New Details About Leon Black’s Ties to Jeffrey Eptstein

New Details About Leon Black’s Ties to Jeffrey Eptstein

DealBook Business and PolicyLeon Black was a lucrative client for Jeffrey Epstein.Credit...Lucy Nicholson/ReutersOct. 12, 2020Good morning. (Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here.)New questions about Leon Black's ties to Jeffrey EpsteinShortly after Jeffrey Epstein was arrested last year on sex-trafficking charges, Leon Black, Apollo's billionaire C.E.O., was asked about his decades-long ties with the financier. Mr. Black played it down, but The Times reports that the two had a far deeper relationship than previously known, in which Mr. Black paid tens of millions to Mr. Epstein over a decade.Among The Times's findings:• A company that owned Mr. Black's yacht wired $22.5 million in 2017 to a company that managed Mr. Epstein's private jet, a transfer that raised questions at Deutsche Bank.• That same Black-controlled company donated $10 million