Billionaire investor Leon Black was accused Tuesday of raping an autistic teenager inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan mansion twenty years in the past after the pedophile financier facilitated a “hand off,” new courtroom paperwork present.
In a criticism filed in Manhattan federal courtroom, the alleged sufferer — recognized underneath the pseudonym “Jane Doe” — stated she was solely 16 when Black pinned her down inside Epstein’s Higher East Aspect townhouse in 2002 and abused her with intercourse toys, inflicting her to bleed.
“Whilst Black grabbed her hand so arduous that she thought he broke bones, Jeffrey Epstein knew Jane Doe would by no means disobey,” the lawsuit states.
“Developmentally she is about 12, and when she was threatened to do as informed as a result of ‘dangerous women’ get in ‘bother,’ she did as she was informed.”
The lady claims she was trafficked by Epstein and his longtime gal pal Ghislaine Maxwell for a couple of yr earlier than the alleged encounter with Black.
She suffers from Mosaic Down Syndrome, a uncommon situation that impacts her neurological capabilities, making her a “excellent goal” for the wicked duo, the criticism alleges.
Doe says she met the debauched couple after her abusive cheerleading coach took her an “grownup social gathering” in a Washington DC suburb, the place Maxwell fawned over her “lovely brilliant blue eyes, blonde hair and excellent hair” that made her seem like a residing “doll,” the submitting states.
She was then routinely shipped out to Epstein’s infamous Caribbean island, his Palm Seaside dwelling and sometimes to New York, the place she was compelled to sexually “therapeutic massage” the creep, and later, his mates, based on the go well with.
“In 2002, at his Manhattan townhouse, 9 East 71st, Jeffrey Epstein executed a ‘hand off’ to his shut pal Leon Black,” the submitting alleges.
“However what handed on to Black’s palms from the palms of Jeffrey Epstein was a human being – not a ball.”
The lady alleges Epstein informed her that Black was “necessary” and a “particular pal” to him — although the she recollects considering that the previous Apollo CEO regarded like an “ogre,” based on the lawsuit.
She claims she was ordered to strip bare and provides Black the identical massages she gave Epstein. However Black as an alternative allegedly violently picked her up and threw her down on the therapeutic massage desk, the go well with states.
“She tried to scream however Black positioned his hand over her mouth and leaned over her whereas ripping off her shirt and underneath her skirt pulling her underwear off,” the submitting reads.
“Plaintiff was crying and terrified. Black requested her repeatedly what made her ‘Jeffrey’s particular lady’ and all through the assault referred to as her demeaning, shameful, disgusting names.”
When the lady tried to struggle again, Black allegedly threw her onto the ground and slammed her in opposition to the partitions, the go well with claims.
Epstein discovered her crying on the ground, however refused to take her to the physician, as an alternative claiming Maxwell would “deal with her” — solely to then put her on a aircraft dwelling, the submitting states.
The alleged harrowing assault brought on her to bleed and was so forceful she thought her pelvis had damaged, based on the go well with.
Doe claims she continued to bodily and emotionally endure from the alleged assault.
“Sadly, Ms. Doe’s expertise is yet another in a protracted line of despicable and heinous experiences inflicted on a minor trapped in Jeffrey Epstein’s internet – an internet that prolonged to a gaggle of highly effective and influential males, together with Leon Black,” the submitting states.
Black’s lawyer, Susan Estrich, rejected Doe’s claims, calling the lawsuit frivolous.
“He by no means met this lady,” Estrich stated in an interview. “He doesn’t know her in any respect. We’re assured the lawsuit is completely uncorroborated by any proof. It has nothing to do with Leon Black.”
The go well with was filed the identical day the Senate’s Finance Committee stated it was analyzing Black’s remedy of a number of trusts, and whether or not $158 million he paid Epstein for tax and property planning was correctly deemed revenue or presents for tax functions.
Black has additionally denied a number of different sexual assault allegations lodged in opposition to him, together with in a since-dismissed lawsuit by former Russian mannequin Guzel Ganieva, and one from Cheri Pierson, who additionally claimed Black raped her in Epstein’s dwelling twenty years in the past.
Black — who has a internet price of $10.1 billion, based on Forbes — left the non-public fairness agency he based shortly after a 2021 New York Instances story uncovered his ties to Epstein.
With Publish wires
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