DiCaprio and Kardashian quizzed by FBI over links to fugitive financier

Kim Kardashian and Leonardo DiCaprio were questioned by the FBI over ties to a fugitive billionaire playboy.

Kardashian flew home with $350,000 (£292,000) given to her by Jho Low after gambling in Las Vegas.

And DiCaprio said he and Low were so close that they partied together and called each other “my man” and “Ldogg.” The details are in recently declassified FBI documents on Low, who is accused by the US of embezzling billions of dollars from Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund 1MDB.

He was charged with money laundering, bribery and other crimes by the Justice Department in 2018 and is a fugitive, believed to be in China. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, Kardashian, a reality TV star, told the FBI that Low gave her $100,000 (£83,000) for fireworks for her 2011 wedding.

One night in Las Vegas, she was playing baccarat in a private room and was ready to leave, but was persuaded to stay by a friend who said they had “heard stories about Low giving people chips at the end of the night,” the documents said.

Kardashian won a hand. As she tried to transfer her winnings to Low, he told her to keep it. She said she went to the casino counter and got $250,000 (£208,000).

FBI agents wrote: “[She] put the garbage bag full of money in her hand luggage and boarded a plane.” She collected the rest in a garbage bag on a later trip to Vegas

DiCaprio’s ties to Low, who briefly dated supermodel Miranda Kerr, were deeper. Low helped finance his movie The Wolf of Wall Street. The star met Low in 2010 and said he was told Low was a “Mozart of the business world.”

They introduced their mothers and talked about starting a $1 billion (£830 million) fund to pay for DiCaprio’s films and a theme park in Asia based on his films. DiCaprio received freebies from him, including an Oscar won by Marlon Brando. Low has denied wrongdoing. The US has returned more than £1 billion of allegedly embezzled money to investors.