William Cohan on Leon Black’s Epstein Ties: ‘It Was Very Much a Business Relationship’

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COHAN: “Yes. His son. His son Ben is. Leon remains the largest shareholder in apollo. He’s a very wealthy man. We spent a lot of time talking about this and on the record in a very open way about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and what it was all about. And, you know, I would say, as far as I’m able to tell and fortunately, Jeffrey Epstein is not here to give us his side of the story, is it was very much a business relationship, and I know people are going to find that very hard to believe. But I would say by and large, it was a business relationship where Jeffrey Epstein was providing him with tax and estate advice that other people, even though they may be the best on Wall Street, were not able to provide him. And Jeffrey Epstein was a bit of an autodidact. He was an octopus. He got his fingers into every pie you can possibly imagine, and he used wedges. Once he got in a little bit, he would like take over. And leon, for whatever reason, allowed him to do that. In many cases. Some of it is quite inexplicable, but some of it, you know, there are there is logic to it. And yes, there might be some nefarious part of it that certainly those allegations have been made. There’s been no there’s been prosecutions, there’s been no criminal prosecution. There’s been some civil prosecutions that leon has won. So it’s a”