Claim: Katie Couric had dinner at Jeffrey Epstein's house after he was convicted of sex offenses involving a minor

Verdict: True.

• The viral post from @PoliticalStacy (November 15, 2025) said Katie Couric had dinner at Jeffrey Epstein's house after he was convicted of being a pedophile.
• The conviction came first: On June 30, 2008, in Florida state court, Epstein pled guilty to felony solicitation of prostitution and, under a federal non-prosecution agreement, to a criminal information charging procurement of minors to engage in prostitution. He was sentenced to consecutive terms of 12 months and 6 months, then community control, and had to register as a sex offender. DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility executive summary (November 2020):

• "Pedophile" is the common label, not the charge title: Florida charged crimes against a person under 18 (procurement / solicitation involving a minor). Later 2019 federal sex-trafficking counts were still pending when he died. The checkable timeline is the public 2008 sex-offense conviction involving a minor, then the later dinner.
• The dinner was in December 2010, more than two years after the plea and after Epstein's Florida jail term (he served about 13 of 18 months and left custody in 2009). The event was at Epstein's Upper East Side Manhattan townhouse. Publicist Peggy Siegal organized a dinner framed around then-Prince Andrew, who was in New York that month.
• Couric has admitted she was there. In her 2021 memoir Going There, she described the townhouse ("Eyes Wide Shut with a twist," creepy chandeliers and body-part art), lasagna served in bowls, and Epstein holding court by the fireplace, with other guests including Prince Andrew, Chelsea Handler, and Woody Allen, according to contemporary coverage of the manuscript. On Watch What Happens Live (October 2023), she said she went because George Stephanopoulos was going and the dinner was billed around Prince Andrew shortly before William and Kate's wedding:

I was invited to go to this dinner at Jeffrey Epstein’s house, and George Stephanopoulos was going to be there, and it was right before Kate and William got married, and I thought, ooh, I better go, because it was in honor of Prince Andrew. And I thought, I better schmooze Prince Andrew. If George is, I need to get in there. And I didn’t know anything about Jeffrey Epstein at the time, and it was super weird. What can I say? And the person I was with said, did you notice how young the girls were who were taking the coats? And I said, I really didn’t. But of course, later, we found out everything about him.

• Other coverage and DOJ-released emails line up with attendance. The New York Times reported in July 2019 that in 2010 Couric and Stephanopoulos dined at Epstein's Manhattan mansion with a British royal. BBC and Guardian reporting on later DOJ Epstein-file emails describe Siegal inviting Couric, Stephanopoulos, Charlie Rose, Woody Allen, and others to a December 2010 dinner involving Andrew and Epstein at Epstein's New York home. BBC also reports contemporary press gossip about Couric talking to Andrew at the event about the royal wedding.
• Couric later said she did not know who Epstein was at the time. That is her explanation for going. It does not change the dates: the 2008 conviction was public, and the dinner was in 2010.

In plain language: Yes. Epstein was convicted in Florida in June 2008 on sex offenses involving a minor. Katie Couric attended a dinner at his New York mansion in December 2010. She has described going there in her own memoir and on television.