Naomi Campbell and Jeffrey Epstein invited each other to parties and met in person for years before the latter’s death, new documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice revealed.
The files detail the communication between the supermodel and the convicted pedophile that went on even after Epstein served 13 months in prison in 2008 for soliciting prostitution from a minor.
Campbell’s name appears more than 250 times in the files, though many of them are duplicates.
The files reveal that Campbell, 55, and Epstein, who died in prison in 2019, met in 2001 at her birthday party in St. Tropez, which he was invited to by her then-boyfriend, Flavio Briatore.
Epstein’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, was also at the party, according to the documents.
Campbell’s lawyer, Martin Singer, told The Times that Epstein and Maxwell went to the party and “stayed for approximately 20 minutes.”
Singer also insisted that his client was unaware of Epstein’s “heinous criminal conduct until after his 2019 arrest” and was not in touch with him after that.
Campbell invited Epstein to more events over the course of 15 years, including her 2004 birthday party in St. Tropez and a Dolce & Gabbana party that marked Campbell’s 25th anniversary with the brand in 2010, which he RSVP’d to.
“Jeffrey will come plus two, if possible,” Epstein’s email account replied to the invitation for the latter event.
Campbell is listed in a document titled “List of People Who Need JE’s Address!” which details instructions on how people can mail letters, postcards and books to the Florida prison where Epstein was locked up in 2008.
But Singer told The Times that Campbell “has no idea who created this list or why her name appears on this document.”
“She never asked anyone for Epstein’s address to communicate with him in jail in Florida.”
In 2010, less than a year after Epstein’s prison release, Campbell invited him to her 40th birthday party in Cannes, France.
“We would really like you to be there as this is a private event for her closest friends and family,” the invite read, according to the DOJ’s documents.
But Singer told the New York Times that Campbell did not make the guest list and Epstein didn’t go to the party.
A few years later, Campbell unsuccessfully requested use of Epstein’s private plane to travel from New York to Miami in 2016 emails that appear in the files.
Epstein ended up having to fly out early “due to the snow,” per the documents, so he instructed the redacted recipient on the email to find Campbell a charter plane.
There’s no communication between Campbell and Epstein or their assistants after 2016 in the documents.
In his statement to the New York Times, Campbell’s lawyer said she “was on Epstein’s plane on a few occasions but she never observed any inappropriate conduct of any kind.”
Singer also claimed that Campbell “knew nothing about his appalling criminal conduct” before his 2019 arrest in New York.
“If my client had ever encountered any young woman whom she thought was being victimized by Epstein, she would have personally taken immediate action to help her,” Singer’s statement added.
Campbell has not been accused of any wrongdoing.
Page Six has reached out to Campbell’s lawyer for comment.
After Epstein was indicted for sex trafficking in 2019, Campbell spoke out about his “indefensible” crimes.
“When I had heard what he had done, it sickened me to my stomach just like everybody else because I’ve had my fair share of sexual predators, just like everybody else,” she said in a YouTube video at the time, according to The Independent. “Right now I stand with the victims. I can’t… they’re scarred for life. For life,” she added.
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