Peggy Siegal

Peggy Siegal is an American entertainment and media publicist known for organizing private film screenings and events for prominent guests, a practice used to build awards-season buzz and shape a film’s reception. Her firm — with offices in New York, Los Angeles, and London — was described as one of the top 12 media marketing firms in 2018, and The Hollywood Reporter has characterized her as a long-established Hollywood publicist with an extensive A-list contact list.

Siegal’s connection to the Jeffrey Epstein record stems from social events she helped arrange and her continued association with Epstein after his 2008 conviction. Reporting on the Epstein files indicates that she organized an event tied to Epstein in 2010 whose guests included notable figures such as Prince Andrew, George Stephanopoulos, Katie Couric, and Chelsea Handler. The Hollywood Reporter reported that Siegal helped plan a dinner for Epstein featuring Prince Andrew, with guests including Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn, and that she said her motivation in working on the dinner had been to pass a copy of the film The King’s Speech to Queen Elizabeth via Prince Andrew. Variety reported in July 2019 that, following stories in The New York Times and The Hollywood Reporter, Siegal had been described as having helped Epstein gain access to A-list events.

The 2019 reporting carried significant professional consequences. Variety reported on July 22, 2019, that Netflix dismissed Siegal from a consultant role on its Emmy campaign strategy, that FX said it would no longer use her for promotional duties and tastemaker events, and that Annapurna Pictures removed her from oversight of a New York premiere. In a statement quoted by Variety, Siegal said: “Over the years I invited him to attend a handful of my events. I did not know at the time — and did not learn until recently — that he had been abusing underage girls. That just wasn’t common knowledge. Had I known that he had been accused of abusing underage girls, I would not have maintained a friendship with him. I am horrified as each of these women come forward and the accusations mount. I am deeply embarrassed by my relationship with him and that I allowed him to use me.” In a later interview with The Hollywood Reporter, she reflected on the toll the controversy took on her career, asking why she, then 78, should “suffer so badly for this story.”

Is Peggy Siegal in the Epstein files?

As of this writing, Peggy Siegal does not appear among the individuals catalogued as named in the released Epstein documents. Her documented connection to Epstein comes instead from contemporaneous news reporting — by Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and, as those outlets reference, The New York Times — describing social events she helped organize and her association with Epstein after his 2008 conviction, along with her own public statements of regret. Variety’s 2026 reporting, however, draws on her correspondence with Epstein contained in the files later released by the Justice Department. Being named or associated with Epstein in news reporting is not evidence of any crime or wrongdoing. Siegal has said she was unaware of Epstein’s abuse of underage girls and would not have maintained a friendship with him had she known. See the sources above for the specific, documented context, and the note at the bottom of this page.

Documents

Primary-source records that reference Peggy Siegal. Inclusion in these documents is not, by itself, evidence of wrongdoing; Siegal has said she was unaware of Epstein’s abuse of underage girls and would not have maintained a friendship with him had she known.

• DOJ Epstein Files (EFTA release portal) — Variety (February 2026) reports that the files released by the Justice Department contain extensive correspondence between Siegal and Epstein, documenting how she helped report on and populate social gatherings and arranged introductions for him, including after his 2008 conviction.