Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. Leon Black the walking definition of a billionaire
with buyer's remorse. Every time this guy opens his mouth
about Epstein, you can practically hear his lawyers whispering, don't
say anything real. His excuses are so weak they should
be on a ventilator. I didn't know what Jeffrey was doing.
Oh really, you cut bro checks totally one hundred and
fifty eight million for financial advice. At that price, Epstein
better have been predicting lottery numbers, curing cancer, and building
a fucking time machine. But Leon, well, he was just
paying off a predator and pretending it was all consulting.
It's the kind of lie that sounds rehearsed because it's
been focus grouped by every damage controlled PR firm in Manhattan.
Leon acts like he accidentally tripped and fell into a
decade long friendship with a child trafficker. Oops, my bad.
I thought he was just eccentric. Yeah, sure, because nothing
instacraam's normal, Like a guy who pled guilty to abusing
miners and still gets invited to your Hampton's barbecue. We're
not talking about some random aquaintance from your charity gala.
This was your buddy, your go to guy. You're a
personal fixer in the shadows. You didn't just know who
Epstein was, Leon, You invested in who he was. You
bankrolled the monster because he made you money, Federigo, and
gave you access to the kind of power games you
could never get in the daylight. You knew that Epstein
wasn't clean, but you didn't care because he was useful.
And now that it's blown up, you want to pretend
that you were blindsided. Please, You knew exactly what kind
of animal he was. You just didn't care until it
threatened your stock price. And now when the heat's on,
suddenly you're the victim. Oh I was duped. I feel betrayed.
Spare me, bro. You weren't duped. You were complicit. You're
not some old, poor sap who got hustled by a
smooth talking con artist. You were part of the same circle,
jerking each other off with power, money and offshore accounts.
And that's what really keeps you up at night, doesn't it, Leon.
Not the guilt, not the victims, not the disgusting things
that happened under your nose. It's the fear that Epstein
took the wrong files to the grave and someone somewhere
has copies. These billionaires think that they can always pr
their way out of damn near anything. Leon's probably in
a conference room right now, surrounded by image consultants debating
whether to wear a navy tie or a remorseful shade
of gray for his next apology interview. They'll tell him
to look tired, sound humble, and say mistake instead of crime.
But no matter how many crocodile tears he squeezes out,
you can't pr your way out of that kind of filth.
You can't airbrush your soul, Leon. The stink of Epstein
doesn't wash off. It seeps into your bones, your business deals,
your foundation dinners, your obituaries. So yeah, Leon, cry about
how you were deceived, give us that sad billionaire routine.
Talk about how you're rebuilding trust and focusing on philanthropy.
Nobody's buying it. You weren't deceived. You were delighted. You
liked what Epstein could do for you until it stopped
being profitable. You enjoyed the proximity to the darkness because
it made you feel untouchable and now that it's all
gone to hell, you're just another coward in a beatpoke suit,
hiding behind lawyers in pr handlers, pretending ignorance is innocence
while the rest of us are trying not to vomit.
Because here's the ugly truth. Guys like Leon Black didn't
get where they are by being naive. They got where
they are by knowing exactly what they're doing. They built
empires out of moral compromise and then act shocked when
the walls start bleeding. Epstein wasn't some isolated freak in
their world. He was part of the infrastructure, and Leon
he was one of the contractors. Now he might get
on TV trying to act like you just found out
the guy was a monster. Well news slash Leon, The
rest of us figured it out years ago, right about
the time you were still cutting in checks. So drink
up that fake humility, pal may your little I learned
the hard lesson speeches to people who don't know better,
because in the court of public decency, the one that
still exists outside your Manhattan bubble, you've already been convicted.
No appeal, no settlement, no spin, Just another rich man exposed,
another coward trying to rewrite his sins as mistakes. And
you know what, Leon, We're not buying that bullshit anymore.
