Lawmakers expected to press billionaire Leon Black about Epstein ties
Source: NBC News
June 25, 2026, 5:00 AM EDT
WASHINGTON — “Please call Leon Black.”. That phrase appears more than 300 times in the Jeffrey Epstein investigative files released by the Justice Department, some sent in emails to Epstein by his personal assistant. Black, for years a powerful billionaire Wall Street player, and Epstein had a business relationship stretching back decades.
“Leon, as you are well aware, there is little I won’t do for you or at least try to do as a friend,” Epstein wrote in one email to Black in 2014. “And a great deal that I have already done (both known and some things that will need to remain unknown.)”
Lawmakers are expected to press Black on Friday when he testifies before the House Oversight Committee investigating the federal government’s handling of the Epstein case. They are hoping to uncover more about the financial web Epstein wove that funded his sex trafficking operations and have said they believe Black may have played a role.
The former CEO of Apollo Global Management is the latest in a line of America’s powerful ruling class, including Bill and Hillary Clinton and Bill Gates, who have gone before Congress to discuss their ties to the man who preyed on women for years. Black’s attorney, Susan Estrich, said in a statement to NBC News that Black had called for an independent investigation of his relationship with Epstein.
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