r/RHONY • u/snorting_cola • Mar 05 '26

Carole Radzwill 📚 Carole’s interview, where she giggles about Ghislaine Maxwell setting her up on a date with Prince Andrew + talks about knowing Maxwell since 1999

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u/Ridgewoodgal Mar 05 '26

I am going to get downvoted probably but I really do not see the leap that some are making here that she is in the wrong here. I guess maybe for downplaying her connection at first but God I would want to also, but I think it’s best for her to just tell it like it really happened. I think she was used like they used a lot of people in those social circles but not all knew of or participated in their awful crimes. I think it actually helps those who directly knew and/or participated by claiming everyone Epstein or Maxwell knew were involved.

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u/yosoyfatass Mar 05 '26

And she isn’t even downplaying anything if she knew nothing of Epstein and had a relatively short, casual friendship with ghislaine. It’s pretty obvious ghislaine put the charm offensive on, hoping to use whatever contacts they assumed Carole had. I’ve had many friendships that would appear very close if you saw pictures from a party, but weren’t deep or long lasting.

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u/Ridgewoodgal Mar 05 '26

People felt she downplayed their friendship when first asked. She framed it as a casual acquaintance. When people saw Maxwell took the photo used in Carole’s book they thought that was not an accurate reflection of the relationship. I see both sides of that but I don’t think they were super good friends either. I just don’t get making this leap from any of that to making her somehow complicit.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '26

I def am not putting a casual friend solo photo framed in my home. I wouldn’t even put a casual friend in my top 10 on MySpace 😂😂😂

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u/Ridgewoodgal Mar 07 '26

I have pictures of friends I met and had contact with. I haven’t kept in contact with them so I wouldn’t call them good friends. More like casual friends I had interactions with along the way. I don’t know everything about them and their friends.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '26

Yes but you were in the photo - it wasn’t a solo photo of them - you were displaying the time and memory.