Today's article is from the New York Post and the
headline Jeffrey Epstein sent nasty emails to billionaire Leon Black,
demanding millions per year before arrest. This article was authored
by Catherine don Levy. Jeffrey Epstein sent a barrage of
nasty emails to his cash cow billionaire Leon Black, pressuring
him to fork over millions of dollars per year to
keep his lavish lifestyle afloat. Oh yeah, that's exactly what
it was about. Had nothing to do with the business
they were engaging in, right. Epstein was just looking for
Leon Black to fund his life because that's what Leon
Black and Apollo Global does. That's what they're known for.
Who's buying this shit? This is just like with a
less wextern nonsense. Oh, Jeffrey Epstein was stealing money from me. No,
he wasn't all part of the cover. I believe this
is part of that whole entire scheme. To be honest
with you, the disgraced financier in sex trafficker warned that
Black's financial advisors and retarded children had created a really
dangerous mess by attempting to plug the flow of cash.
According to emails obtained by The New York Times, Black's
retarded children Do you mean the dude that's working for
the Trump administration. Well, that certainly tracks. I never want
to have any more uncomfortable money moments with you. I
find it very distasteful, Epstein wrote in a November twenty
fifteen email to the Apollo Global Management founder. These guys
were so intertwined when it comes to finances that it's
not even funny. Imagine acting like you had no idea
what somebody was up to as you're dolen out one
hundred and fifty eight hundred and sixty eight million dollars
to them. Do you really think anyone's believing that shit?
Anyone's buying it? Nobody's buying it. Nobody. So to be clear,
my terms are as follows. I will only work the
usual forty million per year. It needs to be paid
twenty five million upon signing an agreement five million every
two months thereafter four or six months i e. March,
May and June. This can begin. If I'm able in January,
I will immediately stop work if the payment is not received,
he wrote, According to the outlet, that doesn't look like
a threatening email. To me, sounds like a guy that's
in business with somebody who wants to get paid. What
you think Leon Black's paying all his bills. These people
don't get rich by doling out money. I don't know
how many times I have to say it. Do people
really think that these ultra rich people are truly altruistic,
that they want to give all this money away, that
they care about you. They don't. And when we're talking
about guys like Jeffrey Epstein and Leon Black, they don't
care about anything but money and power. The emails to
Black by Epstein in twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen illustrates
the strong relationship between the two men, who were close
friends as well as business associates. Well, no doubt about it.
I mean, I don't think that we need any more
confirmation about how close these dudes were. They were very,
very close, and I'm not just talking about business. They
were friends, just like Jeffrey Epstein and Just Daily were friends,
just like Jeffrey Epstein and Mary Ardose were friends, just
like Jeffrey Epstein and Glenn Dubin were friends. We can
go on and on and on. When it comes to
the financial sector. The whole last lot of these people
are corrupt, every last one of them. Black seventy four
employed Epstein as his wealth management advisor, who offered guidance
on everything from taxes to the billionaire's world art collection.
You mean where he goes to stash his money that
he doesn't pay taxes on. That's real nice, huh. As
we're all cutting checks to the government, whether it's in
April or October. Mister Leon Black just buys another three
billion dollar art piece and stashes it somewhere. It'll continue
to gain wealth, right, it'll increase in value. But Leon
Black can't paying taxes on any of it. So what
advice was Epstein actually giving him? Was he giving them
advice on how to launder money? Sounds like a good
bet to me. For his services, Epstein was paid by
Black to the tune of more than one hundred and
fifty million dollars over the years, even after he was
busted in two thousand and four for molesting a teenage
girl and a fence that put him on the sex
offender or registry. That doesn't matter. Do you think these
people care if you're a diddler. There are only two
sins to these people, being powerless and being without any money.
Besides that, everything's all good. There are no sins to
these people. Remember your kids, you you're nothing more than
a pawn on the chess board. They're going to move
you however they want, whether it's war, whether it's fighting
with your neighbors, looking for the boogeyman under your bed.
