“I’m very good at giving away your money,” Woody Allen texted Jeffrey Epstein.

In December 2016, Allen and Epstein were deciding on recipients for a $15,000 donation for Epstein, according to documents in the latest Justice Department release of Epstein materials. Then the director — or, more likely, his wife and ex-step-daughter Soon-Yi Previn — had an idea.

“Please give the entire 15 to Hewitt,” said the message to Epstein from Allen’s phone. “As Woody said, that way they will definitely graduate Manzie.”

At the time, Manzie Allen, the adopted daughter of Allen and Previn, was a 16-year-old enrolled at the Hewitt School, an elite K–12 all-girls school just blocks from Jefrey Epstein’s Upper East Side mansion of horrors. (Also at the time, Previn was frequently using her husband’s phone and email to contact Epstein.) Hours after the text, Epstein’s gift came through. “I just got home and found the contribution,” said the message from........

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