Woody Allen says Jeffrey Epstein "couldn't have been nicer" when he was invited to a series of dinners at the home of the paedophile financier.

The director said he had not met Epstein before he was among the guests at a dinner in December 2010, which included the Duke of York.

Allen, 89, told The Sunday Times a publicist invited him and his wife, Soon-Yi Previn, to the dinner with "one of those British royals" and other guests.

Epstein had just finished a prison term for soliciting an underage girl for prostitution.

"We didn't know Jeffrey at all then, but we see all these people there and they all embraced him, so we figured, 'OK, he's a substantial character'," Allen said.

"He told us he'd been in jail and that he had been ... falsely put in jail in some way.

"He told us he was tr

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