NEW YORK (Reuters) -A woman who accused billionaire Leon Black of raping her two decades ago at the Manhattan mansion of disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has ended her lawsuit against the Apollo Global Management co-founder. Cheri Pierson dismissed her claims in a so-called stipulation of discontinuance filed with a New York state court in Manhattan on Thursday. The dismissal is with prejudice, meaning Pierson cannot sue again, and she cannot recoup her costs.
There has been a total of $154,302,339.05 in payments to Epstein victims as of Sept. 30, according to the quarterly accounting filed in the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands as part of the estate's ongoing probate case.
Lucy Nicholson/ReutersBillionaire Leon Black must face a woman’s sexual assault lawsuit and cannot seek sanctions against her attorneys, a New York judge ruled this week. In November, Cheri Pierson filed a complaint accusing the private equity mogul of raping her at sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s New York mansion in 2002. Since then, Black, 72, filed a motion to partly dismiss Cheri Pierson’s case—and requested penalties against her lawyers at Wigdor LLP. But on Monday, Manhattan Supreme Court
Andrew H. Walker/Getty ImagesNot long after a woman sued Leon Black, claiming he raped her at sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s New York townhouse when she was just 16 years old, the billionaire targeted her lawyers with a request for sanctions.The private equity mogul’s attorneys argue that Wigdor LLP, the firm representing Jane Doe, failed to properly vet her claims, and that Doe’s own family has questioned her accusations and said she “has a long history of dreaming up alternate realities.” (W
A Jane Doe suing Leon Black says her coach sent her into the clutches of Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein but the apparent woman in question says the claims are pure fiction.