Hermès CEO Axel Dumas says Jeffrey Epstein repeatedly pressed for a meeting with him

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The executive chairman of French luxury group Hermès, Axel Dumas, said on Thursday that Jeffrey Epstein had pressed to meet him in 2013, even turning up uninvited during a visit to one of the company's workshops in the Paris region.

"I only had one contact with Jeffrey Epstein, in March 2013, during a visit to the Hermès workshops in Pantin (near Paris). He was not on the guest list and joined a group of guests of Woody Allen and his wife, without any prior notice," said Axel Dumas, speaking to AFP at a press briefing on the sidelines of the publication of the group's 2025 annual results.