Category Archives: Jeffrey Epstein

Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide blamed on jail’s ‘negligence and misconduct’

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US justice department watchdog cites failure to assign a cellmate and problems with surveillance cameras as factors in his death

The disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was able to kill himself due to a “combination of negligence and misconduct” by authorities at a federal jail in New York City, a US justice department watchdog concluded.

Epstein hanged himself in his cell at the Metropolitan correctional center in Manhattan in August 2019, while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.

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JPMorgan to pay Jeffrey Epstein victims $290m in lawsuit settlement

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District judge Jed Rakoff approved the ‘very large’ amount in addition to a $75m payout agreement with Deutsche Bank

A US judge on Monday granted preliminary approval to JPMorgan Chase’s $290m settlement with women who said Jeffrey Epstein abused them and that the largest US bank ignored the late financier’s sex trafficking.

The approval was issued by US district judge Jed Rakoff at a hearing in Manhattan federal court.

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Jeffrey Epstein allegedly tried to extort Bill Gates over extramarital affair

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Convicted sexual offender reportedly threatened to expose Gates’s relationship with Russian bridge player Mila Antonova

The convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein appeared to threaten Bill Gates and tried to blackmail the multi-billionaire over his extramarital affair with a Russian bridge player, according to a new report published by the Wall Street Journal.

Speaking to the Journal, sources familiar with the matter said that after Epstein found out about the Microsoft co-founder’s affair with Russian bridge player Mila Antonova, he threatened Gates into reimbursing him for tuition costs that Epstein had initially covered for Antonova to attend software coding school.

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Noam Chomsky and Bard College president had financial dealings with Jeffrey Epstein

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The MIT linguist says the late sex offender helped on a ‘technical matter’ related to his and his late wife’s finances

Jeffrey Epstein helped move $270,000 for renowned linguist Noam Chomsky and also paid $150,000 to Bard College president Leon Botstein, the Wall Street Journal has reported.

According to the newspaper, and also confirmed by Chomsky and Botstein, the late sex offender and financier had financial dealings with the two academics and had met with them multiple times.

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Elon Musk subpoenaed over JPMorgan’s role in Jeffrey Epstein’s activities

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US Virgin Islands is suing the bank over sex trafficking by Epstein, saying he ‘may have referred or attempted to refer’ Musk as a client

The US Virgin islands subpoenaed billionaire cars-to-rockets entrepreneur Elon Musk on Monday to obtain documents in its litigation into the role played by JPMorgan Chase bank in the activity of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein when he was a customer, according to a court filing.

The Virgin Islands government is suing the bank over sex trafficking by Epstein. The Virgin Islands has been trying to serve Musk with a subpoena, the filing noted, adding that Epstein “may have referred or attempted to refer” Musk to JPMorgan as a client.

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Old ghosts of Staley – and Epstein – haunt Barclays once again

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A new lawsuit against its former boss does not involve the bank, but awkward questions may be asked at this week’s AGM

Barclays could be forgiven for thinking it was out of the woods after parting ways with its chief executive, Jes Staley, in 2021, amid regulators’ concerns over his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

At the time, the board – which had already backed the boss over a separate whistleblower scandal in 2018 – seemed assured by Staley’s account of events. The bank even expressed disappointment over his departure as he prepared to challenge a (yet-to-be-released) UK investigation into the way he had characterised his ties to the disgraced financier.

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JP Morgan execs reportedly maintained contact with Epstein after dropping him as client

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Bank’s links to sex offender financier deeper than previously known, as it faces lawsuit brought by US Virgin Islands

Senior executives with the global banking giant JP Morgan maintained contact with disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for years after dropping him as a client in 2013, six years after he was charged with solicitation of a minor, according to a new report.

The allegation, reported in the Wall Street Journal on Friday, comes as JP Morgan, the world’s largest bank by assets, is being sued by an unidentified Epstein accuser and the US Virgin Islands – where Epstein owned a private island – for benefiting from human trafficking by ignoring internal red flags about his behavior.

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Ex-cop who shared cell with Jeffrey Epstein convicted of quadruple murder

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Nicholas Tartaglione faces life imprisonment after killing of four men over perceived money debt

A former New York police officer who shared a jail cell with Jeffrey Epstein at the time of the sex trafficker’s suicide executed four men and then buried them in a mass grave over what he perceived to be a debt of money, federal jurors determined on Thursday.

Nicholas Tartaglione faces life imprisonment after being found guilty of the killings of Martin Luna, Urbano Santiago, Miguel Luna and Hector Gutierrez, according to a statement from US justice department prosecutors.

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US Virgin Islands subpoenas four top businessmen in Epstein banking inquiry

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Sergey Brin, Thomas Pritzker, Mortimer Zuckerman and Michael Ovitz face questions about late sex criminal’s links with JP Morgan

A US Virgin Islands investigations into the sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to an American bank issued subpoenas to four wealthy business leaders on Friday, extending its reach into the highest echelons of tech, hospitality and finance.

The subpoenas issued to the Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Hyatt Hotels chairperson Thomas Pritzker, American-Canadian businessman Mortimer Zuckerman and former CAA talent agency chairperson Michael Ovitz are crafted to gather more information about Epstein’s relationship with JPMorgan Chase, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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JPMorgan and Deutsche to face lawsuits over Jeffrey Epstein ties

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Manhattan judge allows central accusations that banks benefitted from ties to sex trafficker to proceed

A US judge has ruled that a pair of lawsuits accusing two major banks of knowingly benefitting from ties to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein can proceed, though in a narrower form than had been initially filed.

