Leon Black's sadistic mutilation of teenage genitalia: Federal prosecutors sat on it.
Victims' lawyers provided overwhelming evidence, including proffers, journals, and hush money wires. But Federal Prosecutors looked the other way.
Newly released documents from the DOJ reveal the depravity of Leon Black’s violent rape of multiple teenaged girls at Jeffrey Epstein’s New York townhouse. The documents show multiple lawyers for the victims, including Jeanne M. Christensen and Douglas Wigdor growing frustrated by federal prosecutors who failed to pursue Black. Christensen had provided overwhelming amounts of evidence to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.
“Outrageous that criminal charges have not been brought against him.” Christensen wrote to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2023.
Victims independently alleged Black had mutilated their bodies by suddenly clenching his teeth into their genitalia.
Specifically, a victim alleged that around 2001, Black raped her violently at Epstein’s townhouse in New York. The victim alleged Black “violently bit down on her vulva, labia and clitoris. The biting would get harder and his teeth clamp down more when she yelled out in pain.”
Another victim alleged she met Black at Epstein’s New York residence sometime in the early 2000’s. She gave Black a massage while he was on his stomach. Then he wanted to give her a massage. She recalled having difficulty breathing. Black violently sexually assaulted and bit her. Black later called her to meet for a drink. He paid her $5,000.
Another victim alleged Black had raped her around 2001-2002 in Epstein’s townhouse. The victim describe Black inserted something sharp in her vagina, on a massage table, while her head was on the floor, and her legs on his shoulders. “Excruciating.” The victim had spoken to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
Another victim was 16 years old when she was violently raped by Leon Black, who used adult sex toys in her rectum and vagina. She felt severe pinching in her vagina and began bleeding from her rectum. Black and others at Epstein’s house would not take her to the doctor and instead flew her out of New York the next day. The victim did not go back to New York after that. The next few years she was in Palm Beach of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
A victim alleged that Epstein and Black used to talk about a 10 year old victim. From 2001-2004, she was trafficked to at least 25 different men. The DOJ redacted the trafficker’s name. The victim also alleged someone, whose name was also redacted, had sex with men in front of the victim. And then handed the victim off to Maxwell and Epstein.
One account details how Black inserted a sharp objection into a victim’s vagina, causing her to bleed rectally.
Black is a financier who was closely associated with Jeffrey Epstein for decades. Black was formerly the CEO of Apollo Global Management and served as the Chairman of the Museum of Modern Art from 2018 to 2021. Black resigned after an internal investigation at Apollo revealed that the disgraced CEO had paid $158 million to Jeffrey Epstein.
In March 2021, Russian model Guzel Ganieva claimed in a series of tweets that she "was sexually harassed and abused by [Black] for years [and ultimately] forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement under duress." Black publicly stated that he had engaged in a “consensual affair” with her and that she was trying to extort him.
Ganieva responded in by filing a defamation suit against Black.1 Ganieva was represented by Jeanne M. Christensen. When other victims read Ganieva’s defamation suit, they contacted Christensen to provide evidence of being raped by Black. Christensen relayed their evidence to federal prosecutors.
Christensen explained to federal prosecutors that one of the victims was videotaped in a hotel having sex with three men. One of the men was a former friend of Leon Black’s. Christensen wrote that the video was circulating online.
A victim’s journal turned over to the U.S. Attorney’s Office and newly released by the DOJ described: “The blood from Leon is no longer there.”
Interestingly, Black’s company Apollo Global Management retained the law firm Dechert LLP to conduct an “independent” investigation into Black’s conduct, which after reviewing 60,000 documents found:
Dechert has seen no evidence that Black or any employee of the Family Office or Apollo was involved in any way with Epstein’s criminal activities at any time. There is no evidence that Epstein ever introduced Black, or offered to introduce Black, to any underage woman.
The defamation suit was dismissed when the trial court judge in New York determined that Guzel Ganieva had already received $9.5 million pursuant to a Non-Disclosure Agreement.
Blanche said there are pictures of child sex abuse that can't be shown. But perps have faces. Faces have names, Todd. FACES HAVE NAMES. RELEASE THE NAMES!
There’s that term “underage woman” again. There is no such thing.