As long as you're not focused on them, that's all
they really care about. Black quickly became Epstein's primary source
of income, but by twenty sixteen, it was clear that
the billionaire was reluctant to keep the money flowing. According
to the Times, that is so incorrect. The Times needs
to do better. Jeffrey Epstein had money coming in from
all sorts of clandestine sources that we have no idea about.
The leon Black money. Well, that was for him to say, hey,
look I'm getting some money coming in. Right, this is
what I do. I'm a money manager. But do you
really think that's what Jeffrey Epstein was doing. This man
was stashing money, he was hiding it, he was recovering it,
and he was engaged in all kinds of money laundering,
all kinds. And I can say that very, very confidently.
I've spoken with people that work at fince In or
worked at Fincein, and they've said the same thing. People
knew what was up, they were being told not to
act on it. So you can make pretend that there's
no cover up, you can make pretend that there hasn't
been a cover up, but there is. And what we're
living through right now is the end stage of that
cover up. And that's why it looks so messy and
why it looks so broken, because people are not buying it,
so they're accelerating all of the propaganda, right, all of
the bullshit, Oh it's fake, it's a hoax, it wasn't real, this, that,
the other thing. But what we're seeing here is the
very end stages of a cover up. And what I
say in stages, I don't mean it's gonna end tomorrow,
but I mean we're entering that phase right one way
or the other. It's either gonna go away forever as
far as the authorities are concerned, or it's gonna get
blown wide the fuck open. But to sit here and
act like Leon Black was Jeffrey Epstein's main source of
income is pretty wild. That's when Epstein threw a tantrum
across dozens of emails that he fired off through his
personal assistant, a battle that lasted several months, the outlet reported.
In one Epstein called Black's other financial advisors a waste
of money in space. In another, he claimed the team
he had created a really dangerous mess. Epstein even reiled
on Black's children, who he called retarded, for supposedly making
a mess of his estate. Epstein eventually offered a concession
after months of relentless money grabbing, telling Black, of course,
any non financial issues, I am always there for you
and will continue to be the best friend that I can. Look.
Money rules the world, folks, And if you think these
people have friends, you're crazy. Look how they treat each other.
You think they care about you, All that carrying on
they do, all those press conferences, all the political theater
we're seeing now, all of these people really truly despise you.
That's what it comes down to. And that goes for
our politicians as well. You think they respect you, they
respect what you want. They're way too busy sitting on
the internet and talking shit like a bunch of tweens
to actually get anything done. So if you're waiting for
them to save you, I got bad news. The same
people that they're acting like they're going to hold accountable
are the same people that are keeping the lights on.
The Times did not view any returning emails written by Black,
but the pressure campaign appeared to work. Black continued to
feed millions in fees and loans to Ebstein for the
next several years, until the perverted financier was arrested in
twenty nineteen for his decades long sex trafficking schemes. I
thought it was a hoax. I thought it never happened.
Isn't that what we were told? Black was pushed out
of Apollo in twenty twenty one for his ties to Epstein,
which date as far back as nineteen ninety And I'd
like to say that we had a lot to do
with that, not me, but everybody in general pushing for
him to be fired. Not that it did much right,
walked away with a big fat bag. Apollo still went
on to buy the Sands Corporation so perform, but at
least a step in the right direction. The Wall Street
genius denied any knowledge of Epstein's illicit behavior, but was
accused of dipping his toe into the debauch world. So
the Wall Street genius needed help from Epstein to manage
his money. Sounds legit. One woman who sued Black for
allegedly raping her in Epstein's Manhattan townhouse, a case she
eventually dropped. Another former girlfriend filed a lawsuit claiming the
billionaire sexually assaulted her, and Black turned to his wealth
manager for advice about paying her millions of dollars to
keep it quiet. According to court records and one of
the many emails obtained by the Times, that suit was
dismissed by a judge who ruled a woman could not
pursue the case after she received nine and a half
million from Black as part of a non disclosure agreement
that followed their six year relationship. If you need to
have an NDA for your relationship, chances are you're a
dirt bag. I just don't get it an NDA. Here's
an idea. Just be a decent person, Be honest and
be decent. Is that too hard? I guess it is.
