Lawsuit alleges billionaire Leon Black raped autistic teen at Epstein's townhouse
A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday accuses billionaire Leon Black of raping a 16-year-old girl with Down syndrome and autism in 2002 at the Manhattan townhouse of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
An attorney for Black, who co-founded the investment firm Apollo Global Management Inc. and was an associate of Epstein's, has denied the allegations, calling them "frivolous and sanctionable."
The lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court for Southern New York, alleges that the plaintiff, identified only as Jane Doe, was trafficked to Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, who was sentenced last year to 20 years in prison for recruiting and grooming teenage girls to be sexually abused by Epstein.
