Leon Black has hit back at the woman who accused him of raping her at Jeffrey Epstein’s home, claiming she’s not only lying about the assault, but also about having Down syndrome and autism.
Black is being sued by the woman, who has not been named publicly, over her claim that he violently assaulted her on a massage table at Epstein’s home in 2002.
He says her lawyers at the Wigdor law firm are determined to smear him and make him bleed a settlement.
Jane Doe’s case is the third by Wigdor attorneys against Black, a longtime Epstein associate, who paid him $158 million over five years for tax advice, and who paid Virgin Island prosecutors $62 million to have him out of court. to keep Epstein’s estate.
Black previously defeated one of the lawsuits Wigdor had filed on behalf of his ex, a Russian model, who said he had raped her.
Black with wife Debra in 2007. Before his relationship with Epstein became public knowledge, he was president of MoMA
This photo, taken by the rape prosecutor, shows who she believes was a private investigator hired by Leon Black in an SUV outside her home on July 27, two days after she filed her lawsuit. She says the woman in the car didn’t drive off until she called the police. Black denies sending the woman
Now he’s fighting this case and another from Cheri Pierson, a former receptionist who claims she too was abused by Epstein and traded to Black by him.
In legal documents obtained by DailyMail.com today, Black admits sending a private investigator to Jane Doe’s parents’ home, but insists the visit was not intended to intimidate them, as she claimed.
Rather, he says he was only conducting his own investigation of his accuser to support his defense in court.
He denies her claim that a white SUV parked in front of her house was sent by him.
In her original complaint, Jane Doe’s lawyers described in graphic detail how Black allegedly assaulted her on the massage table, sodomized her with sex toys, and even drew blood from her genitals while performing oral sex on her.
They claimed she was 16, vulnerable, and trafficked to Black by Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and a mystery woman referred to as “Elizabeth” in the lawsuit.
The original complaint described the woman as having mosaic Down syndrome, which involves internal chromosomal differences but does not manifest physically like other Down syndrome cases.
In today’s filing, Black’s lawyers say the woman was never diagnosed with such a condition.
Black’s lawyers also say her family believes she’s lying about being abused by Epstein.
She recently posted on social media that she had been abused by Jeffrey Epstein.
She had never made such accusations before. Her family told her they didn’t believe this was true, and she deleted the posts,” they say.
Black’s private investigator, Carlos Melendez, spent hours talking to her family and friends last week.
He says she was never diagnosed with any of the conditions she claims to have.
“While (she) claims to have autism and Mosaic Down Syndrome, she was neither diagnosed during childhood nor living at home during high school, and showed no symptoms or behaviors of either condition.
“Instead,[she]became aware of that behavior, studied it, and began deliberately displaying it in her 20s, to present herself as a person with autism.”
Black sits between Karlie Kloss and Jared Kushner during the 2016 tennis match
Black in Russia with Donald Trump in the 1990s on a business trip
Epstein with black. They are shown with Pepe Fanjul. We learned that Mr Fanjul only met Epstein once and before Epstein was charged
“For example, she once noticed that people with autism don’t look other people in the eye, and then she started avoiding looking people in the eye—a behavior she’d never exhibited before.
Similarly, the first time her family learned that (she) claimed to have mosaic Down syndrome was in her 30s, after a family member posted on social media about her child with Down syndrome, receiving positive support and got attention.
“According to her family, (she) has a history of seeking attention by any means at her disposal.
“(She) has used a range of different names and personas, has a history of making up alternate realities; a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder; and invents things that “become her reality,” read Black’s filings filed today.
Jane Doe’s lawyers had complained about the private investigator’s visits to her family and friends in an earlier statement to the court.
They used it as an example of why she wanted to remain anonymous.
Black says in his response today that he has never fought against her desire to remain anonymous.
He also denies her lawyers’ claim that his private investigator was there to intimidate her family, saying he brought cheesecake – something her lawyers painted as a way to gain access to his parents’ house – as a gesture of ‘courtesy’.
A massage table in Epstein’s Upper East Side mansion, where Jane Doe says she was raped in 2002
“The lead investigator assisting on this case is Carlos Melendez, an 83-year-old decorated Army veteran who is a licensed investigator.
“Each time someone agreed to talk to them, Mr. Melendez recorded the conversation, including the confirmation on the recording that the person knew they were being recorded, agreed, and spoke to him voluntarily and without coercion or inducement. ‘
In response to Black’s most recent filing, Jeanne Christensen, Jane Doe’s lawyer, said: “Leon Black’s frivolous claims intended to frighten and warn other women, and lawyers who may be representing them, to file their claims against him , is exactly why NYS adopted anti. -SLAPP legislation
“This is nothing but another feeble attempt to divert attention from the fact that he paid $62.5 million to the USVI and $158 million to Jeffrey Epstein.
“Unfortunately, there are always lawyers willing to file such nonsense when someone like Leon Black pays the hourly rates.
“We look forward to holding Black accountable in the pending cases against him.”
Leon Black denied the woman’s allegations and claimed he never met her
She previously told DailyMail.com that his claims against her law firm are a “conspiracy theory.”
Black’s conspiracy theories and finger-pointing are an obvious attempt to divert attention from his heinous actions. I don’t think anyone would be fooled by such nonsense.’
Black’s connections to Epstein have become clearer and more judgmental in recent months.
Between 2012 and 2017, he paid Epstein $158 million for tax and estate planning advice, despite running his own financial firm.
He also gave him a $10 million charitable gift the same month one of his ex-girlfriends received payments from a mysterious “E trust.”
The money was in exchange for her silence about her romance with Black, a married billionaire with four children.
Black also paid US Virgin Islands prosecutors $62 million to avoid being dragged into a lawsuit against Epstein’s estate.