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A U.S. Senate committee investigating the tax avoidance work that Jeffrey Epstein, the registered sex offender, did for the private equity mogul Leon Black has questioned Bank of America over Mr. Black’s hefty payments to Mr. Epstein, according to a letter viewed by The New York Times. This month, Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, the […]
A wrought-iron door guards the address near Central Park where Guzel Ganieva lives on the upper floors of a townhouse dating from the Gilded Age. On a winter morning two years ago, the doorman stationed there took a hard look at two uninvited guests. The visitors, a man and a woman, wore the thousand-yard stare […]
Born to an Irish mother and Senegalese father, Leon wasn’t a huge reader, but he always loved telling stories. “I still remember a moment of pride in fourth class when a poem I’d written was read out.” He didn’t enjoy secondary school much, where, struggling with his identity, he was seen as a troublemaker, but […]
At the first Republican presidential debate ahead of the 2024 election, the candidates’ only significant disagreement around the topic of unauthorized immigration was in the level of vehemence with which they denounced it. With participants largely equating these migrations with drug trafficking, the tenor of most of the stage was summed up by Florida Gov. […]
Leon Black and Debra Black with the townhouse (Getty, Beauchamp Estates) The US Senate wants to know more about Leon Black’s financial connections to Jeffrey Epstein. Senator Ron Wyden wrote a letter explaining the US Senate Finance Committee’s investigation. Black is not only an art dealer, but also a former Museum of Modern Art […]
Billionaire art collector and Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) trustee Leon Black is being investigated by the US Senate Finance Committee over his financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein and some $158m in payments Black allegedly made to the late sex offender, some of which may have been in connection with Black’s $1bn art collection. The […]
By Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — Billionaire investor Leon Black struck a multi-million dollar settlement with the government of the US Virgin Islands to avoid any legal claims tied to a Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking investigation. According to a settlement document obtained by CNN, Black agreed in January to pay the Virgin Islands government $62.5 million […]
CNN — Billionaire investor Leon Black struck a multi-million dollar settlement with the government of the US Virgin Islands to avoid any legal claims tied to a Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking investigation. According to a settlement document obtained by CNN, Black agreed in January to pay the Virgin Islands government $62 . . .
By Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — Billionaire investor Leon Black struck a multi-million dollar settlement with the government of the US Virgin Islands to avoid any legal claims tied to a Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking investigation. According to a settlement document obtained by CNN, Black agreed in January to pay the Virgin Islands government $62.5 million […]
“As publicly reported, Mr. Black engaged and made payments to Jeffrey Epstein for legitimate financial advisory services, which based on everything now known, he very much regrets,” Whit Clay, a spokesman for Black, told CNN. ” Consistent with settlements of other major U.S. banks, Mr. Black resolved the USVI’s potential claims arising out of the […]