Photo: Gillian Laub “It was like the devil had heard it in my voice. He’d in some way figured out the worst thing he could ask me.” Peggy Siegal , the once omnipresent New York publicist, is describing her first conversation with Jeffrey Epstein . It was a phone call — she believes in 2006 or 2007, sometime before his first criminal conviction. She says she’s never before discussed it. Siegal, now 78, was once the film world’s most coveted publicity power broker. For four decades, beginning in