Carole Radziwill Says She Was 'Floored' by Sai De Silva 'Peppering Her With Questions' on Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell Ties in 'RHONY'

Carole Radziwill has had enough of her Real Housewives of New York City costars grilling her over her alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

During the Tuesday, October 20 episode, Radziwill, 63, complained to fellow housewife Erika Hammond about Sai De Silva's line of questioning during the cast's trip to Moskito Island.

"She was peppering me with questions, like as though I was a criminal," Radziwill said of the exchange, which aired the week before. "I was just like, so floored."

During the episode, Radziwill claimed that she never "knew or heard" of Epstein, saying that Maxwell, 64, "never spoke of him."

De Silva, 45, asked Radziwill if she had ever visited Epstein Island, to which she replied no.

She then pressed Radziwill about her connection to Maxwell, asking, "So what was your relationship to Ghislaine? Weren't you two really good friends?"

"If you read the press, we were," Radziwill flatly replied. In a confessional with producers, Radziwill added, "In the early 2000s, it would be strange if you didn't go out to a big event in New York and Ghislaine wasn't there."

"I was friendly with her. We had a couple of mutual girlfriends and when I would see Ghislaine, it would always be with these mutual girlfriends," she continued. "But I didn't know Jeffrey Epstein. I never met him. She never talked about him."

Radziwill claimed she met Maxwell in London shortly after her late husband, Anthony Radziwill, died in August 1999, and set her up on a date with ex-Prince Andrew after hearing she was abroad alone.

"I get a call and she said, 'This is Ghislaine Maxwell, you know, I'm sorry to hear about your husband. Let me have my friends take you out for dinner.' And I was like, 'No, no, no, I'm good, thank you so much,'" Radziwill recalled. "But she was kind of insistent. You know, I gave in, and I was like, 'Okay.' And I would say, half an hour later, maybe even less. I get a call on my small Nokia phone from the Duke of York."

Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for s-- trafficking of minors in connection with Epstein. In early 2026, Radziwill raised eyebrows when her name and past communications with Maxwell surfaced in Epstein-related files.

The Bravo star previously described Maxwell as a "social climber" and was particularly interested in her because of her connection to the Radziwill family.

"I knew, probably all along, that she would not ever be interested in Carol DiFalco," the RHONY star said, using her maiden name. "But she was very interested in Carole Radziwill. She was, like, a social climber, so if you had money, access to money, power or, say, a very famous last name, she made it her business to know you."