Black successfully convinced a New York state court earlier this year to dismiss rape allegations against him made by accuser Guzel Ganieva. Justice David Cohen said the $9.5 million payment she agreed to take from Black in 2014 through a nondisclosure agreement prevented her from pursuing a legal claim. Cohen found that Ganieva didn’t sign the agreement under distress. Ganieva was an adult at the time of the alleged rape.<\/p>\n
Black remains fighting another rape allegation brought against him by a woman named Cheri Pierson. She claims to have suffered a “brutal attack” by Black at Epstein’s townhouse in 2002. Pierson claims she went to the townhouse under the ruse Epstein told her that Black could help her launch a skincare line she was working on.<\/p>\n
\nShe recalls desperately yelling and screaming \u2026 she tried to kick. She struggled to free her legs from his vicious grip, but he was too strong,” Pierson’s lawsuit alleges. Black denies the allegations, Estrich saying the claims are “baseless” and an “abusive conduct and misuse of the courts.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Pierson is also represented by the Wigdor law firm.<\/p>\n
Epstein Took Secrets to Grave<\/b><\/h2>\n Epstein committed suicide inside Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center in August 2019. He was facing numerous federal charges at the time of his death, including the trafficking of minors for the purposes of sex in Florida and New York.<\/p>\n
Black earlier this year paid $62.5 million to the US Virgin Islands government to be released from claims related to Epstein. The late sex offender had owned a private island there called Little Saint James, where he allegedly organized numerous crimes against underage girls and trafficked women for his friends and clients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Leon Black, who once controlled Harrah’s Entertainment, is facing new rape charges stemming from his time he spent with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":282778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,60],"tags":[87252,81989,87253,87254,87250,87251,82507,86185,84582],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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