Day 1 covered the number. $158 million paid to a convicted sex offender between 2012 and 2017. Apollo’s own board confirmed it.
Day 2 covers what that money bought access to.
Leon Black continued visiting 9 East 71st Street, Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse, after Epstein’s 2008 guilty plea. Apollo’s board confirmed the post-conviction visits in the Dechert LLP independent review filed with the SEC in January 2021. The board’s finding on the advice Epstein provided: it “rarely held up under scrutiny.”
Marc Rowan is the current CEO of Apollo. DOJ-released documents confirm Rowan met with Epstein multiple times after the 2008 conviction. Apollo manages over $650 billion in assets. Two teachers’ unions managing $27.5 billion in Apollo investments filed a letter with the SEC in February 2026 citing Apollo’s “apparent lack of candor” regarding the Epstein relationship.
In 2016, eight years after the guilty plea, Black sold Epstein a Giacometti sculpture for $25 million through an Epstein-controlled trust called Haze Trust. He then purchased a Cézanne for $30 million structured as a 1031 exchange. Both sides of the transaction were funded by Southern Trust, an Epstein entity operating under a 90% tax exemption granted by the US Virgin Islands government. The 2023 USVI settlement found Epstein used Black’s money to “partially fund his operations in the Virgin Islands.”
On March 11, 2026, Richard Kahn, Epstein’s longtime accountant, testified under oath before the House Oversight Committee. Kahn confirmed Black was one of five clients who paid Epstein. The other four named under oath: Les Wexner, Glenn Dubin, Steven Sinofsky, and the Rothschilds.
House Oversight has formally requested Black appear for deposition in May 2026. He has not confirmed.
No criminal charges have been filed against Leon Black.
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Day 2 of 2 — The Meetings.
Day 1 covered the number. $158 million paid to a convicted sex offender between 2012 and 2017. Apollo’s own board confirmed it.
Day 2 covers what that money bought access to.
Leon Black continued visiting 9 East 71st Street, Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse, after Epstein’s 2008 guilty plea. Apollo’s board confirmed the post-conviction visits in the Dechert LLP independent review filed with the SEC in January 2021. The board’s finding on the advice Epstein provided: it “rarely held up under scrutiny.”
Marc Rowan is the current CEO of Apollo. DOJ-released documents confirm Rowan met with Epstein multiple times after the 2008 conviction. Apollo manages over $650 billion in assets. Two teachers’ unions managing $27.5 billion in Apollo investments filed a letter with the SEC in February 2026 citing Apollo’s “apparent lack of candor” regarding the Epstein relationship.
In 2016, eight years after the guilty plea, Black sold Epstein a Giacometti sculpture for $25 million through an Epstein-controlled trust called Haze Trust. He then purchased a Cézanne for $30 million structured as a 1031 exchange. Both sides of the transaction were funded by Southern Trust, an Epstein entity operating under a 90% tax exemption granted by the US Virgin Islands government. The 2023 USVI settlement found Epstein used Black’s money to “partially fund his operations in the Virgin Islands.”
On March 11, 2026, Richard Kahn, Epstein’s longtime accountant, testified under oath before the House Oversight Committee. Kahn confirmed Black was one of five clients who paid Epstein. The other four named under oath: Les Wexner, Glenn Dubin, Steven Sinofsky, and the Rothschilds.
House Oversight has formally requested Black appear for deposition in May 2026. He has not confirmed.
No criminal charges have been filed against Leon Black.
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