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Leon Black’s New Legal Stunner

In a highly unusual development in the “Jane Doe” suit against the billionaire Apollo founder, Black’s lawyers are demanding access to sealed documents that they believe will show his accuser fabricated her story—and that she might not be an Epstein victim at all.

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Black’s legal team tracked down Doe’s family, including her mother, who told Leon’s investigators that the whole thing was a fabrication. Photo: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg/Getty Images
William D. Cohan
October 6, 2024

Since the shit started hitting the fan for Leon Black, the billionaire founder of Apollo, during the summer of 2019, he’s been busy swatting away one legal and public relations headache after another.  First, of course, there was his long, somewhat mysterious involvement with Jeffrey Epstein, the late, convicted pedophile. Black has maintained all along, including in his long interview with me earlier this year, that their relationship didn’t extend beyond the work that Epstein did to solve some of his complicated family tax- and estate-planning issues.