Comedian and television host. Named on the proposed seating chart for the 2 December 2010 dinner Jeffrey Epstein hosted at 9 East 71st Street for Prince Andrew, brought as Katie Couric's guest, and named in contemporaneous press coverage among the guests who were there. Her presence in the corpus is that dinner and its planning; no other contact with Jeffrey Epstein is documented in it.
Key Findings
- EFTA02415939: an assistant writes ahead of the dinner that 'If Katie Couric is able to attend the dinner at your house, she may want to bring a guest. Chelsea Handler,' describing her as a TV show host and comic
- EFTA01801477, EFTA01979325: the guest-tracking note records 'Katie Couric. She is asking Chelsea Handler and bf Brooks Perlin. She is trying to come. If Chelsea says yes, they will come.'
- EFTA00559879 (2 Dec 2010): the proposed seating chart circulated to Lesley Groff the afternoon of the dinner lists eleven people, Chelsea Handler among them, with Prince Andrew, Katie Couric, Woody Allen, Soon-Yi, George Stephanopoulos, Charlie Rose, Ali Wentworth and Brooks Perlin
- EFTA00751096, EFTA00751099: press coverage in the corpus reports that Prince Andrew 'was quizzed by guests including Katie Couric, George Stephanopoulos, Charlie Rose, Woody Allen and Chelsea Handler at the dinner thrown by Epstein'