The four-page ruling by Manhattan district judge Jed Rakoff granted motions by JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank to dismiss some counts against them, but permitted the central claims brought by Epstein accusers and the US Virgin Islands to proceed.

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JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank seek dismissal of lawsuits by Epstein accusers

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Women say banks enabled and ignored red flags about the financier’s sex trafficking

JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank have asked a US judge to dismiss lawsuits by women who accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse and said the banks enabled and ignored red flags about the late financier’s sex trafficking.

The banks, in papers filed on Friday night in Manhattan federal court in New York, said they did not participate in or benefit from sex trafficking by their former client, and that the unnamed women failed to allege violations of a federal anti-trafficking law.

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US Virgin Islands suing JPMorgan Chase over Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking

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Documents accuse bank of ‘turning a blind eye’ to illegal activities committed by their client

The US Virgin Islands is suing the bank JPMorgan Chase, accusing it of helping Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking of women and girls, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court in New York.

The documents submitted by the US Virgin Islands’ (USVI) attorney general accuse JPMorgan of “turning a blind eye” to illegal activities committed by Epstein – a client of the bank – on his private island, Little St James, which is part of the Caribbean US territory.

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Flood of sexual abuse lawsuits expected in New York as new law takes effect

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Adult survivors of sexual abuse can now file lawsuits even if the statute of limitations on their claims had already run out

A trickle of high-profile sexual abuse lawsuits passing through New York’s civil courts is likely to become a flood in the coming months because of a new, one-year window for time-expired claims.

Already, some bold-faced names from the worlds of arts, finance and politics have become involved, including Donald Trump and banker Leon Black.

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Ghislaine Maxwell says she feels bad for ‘dear friend’ Prince Andrew

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Comments will be embarrassing for royal who has tried to distance himself from disgraced socialite

Ghislaine Maxwell has spoken from a US prison cell about how she feels “so bad” for her “dear friend” Prince Andrew.

In her first lengthy interview since her conviction on sex-trafficking charges last year, Maxwell said she still cared about the Duke of York, who has been stripped of royal duties over his relationship with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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‘She say anything about me?’ Trump raised Ghislaine Maxwell link with aides

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Then-president voiced concern after socialite’s sex trafficking arrest, according to book by New York Times’s Maggie Haberman

At an Oval Office meeting in July 2020, Donald Trump asked aides if Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of the financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein who had been arrested on sex trafficking charges, had named him among influential contacts she might count upon to protect her.

According to a new book by Maggie Haberman of the New York Times, Trump asked “campaign advisers … ‘You see that article in the [New York] Post today that mentioned me?’

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Law firm sues Ghislaine Maxwell, saying it’s owed $878,000 for defense

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Haddon, Morgan and Foreman say Maxwell put brother in charge of paying legal fees but he only covered a fraction

A law firm that helped defend Ghislaine Maxwell, the socialite convicted of helping the financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls, is suing her, her brother and her husband, saying it was never paid for more than $878,000 for its work.

Denver-based Haddon, Morgan and Foreman alleged in a lawsuit filed on Monday that Maxwell put her brother Kevin Maxwell in charge of paying her legal fees after she was arrested in 2020 but that he only paid a fraction of what they had charged leading up to and during her trial. Kevin Maxwell urged the firm to keep working on appeal issues after she was convicted despite the unpaid bills and had blamed Maxwell’s husband, Scott Borgerson, for getting in the way of making payments, according to the lawsuit filed in Denver.

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Ghislaine Maxwell appeals against sex trafficking conviction

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The British socialite was sentenced to 20 years in prison last month

The British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has officially appealed against her conviction and sentence in the United States for sex trafficking.

The 60-year-old was found guilty by a jury of luring young girls to massage rooms for the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein to molest between 1994 and 2004.

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‘She ruined lives’: Ghislaine Maxwell’s victims tell of the impact of her abuse

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The British socialite maintained her innocence as women came forward to accuse her of sexual abuse and trafficking

Shortly before Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in her New York sex trafficking case, several of the former British socialite’s victims provided impact statements in court.

The victims who addressed Judge Alison Nathan described harrowing abuse at the hands of Maxwell and her one-time boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein and the longterm emotional impact that still haunts them.

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Ghislaine Maxwell put on suicide watch, but isn’t suicidal, ahead of sentencing

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Move prompts Maxwell’s attorney to seek to postpone her sentencing because she can’t properly prepare for the hearing

Guards at the federal prison where Ghislaine Maxwell awaits her sentencing for her role in an elaborate child sexual abuse case have placed her on suicide watch, though she isn’t suicidal, according to court records.

The move prompted the British socialite’s attorney to write a letter telling the judge in the case that Maxwell would seek to postpone her sentencing Tuesday because she can’t properly prepare for the hearing. Prison officials on Friday took away Maxwell’s legal papers – along with her regular clothes, toothpaste and soap – while putting her in solitary confinement and on suicide watch, said the letter from her attorney Bobby Sternheim.

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Archbishop of Canterbury suggests Prince Andrew wants to ‘make amends’

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Justin Welby made comment about the duke as he asked public to be more ‘open and forgiving’

The archbishop of Canterbury has suggested the Duke of York is “seeking to make amends” as he encouraged society to be more “open and forgiving” in general.

Prince Andrew stepped down from public life after the furore over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender, and earlier this year he paid millions to a woman he claimed never to have met to settle a civil sexual assault case.

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