The saga of the late US paedophile Jeffery Epstein now has a Spanish chapter about the relationship between Epstein and Spanish actress and socialite Ana Obregón.
It follows revelations by the New York Times of new details of financial services provided by the convicted sexual predator to Obregón’s parents.
Ana Obregón quickly took to Spanish media to deny any link between her family fortune and Epstein.
Now 70, she has spoken publicly before of her relationship with Epstein, describing him as one of her closest friends during the time she spent at a prestigious acting school in New York in 1981-82.
In her 2012 memoir she called him: “The perfect man she never fell in love with.”
She had also been a guest in Epstein’s Manhattan home for a couple of weeks while she was looking for an apartment. After she returned to Spain, the two eventually lost touch.
The NYT added to the story that Epstein had been hired by Obregón´s parents and other Spanish investors to recover a substantial sum of money lost by a failing brokerage firm.
According to the newspaper, while the budding actress was studying in New York, the stock brokerage firm Drysdale Securities was sinking, taking the money of its clients down with it, including that of the Obregón family.
In question were $160 million (€136 million) in treasury bonds rerouted to off-shore accounts.
Again, according to the NYT, the actress’ parents and other Spanish clients of the firm hired Epstein to recover their money. Ana Obregón may have been the one who had asked Epstein for help.
After a year on the hunt, Epstein did find the missing bonds and recovered them from a branch of a Canadian bank in the Cayman Islands, earning a substantial commission. According to the US newspaper, the fortunes of the two parties – Epstein and the Obregóns – were linked to the operation.
Ana Obregón, who told the Spanish edition of Vanity Fair in 2021 that she had introduced Epstein to her parents, quickly took to Spanish media to tell the story from her point of view.
She recounted how Epstein had, as the NYT described, made romantic overtures to her while the two were on date one evening but that she quickly told him she was only interested in being friends.
According to the NYT: “Around 1982, a mutual acquaintance introduced him to Ana Obregón, a young Spanish actress and socialite.
“On their first date, he took her speeding through Manhattan in a Rolls-Royce. She was fascinated by his charm and beauty but in the end she just wanted to be his friend,” the NYT story claimed.
She denied any meaningful financial relationship between her family and Epstein, saying her father – a self-made real estate developer – had built his fortune from the ground up.
She denied there had ever been a moment of his going broke and being rescued by Epstein. When asked whether Epstein had, nevertheless, recovered the lost investments for her parents, the actress said she could not say either way.
“I don’t know for sure. I can’t say ‘yes’, ‘no’, or the opposite,” she said.
Obregón said she was shocked when she learned in 2014 that he was a convicted paedophile and possibly the leader of prostitution ring that included underage girls and called his behaviour “repugnant”.
