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#LeonBlack

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People (6)

  • Carol Thomas-Jacobs Antigua-born Virgin Islands prosecutor who as acting attorney general revoked Jeffrey Epstein's 24-hour travel notice in 2019, signed the 62.5 million dollar Leon Black settlement in 2023, then became a Superior Court judge.
  • Debra Black Wife of Leon Black, trustee in the Black family's 2007 restructuring, co-donor of Harvard and Arizona State gifts that Jeffrey Epstein arranged, and holder of accounts that wired Epstein's fees.
  • Lawrence Krauss Lawrence Krauss is a theoretical physicist who organized Jeffrey Epstein's 2006 Virgin Islands gravity conference, ran an Arizona State institute funded by Epstein and Leon Black, and retired after a 2018 harassment investigation.
  • Leon Black Apollo Global Management co-founder who wired Jeffrey Epstein about 158 to 170 million dollars from 2012 to 2017 for tax and estate advice, left Apollo in 2021, and paid the Virgin Islands 62.5 million dollars.
  • Marc Rowan Apollo Global Management co-founder who met Jeffrey Epstein at his Manhattan house from 2013 to 2016, fielded Epstein's inquiry about buying his jet, and succeeded Leon Black as chief executive in 2021.
  • Ron Wyden Oregon Democratic senator since 1996 whose Senate Finance Committee staff investigated Leon Black's payments to Jeffrey Epstein and the banks that handled Epstein's money, from 2022 onward.

Organizations (7)

  • Apollo Global Management Private-equity and credit firm founded in 1990 by Drexel Burnham Lambert alumni, whose co-founder Leon Black's payments to Jeffrey Epstein led to a 2021 board review, his departure, and a Senate investigation.
  • Black Family Foundation Private foundation of Leon and Debra Black, established in 1997 with Jeffrey Epstein among its initial directors, which listed him on its tax returns until 2012 and funded Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics.
  • Dechert International law firm that conducted the 2020 to 2021 Apollo board review of Leon Black's 158 million dollars in payments to Jeffrey Epstein, which a Senate committee later said missed 12 million dollars.
  • Gratitude America Jeffrey Epstein's St. Thomas private foundation, recognized by the IRS in 2012, which took 10 million dollars from Leon Black in 2015 and paid Bard president Leon Botstein 150,000 dollars in 2016.
  • Program for Evolutionary Dynamics Harvard research center founded in 2003 with a 6.5 million dollar Jeffrey Epstein gift, directed by Martin Nowak, where Epstein kept an office and keycard access until 2018; Harvard closed it in 2021.
  • Southern Financial LLC Jeffrey Epstein's St. Thomas limited liability company, registered in 2013, which held his Apollo Global Management shares and anchored a Deutsche Bank relationship worth about 98.6 million dollars in 2016.
  • Southern Trust Company Southern Trust Company was Jeffrey Epstein's U.S. Virgin Islands entity that obtained large territorial tax benefits by claiming to run a DNA-database and data-mining business the Virgin Islands later alleged it never actually conducted.