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Matthew Goldstein

We have spent years looking into the money behind the sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein. One of his key patrons was the billionaire Leon Black, who paid him $170 million for financial advice →

David Enrich

We reviewed a cache of emails that shed new light on their decades-long friendship. The emails show Epstein demanding many millions more from Black and attacking his advisers and children.

Matthew Goldstein

The emails — full of insults, typos and grammatical errors — suggest that even though Epstein depended on Black for money, he believed he had considerable power in the relationship.

David Enrich

Our investigation found that Black sought his friend’s advice when he was looking to keep an affair under wraps. And he paid at least three young women associated with Epstein.

Matthew Goldstein

Black’s representatives didn’t answer our questions about why he’d paid those women. His lawyer said Black never abused women and denied that Epstein had influence over him.