Hermes chief says Jeffrey Epstein visited workshop with Woody Allen

Axel Dumas, chief executive of the French luxury house Hermes, said Thursday that he met Jeffrey Epstein in 2013 when the convicted sex offender invited himself to a workshop visit with actor Woody Allen and other guests. "He was not on the guest list and joined a group of guests invited by Woody Allen and his wife, without prior warning," Dumas said as the company presented its full-year financial results.A photo in the mass of Epstein investigation files released by the U.S. Justice Department shows the three men at an Hermes workshop outside Paris."Someone took the opportunity to take an impromptu picture, which he evidently kept preciously," Dumas said. "And indeed, he had a bad reputation.""Afterwards, he tried to meet with me three times, which I always declined," he added....