During her February 2020 interview on Heather McDonald's podcast, Carole Radziwill explained that she and Jeffrey Epstein's ex-girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, "were friendly in the early 2000s." Radziwill remarked, "People are gonna regret saying mean things about me if they're saying mean things about my friendship [with Maxwell]."
However, the RHONY alum emphasized that they weren't close, sharing, "To be honest, I haven't seen her and really talked to her in over a decade. I don't remember. I think the last time I saw her was at a movie screening for Amelia Earhart or something. It was a movie [where] somehow she was involved."
That said, long before they actually met in person, Maxwell set up some dinners between Radziwill and Prince Andrew. The New York Times best-selling author recalled, "Right after my husband [Anthony Radziwill] died [of cancer] in 1999, I was in London ... for the holidays, because I just wasn't handling things perfectly. I just wanted to get away and I didn't want to be around anyone ... And I was there kind of on my own." Radziwill revealed, "Ghislaine and I had a very good mutual friend ... So, randomly, I get a phone call from Ghislaine Maxwell, who I never had heard of, didn't know, and she said, 'Our friend, Lisa, told me to call you ... I know a lot of people in London and I want to make sure you're okay and you have things to do.' And it was very nice."