Black also allegedly wired hundreds of thousands of dollars to
at least three women who were associated with mister Epstein
for unknown reasons unknown. Huh, well, I wonder why he
sent that money. I'm sure that they just had a conversation, right,
They're just hanging out talking about this or that. Nothing
untowards happened, because nothing like that ever happened in Epstein's orbit.
Susan Estrich, a lawyer for Black, asserted that all payments
from Black to Epstein were purely for legitimate tax and
estate planning services, as proven by an outside law firm
hired by Apollo to review the pair's relationship, the good
old infamous Decert Report. Did anybody believe that nonsense? I
most certainly didn't. And if he didn't do anything, why
was he pushed out of Apollo? After an exhaustive investigation
more than four years ago? The Decert law firm can
included that mister Black paid Epstein only for tax and
estate planning advice that saved him and his family billions
of dollars. To imply that Epstein somehow had influence over
mister Black is false and patently absurd. Indeed, it was
mister Black who fired Epstein because he was disruptive and
believed the fees for his services were excessive. Estrich said
in a statement to the Post, what an absolute bunch
of hooey. That's the equivalent of getting caught cheating, and
then when your girlfriend or your boyfriend asked you what happened,
You're like, see what had happened? Was? The Decorate report
also found that mister Black had no knowledge of Epstein's
criminal activities. Mister Black has never abused a woman in
his life. Any such suggestion is false. With Clay, a
spokesman for Black, emphasized, the billionaire very much regrets ever
making payments to Epstein. Well, he regrets being outed. I
doubt he regretted it at the time, or he wouldn't
have done it right. So let's cut the acleon. Nobody's
buying your hallmark redemption story. You can cry on CNBC
all you want talking about how you didn't know, how
you trusted the wrong man, how you reflected deeply on
your ethical responsibilities. You don't get to play the victim
after cutting one hundred and fifty eight million dollars worth
of checks to the most notorious predator of our time.
You don't get to shrug off decades of complicity like
it was a bad stock pick. You made your bed
and it's lined with the same silk sheets Epstein used
to lure girls into hell. You say you didn't know.
Come on, man, the whole damn world knew. We all
read the headlines. You had Google, you had lawyers, you
had private investigators. You probably had the NSA on speed dial.
But you want us to believe you, the Wall Street Wizard,
the king of due diligence, somehow missed the part where
your buddy was flying around with miners on a jet
nicknamed Lolita Express. Come on, Leon, you didn't miss it.
You ignored it because it was convenient, because it was profitable,
because in your world consequences or for other people. Now
you're out here talking about moving forward and rebuilding trust,
rebuilding what exactly you torched it? You vaporized it. You
buried whatever integrity you had next to Epstein's secrets. And
the worst part, you still think you can charm your
way out of it, like a public apology is going
to erase the smell, like a few million in charity
donations will make us all forget. You bankrolled the devil
and called it business. Let me make it simple for you, Leon,
Your excuses are as dead as your credibility. You were
part of the rod. You' fed the system that protected Epstein,
empowered them, and then pretended to mourn when it collapsed.
You can't unring that bell, you can't wash off that stain.
It's permanent, etched into your legacy, branded across every headline
that'll follow you to your grave. So go ahead, keep
polishing the lie, keep pretending the rest of us are
too dumb to see through it. But deep down you
know the truth, the one money can't bury and pr
can't rewrite. You weren't a victim of Jeffrey Epstein. You
were as reflection. And every time you open your mouth
to explain, all we hear is the sound of guilt
dressed up in a silk suit, still thinking it can
bluff its way out of hell. Well, bad news, Leon,
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