Billionaire investor Leon Black has already had to step down as the CEO of one of the world's largest private equity firms and pay the U.S. Virgin Islands $62.5 million – to avoid handing over his correspondence with pedophile and suspected sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. (RELATED: Legal Hammer Drops On Largest US Bank For Possible Links To Sex Monster)
Despite his forever tarnished reputation, he remains a free man, having only paid the equivalent of a parking ticket.
However, things may be about to get much worse, as Black stands accused today of brutally raping a woman who has autism and a rare form of Down syndrome – when she was 16.
According to a lawsuit filed by the woman, the incident occurred at a seven-story-tall New York City townhouse when Epstein owned it.
Black allegedly met the minor, identified as Jane Doe, through Epstein. (RELATED: Epstein Island Visitor Throws Major Cash At Biden's Reelection)
The suit describes in graphic detail how the assault left the teenage victim bleeding and sobbing.
As CNN reports:
A lawyer for Black, Susan Estrich, said Black has never met the woman and called the lawsuit “frivolous” and full of “vicious and defamatory lies.” Estrich also says the suit was “manufactured by the Wigdor law firm,” which had filed a previous sexual assault complaint against Black that was eventually thrown out.
A spokesman for Black, Whit Clay, echoed Estrich's denial, saying the law firm “has an agenda” and that its credibility has been impugned by the dismissal of the previous suit.
In response to the vendetta claim, Jeanne M. Christensen, a partner at Wigdor, said that Black's “conspiracy theories and finger-pointing are an obvious attempt to shift the focus away from his heinous acts.”
Black, who is 71, is the co-founder and former CEO of Apollo Global Management. He left the private equity firm in 2021, shortly after a New York Times report revealed that he allegedly regularly dined with Epstein and paid him for consulting and other services. An internal Apollo investigation that documented his $158 million payment to Epstein found no wrongdoing.
The latest suit is the third to accuse Black of rape.
The disgraced billionaire ran into further trouble in June when he stonewalled the Senate Finance Committee's inquiries into why he paid Epstein $158 million in installments between 2012 and 2017.
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