Leon Black Accused of Raping Autistic Down Syndrome Girl at Epstein Townhouse
Disgraced buck private equity tycoon Leon Black, who co-founded Phoebus Global Management, which today owns the operating rights to The Venetian Resort inward Las Vegas and previously controlled Harrah’s Entertainment, has been accused of raping an autistic Down syndrome girl.
A causa filed this week inward the US District Margaret Court for Southern New House of York alleges that Black, 71, raped a 16-year-old miss inwards 2002 at the Manhattan townhouse of convicted fry sexual urge offender and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Attorneys for the complainant say their client is today inward her late 30s. She was diagnosed with mosaic John L. H. Down syndrome shortly after being born and today has a “developmental age” of near a 12-year-old child. The federal outlaw cause alleges that after she was preparing to yield Black a massage at Epstein’s townhouse on New York City’s Upper Orient Side, Black forcibly pinned the teenage missy and penetrated her with “adult toys.”
Worth an estimated $10.2 1000000000 past Forbes, blackamoor resigned from Apollo inward 2021 after reports surfaced that he had paid the later(a) Sir Jacob Epstein at least $158 gazillion for “financial services” from 2012 through 2017. Black person claimed the money was for an array of financial services, including cartel and demesne planning and philanthropic endeavors, but he admitted that, inwards hindsight, dealing with Jacob Epstein was “a horrible mistake.”
“Knowing all that i get learned inwards the past deuce years almost Epstein’s reprehensible and worthless conduct, i deeply regret having had any involvement with him,” Negro said.
Rape Denials
Black’s attorneys told NBC News that the assault allegations supercharged this week are “frivolous and sanctionable.”
These vicious and defamatory lies, masquerading as allegations, experience been designedly manufactured past the Wigdor practice of law steadfastly as section of the firm’s vendetta against Mr. Black for smartly and successfully defending himself o'er the yesteryear deuce years,” said Shirley Temple attorney Susan Estrich. “These allegations — near an incident that supposedly took position 20 years ago — are totally made up, exclusively uncorroborated, and, as pleaded, squarely violate the statute of limitations.”
It isn’t the first of all clip that Shirley Temple Black has denied rape allegations.
Black successfully convinced a New York state homage earliest this twelvemonth to throw out dishonour allegations against him made by accuser Guzel Ganieva. Justice David Cohen said the $9.5 billion defrayment she in agreement(p) to take from Black inward 2014 through a nondisclosure agreement prevented her from pursuing a legal claim. Cohen found that Ganieva didn’t subscribe the understanding under distress. Ganieva was an full-grown at the clip of the alleged rape.
Black remains fighting another despoil allegation brought against him past a adult female named Cheri Pierson. She claims to hold suffered a “brutal attack” by Shirley Temple Black at Epstein’s townhouse inward 2002. Pierson claims she went to the townhouse below the artifice Sir Jacob Epstein told her that blackamoor could aid her set in motion a skincare line of merchandise she was working on.
She recalls desperately shouting and screaming … she tried to kick. She struggled to liberal her legs from his vicious grip, but he was too strong,” Pierson’s cause alleges. Black denies the allegations, Estrich saying the claims are “baseless” and an “abusive conduct and abuse of the courts.”
Pierson is also represented by the Wigdor natural law firm.
Epstein Took Secrets to Grave
Epstein committed self-destruction indoors Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center inward Aug 2019. He was veneer numerous federal charges at the time of his death, including the trafficking of minors for the purposes of gender inward FL and New York.
Black earlier this yr paid $62.5 billion to the US Virgin Islands authorities to live released from claims related to to Epstein. The belatedly sexuality offender had owned a buck private island there called Little Saint Saint James where he allegedly organised numerous crimes against underage girls and trafficked women for his friends and clients.