The two great underwriters of Jeffrey Epstein's $630 million fortune were the billionaires Les Wexner and Leon Black, who entrusted him with managing their finances and ensuring their tax bills stayed as low as possible. The Justice Department's files show that in the years before his 2019 arrest on sex-trafficking charges and jailhouse death, Epstein tried to nab another billionaire client: the real estate and media mogul Mortimer Zuckerman. Zuckerman, who is now 88, at one point had a higher public profile than both Black, the former CEO and chairman of Apollo Global Management, and Wexner,

The two great underwriters of Jeffrey Epstein's $630 million fortune were the billionaires Les Wexner and Leon Black, who entrusted him with managing their finances and ensuring their tax bills stayed as low as possible. The Justice Department's files show that in the years before his 2019 arrest on sex-trafficking charges and jailhouse death, Epstein tried to nab another billionaire client: the real estate and media mogul Mortimer Zuckerman. Zuckerman, who is now 88, at one point had a higher public profile than both Black, the former CEO and chairman of Apollo Global Management, and Wexner,