Woody Allen, in a letter to Jeffrey Epstein for his 63rd birthday, likened the scenes at the late convicted sex offender’s home to those in Dracula’s castle, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
The controversial filmmaker, in the 2016 letter among others from Epstein’s friends, wrote of the “many times” that he and his wife Soon-Yi Previn — his ex-girlfriend Mia Farrow’s adopted daughter — were invited to the seven-story Manhattan townhouse for dinners.
“Always accept, always interesting,” wrote Allen, who went on to note the “wide variety” of guests and that he was “well served” at the gatherings.
He continued, “I say well served — often it’s by some professional houseman and just as often by several young women reminding one of Castle Dracula where Lugosi has three young female vampires who service the place. Add to this that Jeffrey lives in a vast house alone, one can picture him sleeping in damp earth.”
The letter from Allen — who did not respond to the Times’ request for comment — references the 1931 classic film “Dracula” where the three vampire sisters (or “brides”) appear with the title character (played by actor Bela Lugosi) in his Transylvanian castle.
Allen went on to describe the “meagre” meal that he and Previn had during their first dinner at the home, only for the situation to improve as a result of his wife’s “badgering.”
After Epstein’s later dinners looped in local Chinese takeout, Allen wrote that the meals were then cooked at home and flowers were placed in the middle of the table to look “mildly warm and inviting.”
“This took time and a number of corrections but his meals have been tweaked into some sense of normal, civil, dining,” Allen wrote.
“The large phone and computer at his right hand does take some of the relaxed home-cooking atmosphere out of it but one can’t have everything not at Castle Dracula.”
The Times’ report, which also details birthday letters to Epstein from former Israeli Prime Minister and billionaire media mogul Ehud Barak, arrives less than a month after the Wall Street Journal’s story on a letter from Donald Trump featuring a racy drawing of a woman with a line about a “wonderful secret.”
The president — who has been dealing with backlash to his administration’s handling of the so-called Epstein files — has gone on to sue the WSJ, referring to the birthday card as “fake.”
Allen was notably accused by his ex-partner Mia Farrow of sexually abusing his then-7-year-old daughter Dylan Farrow in the 1990s. He’s never been charged over the accusation, which he has repeatedly denied.