Lucy Nicholson/Reuters Want this delivered to your inbox each day? Sign up here . New questions about Leon Black’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein Shortly 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 in 2015 to a charitable foundation created by Mr. Epstein. • Mr. Epstein received several million dollars from another Black-controlled company that the Apollo chief used to buy much of his billion-dollar art collection. • Mr. Black donated at least $5 million to Harvard professors, a process facilitated by staff members for Mr. Epstein (who himself had been blocked by Harvard following his 2008 guilty plea in Florida to a sexual crime charge involving a […]

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