Ana Obregón (Madrid, 70 years old) continues to dodge questions from the press as best she can after the publication last Tuesday in the newspaper The New York Times of an investigation which uncovered his links to the deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The last time the actress and presenter spoke to the microphones, wanting to know her reactions to the controversy that links her and her family to the pedophile mogul, was this Thursday, during an event for the Aless Lequio Foundation, an institution she created after the death of her only son and which raises funds for the fight against cancer. Given the interest of the journalists present, who asked him about Epstein, he assured that he did not want to distract attention from what had brought them to the meeting: “Diverting attention with these things that come from I don’t know how many thousands of years ago, I don’t think it’s relevant. Because it comes out in the New York Timess… I would have liked it to come out in the New York Times saying, “She and her son’s father are doing philanthropic work to help others, to fund this important thing,” Obregón said, referring to the work she and her son’s father, Alessandro Lecquio, champion.
Then, reluctant to continue talking about Epstein, Obregón added that his appearance in the press on a subject like this seemed to her: “A shame, appearing in the press. New York Times That’s why (for this reason) it makes me sick.” Previously, on the very afternoon when the American newspaper’s investigation was revealed, he already wanted to put the matter aside – at least he tried – on the television show. And now Sonsolesof which she is a collaborator. “I’m freaking out about all this because it’s not a tasteful dish. It makes me nervous to attach my name to such a depraved person,” she lamented before recalling again the beginnings of her friendship with Epstein – something she had already done in reality in 2021, two years after the billionaire’s suicide in prison – and emphasizing that it was only a friendship and not a romantic relationship: “Who is not going to take a liking to that for him, being alone in New York, he appears to you as a handsome prince with money…”.
The actress also wanted to take advantage of her intervention on television to deny any economic link between the pedophile and his family, which is in reality the main key to the investigation. The New York Timess, how Epstein himself began to make his fortune. “My father started working when he was 11 years old and worked like an animal his whole life. There was no economic relationship, it has nothing to do with my family,” he said on set.
In his memoirs published in 2012 under the title This is how I amthe actress of Ana and the 7 Already He spoke of a certain Jeff as his “guardian angel in New York”, whom he had met in the early 80s, when he was settling in the Big Apple. In the book, she even describes him like this: “Goodbye Jeff, the perfect man I never fell in love with. » Seven years later, in 2019, his idealized Epstein committed suicide in a New York prison cell while awaiting trial for sex trafficking of minors.
Two years after this death, in 2021, Obregón spoke in an interview with Vanity Fair and he referred to the deceased as follows: “He was my best friend in New York. A few years ago, my representative called me to tell me that there was a journalist from The Wall Street Journal that he wanted to talk to me because they were making a documentary on Epstein. I said I didn’t want to talk about anything. I thought, “Let’s see if they come and kill me now.” »
Articles published this week by The New York Times They go deeper into their bond, which wavers vaguely between friendship and romance – “she was fascinated by his charm and beauty, but in the end she only wanted to be his friend,” the article reads – and they discuss Epstein’s financial advice to Obregón’s family. This happened, according to the New York newspaper, when the brokerage firm Drysdale Securities collapsed and the Obregóns (Ana’s parents, who made a large fortune mainly through construction and real estate), along with other wealthy Spanish families, hired him to find their missing millions.
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