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 children 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 evidence to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York—but prosecutors did nothing.
“Outrageous that criminal charges have not been brought against him.” Christensen wrote to the USAO in 2023.
Victims independently alleged Leon Black had mutilated their bodies by suddenly clenching his teeth into their genitalia.
Specifically, a Victim 1 alleged that around 2001, Leon Black violently raped her at Epstein’s townhouse in New York. Victim 1 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.”
Victim 2 alleged she met Leon 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 when he forced his obese body on top of her. Black violently raped and bit her. Later, he called her to meet for a drink and paid her $5,000—hoping she would keep quiet.
Victim 3 alleged Leon Black had raped her around 2001-2002 in Epstein’s townhouse. The victim described that Black had inserted something “sharp” in her vagina, on a massage table, while her head was on the floor, and her legs on his shoulders. “Excruciating.” Victim 3 recalled Black had caused her to bleed rectally. Victim 3 reported the rape to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
Victim 4 was 16 years old when she was violently raped by Leon Black, who forced sex toys in her rectum and vagina. Victim 4 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. Victim 4 never went back. The next few years she stayed in Palm Beach and Epstein’s island.
Victim 5 alleged that Epstein and Leon 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. Victim 5 alleged someone—whose name was redacted—had sex with men in front of her. And then handed the her off to Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein.
Leon 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. Apollo Management Group receives substantial funding from Saudi Arabia’s government.
Leon Black resigned after an internal investigation of Apollo revealed their disgraced CEO had paid $158 million to Jeffrey Epstein.
In March 2021, Russian model Guzel Ganieva claimed, in a series of social media posts on Twitter, that she "was sexually harassed and abused by Leon Black] for years [and ultimately] forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement under duress."
Leon Black publicly characterized his relationship with Ganieva as a “consensual affair” and that she was trying to extort him.
Ganieva responded in by filing a defamation suit against Leon Black.1 Ganieva was represented by high powered employment attorney Jeanne M. Christensen, a partner at Wigdor LLP.
When other victims discovered Ganieva’s defamation suit, they contacted Christensen to provide evidence that they too had been brutally raped by Leon Black. Christensen relayed their evidence to federal prosecutors.
Attorney Christensen wrote to federal prosecutors that one of the victims was videotaped in a hotel having sex with three men. One of them was Leon Black’s former friend. The video had been circulating on the Internet.
A victim’s journal turned over to the U.S. Attorney’s Office described: “The blood from Leon is no longer there.”
Leon 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.
To date, Leon Black has not been charged with a crime.
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.