Who is Leon Black?

The uber-successful private equity giant has made headlines over his links to Jeffrey Epstein, but who exactly is the financier and art behemoth?

Words: Tom Ward

Bloomberg has called him “the most feared man in the most aggressive realm of finance” but this week the 69-year-old co-founder of $414 billion Apollo Global Management has made headlines for different reasons; his links to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

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