Woody Allen

Woody Allen, born Allan Stewart Konigsberg, is an American filmmaker, writer, director, actor and comedian whose career spans more than six decades. He is known for films including Annie Hall (1977), which won four Academy Awards, Manhattan (1979), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and Midnight in Paris (2011), and has directed roughly 50 feature films over his career.

Allen is named in materials associated with the Jeffrey Epstein files. The released files indicate that Allen was a guest at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse from 2010 onward and that he wrote a letter included in a book marking Epstein’s 63rd birthday; photographs reportedly showed the two men together, including aboard a private plane. According to reporting by Variety and The Irish Times on emails released by the U.S. Justice Department, Allen and his wife Soon-Yi Previn often visited Epstein at his Upper East Side townhouse, and Epstein helped connect the family with Bard College president Leon Botstein in connection with their daughter Bechet’s application. A January 11, 2017 message sent from Allen’s account, which the reporting attributes to Previn, thanked Epstein “for getting Bechet into Bard.” A spokesperson for Botstein said the applicant “was accepted on the merits of her own qualifications for admission” and characterized Epstein as “a serial liar.” A representative for Allen did not respond to requests for comment for those reports.

In a September 13, 2025 interview with The Times, Allen described attending dinners at Epstein’s home, saying there were “about 20 people there” whom he and Previn knew from show business and that he “didn’t know Jeffrey at all then.” Allen said Epstein “couldn’t have been nicer,” and recounted that Epstein told them he had “been in jail” but claimed he had been “extorted” and was “trying to make up for it now by being philanthropic.” The Variety and Irish Times reports state that Allen has not been accused of any involvement in Epstein’s alleged abuse.

Is Woody Allen in the Epstein files?

Yes. Woody Allen is named in the Epstein files as a guest at Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse and as the author of a letter in Epstein’s birthday book, and emails released by the Justice Department show Epstein helped connect Allen’s family with Bard College in relation to his daughter’s admission. Being named in these documents is not evidence of any crime or wrongdoing; the reporting reviewed for this profile states that Allen has not been accused of any involvement in Epstein’s abuse. See the sources below for the specific, documented context.

Documents

Primary-source records that name or reference Woody Allen. Inclusion in these documents is not, by itself, evidence of wrongdoing; reporting on these records states that Allen has not been accused of any involvement in Epstein’s alleged abuse.

• DOJ Epstein Files (Epstein Files Transparency Act release) — The roughly three million pages of records the Justice Department released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act include emails involving Allen and his wife, Soon-Yi Previn. As reported by Variety and The Irish Times, the correspondence indicates the couple visited Epstein at his Manhattan townhouse and that Epstein helped connect the family with Bard College over their daughter’s application; a January 2017 message from Allen’s account thanked Epstein “for getting Bechet into Bard.” Bard’s president said the applicant was accepted on her own merits.