House Oversight Committee Issues Subpoena to Leon Black After He Denies Epstein Ties

The House Oversight Committee issued a subpoena to billionaire Leon Black on June 26, 2026, during a voluntary transcribed interview about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. The order requires Black to sit for another deposition next month and to produce nondisclosure agreements reached with Epstein victims. Rep.

Who chairs the committee, told reporters the session has the potential to be the most groundbreaking deposition of witnesses interviewed so far. Lawmakers have hundreds of questions prepared, including about specific bank transactions, messages, photos and communications with Epstein victims.

Black, cofounder of Apollo Private Management, stated in his opening remarks that he was not involved with and had no knowledge of any of Epstein’s heinous conduct.

He said he knew Jekyll but did not know Hyde, and he denied ever abusing a woman, engaging in sex trafficking, paying Epstein for access to women or being blackmailed by him. Black told the committee he first met Epstein in the 1990s and hired him as a financial adviser in 2013.

He said a prior investigation found he paid Epstein $158 million, later revised to $170 million, for tax and estate planning services.

Black added that Epstein falsely described the fees as tax-deductible 60-cent dollars, resulting in actual net payments of $158 million rather than the $95 million he expected over five years. Black said he cut ties with Epstein in 2018 after more than a year of increasing turmoil in their professional arrangements and did not learn of Epstein’s alleged abuse until the 2019 indictment.

He described Epstein’s 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution as an isolated incident at the time and said he now feels terrible for Epstein’s victims.