., and Sony. Known for high-profile client dinners and access to elite social, political, and media figures in New York. Siegal appears extensively in the Jeffrey Epstein case files as a key social facilitator who helped rehabilitate Epstein's standing in elite New York circles after his 2008 Florida conviction for soliciting a minor.

Documents show she received more than $913,000 from Epstein-linked entities. Emails in the files show regular contact from 2009 through April 2019, three months before Epstein's federal arrest. Siegal organized a dinner at Epstein's Manhattan townhouse for Prince Andrew in 2010, bringing together media figures and celebrities.

In a 2011 email exchange released by the House of Representatives in 2025, Epstein asked Siegal to recruit Arianna Huffington to publicly discredit Virginia Giuffre and direct reporters to investigate his accusers. In 2026, newly released DOJ files included a 2009 email in which Siegal, writing from Kenya, offered to "bring a little baby back for you....or two" -- language that drew significant public attention and scrutiny. Siegal later gave a lengthy interview to New York magazine describing the relationship as a mutually beneficial exchange of access for gifts and payment.

She described receiving a Cartier clock early in the relationship and said Epstein spoke to her as if they were old friends from their first conversation. In 2019, Netflix, FX, and Annapurna Pictures severed ties with Siegal following the federal charges against Epstein. Her four-decade career in Hollywood publicity effectively ended.

No criminal charges have been filed against her.

Flight Log Appearances
Date From To Aircraft Passengers
2001-03-15 Teterboro Airport, NJ Palm Beach International, FL N212JE (Gulfstream II)
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