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Well, I was today years old when I learned that one of the survivors of Jeffrey and his co-conspirators ring was a 16-year-old girl with mosaic Down syndrome and autism.
On July 25th of 2023, this survivor actually filed a lawsuit that appears to be active and ongoing to this day in the Southern District of New York filed under Jane Doe versus Leon Black. Leon Black is the man standing Donald Trump in this photo and just to avoid confusion, Leon Black is not related to Conrad Black who we talked about in the Les Wexner deep dive. Both Conrad and Leon Black had ties to Jeffrey's inner circle and are now tied to Donald Trump's inner circle, but they are not related.
So, let me tell you in a nutshell who Leon Black is and then we'll get into the contents of the lawsuit that was filed against him by Jane Doe. So, Leon Black is the son of Eli Black who was at one time the majority owner of the United Brands company. So, Leon was born into wealth and then he would later become a private equity investor. He is a co-founder of Apollo Global Management and he is the former chairman now trustee of the Museum of Modern Art. If you've been here for a while, we talked about the Museum of Modern Art during the Marina Abramović deep dive as she is heavily involved within the Museum of Modern Art. Ghislaine and Jeffrey also had many different connections to the art world as a whole, but especially the Museum of Modern Art which explains why Ghislaine has been photographed at different events where Marina Abramović was present along with many other artists. Marina and Jeffrey and Ghislaine actually have many different overlapping connections including they all have a friendship with for example Dasha Zhukova, the stepdaughter of Rupert Murdoch and they all also have connections to the Rothschild family, but Marina Abramović has never been implicated or accused of any wrongdoing within Jeffrey's ring. I figured I'd just share that because I knew as soon as I said that Leon Black is a trustee within the Museum of Modern Art, I knew people would bring up Marina Abramović. So, like that's the connection.
Anyways, Leon Black is married and has four children. One of those children is a son named Ben Black. Ben Black runs investment funds and he was recently appointed by Donald Trump literally just a few weeks ago he was appointed to run the US International Development Finance Corporation which invests in infrastructure, health care and food security. And when I tell you he was appointed weeks ago, he was appointed this month October 2025.
So, Leon Black met Jeffrey back in 1996 and the two would maintain a friendship for over 20 years. A year after meeting in 1997, Leon Black would make Jeffrey main trustee of his and his wife Deborah's foundation. The wealthy just love their self-named foundations and they just really loved making Jeffrey in charge of them. Very strange.
So, for years Leon was a client of Jeffrey's. Jeffrey did consulting work and tax mitigation strategies for Leon as he did for many other clients and over the years Leon Black paid him around $160 million for the work that he did on his tax mitigation strategies. Like we've talked about before, Jeffrey was basically hiding money from the government for his client using tax shelters, trust funds and offshore accounts. Due to Jeffrey's crafty tax mitigation strategies, he helped Leon Black avoid paying about $1.3 billion in taxes. It's almost like Jeffrey spending decades helping the top 1% hide money from the government to avoid paying taxes that they owe would have a really negative impact on the economy. It's almost like the hundreds of billions of dollars that Jeffrey helped hide so that his clients didn't have to pay taxes on their income would have really stimulated the economy if paid out properly by the 1%. It's also super interesting how the economy completely collapsed when a lot of people had to cut ties with Jeffrey at least publicly when he went to prison in 2008.
Anyways, since 2021 Leon Black has been sued for SA or R word a total of three times. For the sake of time, I'm just going to talk about the lawsuit that was filed against Leon Black on July 25th of 2023 where Leon Black was accused of R wording a 16-year-old girl who has mosaic Down syndrome and autism back in 2002 in Jeffrey's Manhattan mansion.
In her lawsuit, Jane Doe recalls meeting a woman named Elizabeth who was in her 40s when she was around 15 years old as Elizabeth was teaching a cheerleading program for youth in her county. And Jane Doe recalls meeting Elizabeth back in 2001 and I don't know if this person's real name is Elizabeth or that's just an alias they're identifying her as, but according to Jane Doe, Elizabeth took a very special interest in Jane Doe and Elizabeth would spend the next year procuring Jane Doe for Jeffrey and Ghislaine. According to the lawsuit, Elizabeth showed Jane Doe a lot of attention and became very close with Jane Doe's parents. As Elizabeth and Jane Doe spent more time together and Elizabeth was able to build trust up with Jane Doe's parents, Elizabeth convinced Jane Doe's parents to allow Jane Doe to sleep over at her home and travel with her to cheerleading related events. Ultimately, according to the lawsuit, those sleepovers were just an opportunity for Elizabeth to isolate and procure Jane Doe and those trips were opportunities for Elizabeth to take Jane Doe to different properties owned by Jeffrey so that she could be harmed by him and his friends.
One of these friends was Leon Black who Jane Doe claims in this lawsuit R worded her back in 2002 when she was 16 years old at Jeffrey's Manhattan property. The details of what occurred to her at the hands of allegedly Leon Black are so disturbing I don't think I can really even repeat them, but let's just say 16-year-old Jane Doe needed medical treatment after this attack took place. So, that case was updated about a month ago. It appears to still be ongoing and it is notable that in these filings Jane Doe's attorneys have accused Leon Black of sending private investigators to Jane Doe's parents home to intimidate them.
A year after Leon Black allegedly R worded 16-year-old Jane Doe, Leon Black also contributed a poem to Jeffrey's 50th birthday book that was given to him back in 2003. So, basically Leon Black, a co-conspirator and former client of Jeffrey, is actively facing litigation for R wording a 16-year-old with mosaic Down syndrome and autism and at the same time Donald Trump appoints Leon Black's son Ben Black to work within the administration. When I tell you there are so many Jeffrey adjacent people in this administration, it's so strange.
There's so much more lore between the connections between Leon Black and Jeffrey and other co-conspirators. I'm just going to leave you guys with that for now because if I keep going I'm going to open a whole other can of worms. Look at this photo, okay? We've got Karlie Kloss, okay? We've got Dasha Zhukova who is Rupert Murdoch's new stepdaughter because Rupert Murdoch is married to her mother. Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner and above them we have Wendi Deng who is Rupert Murdoch's ex-wife and next to Wendi Deng sits Leon Black. Like it's just ridiculous. That's all I have for you guys right now. We'll get more into this in the Jared Kushner deep dive which will be up for you guys next week.
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