Article continues below advertisementProminent Hollywood publicist Peggy Siegal revealed that dead financier Jeffrey Epstein was intensely eager to befriend director Woody Allen following his 2009 release from jail.Nearly 5,000 emails between Siegal and Epstein sent between 2009 and 2019 were released by the Department of Justice earlier this year.Siegal, who Hollywood has since shunned following the release of those explosive emails, said Epstein specifically asked her to invite Allen and his wife, Soon-Yi Previn, to an A-list dinner party at his Upper East Side mansion in December 2010.