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.
The billionaire and a law firm representing his sexual assault accusers have lodged wild new claims against each other, including harassment and making up a medical diagnosis.
REUTERS/Fred ProuserThe legal brawl between billionaire Leon Black and a law firm that’s represented three women who’ve accused him of sexual assault is growing vicious—with Black suing the accusers’ counsel just days after they claimed the mogul sicced private eyes on one plaintiff and her family.Last month, a woman using the pseudonym Jane Doe filed a shocking lawsuit claiming the 72-year-old investor violently raped her in 2002 at sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s New York townhouse. Doe alleg