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亿万富翁投资者、杰弗里·爱泼斯坦前密友莱昂·布莱克于周四藐视众议院监督委员会的传票，未出席听证会，反而提起诉讼，质疑该委员会在爱泼斯坦调查中要求其作证和提交文件的要求合法性。
布莱克于6月收到传票，此前他突然退出了自愿出席的委员会听证会。作为阿波罗全球管理公司联合创始人，布莱克曾雇佣爱泼斯坦并与其关系密切，他在转录采访中拒绝回答有关保密协议的问题。离开听证会不久后，委员会主席、肯塔基州众议员詹姆斯·科默宣布发出两份传票，要求布莱克返回接受宣誓录像 deposition（宣誓证词录制），并提交与保密协议相关的信息。
布莱克曾雇佣爱泼斯坦担任财富管理顾问，但也据称向其倾诉包括婚外情在内的私事，这些婚外情最终都以签订保密协议收场。
在向华盛顿联邦法院提起的诉讼中，布莱克辩称传票无效，因为它们与委员会的立法目的“没有合法关联”，且提交保密协议将“暴露那些重视隐私、与爱泼斯坦没有已知或公开关联、通过谈判获得保密条款且拒绝公开的女性”。
科默在布莱克6月出席听证会后表示，他希望了解爱泼斯坦是否参与了布莱克的任何保密协议谈判。
布莱克的律师苏珊·埃斯特里奇周四在一份新闻稿中表示，委员会“正在进行钓鱼执法”。
“这不再是为了查明爱泼斯坦相关真相，而是企图摧毁布莱克先生。我们别无选择，只能提起诉讼，以应对国会权力的滥用，”埃斯特里奇说道。
委员会排名第二的民主党议员、加州众议员罗伯特·加西亚呼吁以藐视国会罪拘留布莱克。他周四在一份声明中表示，“通过拒绝今日作证，莱昂·布莱克如今正在藐视两份国会传票。”
加西亚指责布莱克“资助了爱泼斯坦对女性的虐待和人口 trafficking（人口贩卖）”。
科默周四上午对记者表示，他也支持以藐视国会罪拘留布莱克，并表示“我们需要看到那些保密协议”。
“我们非常失望。我想不必告诉在场各位，布莱克先生对本次调查来说是多么重要的证人，”科默说道。
委员会去年公布的电子邮件显示，爱泼斯坦至少知晓其中一场谈判。2015年，布莱克与一名曾有六年婚外情的前俄罗斯模特关系紧张，爱泼斯坦为此向布莱克提供建议。爱泼斯坦在邮件中建议布莱克考虑雇佣前执法人员去找该模特谈判。
“选择信息传递方式，我来选。——两位备受尊敬的前——[此处原文有省略]——比如移民、苏格兰场、旧金山警察局的人员。他们可以上门找她，提出协议条款，”爱泼斯坦写道，此人基本语法和标点使用都存在问题。
法庭文件显示，布莱克仅与两人讨论过该协议：爱泼斯坦和一名私家侦探。
布莱克在6月的国会听证会上表示，他首次遇见爱泼斯坦是在20世纪90年代，并于2013年开始付费聘请他提供财富管理建议。布莱克称他“为爱泼斯坦的受害者感到痛心”，但承认自己向爱泼斯坦支付了1.58亿美元的服务费。
布莱克表示，他雇佣爱泼斯坦部分原因是看重其与众多权贵的人脉。布莱克列出的人物包括自助大师迪帕克·乔普拉、美国驻土耳其大使托马斯·巴拉克、亿万富翁托马斯·普里茨克、领英联合创始人里德·霍夫曼、高盛前高管兼奥巴马白宫律师凯西·鲁姆勒、世界首富埃隆·马斯克、谷歌联合创始人谢尔盖·布林、微软创始人比尔·盖茨、前总统比尔·克林顿、亿万富翁彼得·蒂尔、特朗普亲信史蒂夫·班农以及银行家阿里亚娜·德·罗斯柴尔德等人。
他表示后悔雇佣爱泼斯坦，称其是个骗子。
“事后看来，我现在明白爱泼斯坦大肆夸张、添油加醋、操纵他人，还彻头彻尾地撒谎——毫无顾忌地伤害我和我的家人，”布莱克说道。“我现在意识到，他的欺骗不止针对我，还波及了众多精明人士。爱泼斯坦窃取他人的创意， falsely claimed to have been involved in decisions about investments（ falsely claimed to have been involved in decisions about investments此处按要求保留原英文？不，不对，应该翻译，哦不，原句是：He falsely claimed to have been involved in decisions about investments. 正确翻译是：他 falsely声称参与了投资决策？不，不，全部翻译，应该是：他谎称自己参与了投资决策。）”
布莱克是在众议院监督委员会作证的亿万富翁之一，该委员会还约谈了盖茨、商务部长霍华德·卢特尼克以及商人莱斯·韦克斯纳。
Billionaire Leon Black defies House subpoena, sues committee over Epstein probe
September 3, 2026 / 11:05 AM EDT / CBS News
By Graham Kates Reporter
Graham Kates is an investigative reporter covering criminal justice, privacy issues and information security for CBS News Digital. Contact Graham at KatesG@cbsnews.com or grahamkates@protonmail.com
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Leon Black, a billionaire investor and former close associate of Jeffrey Epstein, defied a subpoena to appear before the House Oversight Committee on Thursday, and instead filed a lawsuit challenging the demand for testimony and documents in the panel’s Epstein probe.
Black was subpoenaed in June after he abruptly left a voluntary appearance before the committee. The co-founder of Apollo Global Management, who employed Epstein and was a confidant, refused to answer questions about nondisclosure agreements during the transcribed interview. Soon after he left, the committee’s chair, Kentucky Rep. James Comer, announced a pair of subpoenas demanding Black return for a sworn, videotaped deposition and turn over information related to the nondisclosure agreements.
Black employed Epstein as a wealth management adviser, but also allegedly confided in him about personal matters, including extramarital affairs that ended in nondisclosure agreements.
In his lawsuit filed in D.C. federal court, Black argued the subpoenas are invalid because they bear “no legitimate connection” to the committee’s legislative purpose, and that turning over nondisclosure agreements would “expose women who value their privacy, who have no known or public connection to Epstein, who bargained for confidentiality and have refused to release it.”
Comer said after Black’s June appearance that he wanted to know if Epstein was involved in any of Black’s nondisclosure agreement negotiations.
Susan Estrich, an attorney for Black, said in a press release Thursday that the committee “is on a fishing expedition.”
“This is no longer about finding the truth about Epstein. It is about trying to destroy Mr. Black. We were left with no choice but to file this lawsuit in response to an abuse of Congressional power,” Estrich said.
The Committee’s ranking member, California Rep. Robert Garcia, called for Black to be held in contempt. He said in a statement Thursday that “by refusing to testify today, Leon Black is now defying two Congressional subpoenas.”
Garcia accused Black of having “funded Epstein’s abuse and trafficking of women.”
Comer told reporters Thursday morning he also supports holding Black in contempt, saying, “we need to see those nondisclosure agreements.”
“We’re very disappointed. I don’t think I need to tell anyone in here how important of a witness Mr. Black is to this investigation,” Comer said.
Emails released by the committee last year show that Epstein was aware of at least one such negotiation. Epstein offered Black advice in 2015 as Black tangled with a former Russian model with whom he had a six-year affair that ended contentiously. Epstein’s suggestions included writing in an email that Black should consider hiring former law enforcement officers to approach her.
“Choose method of message delivery, my choice. – two highly respected former —- fill in the blank, immigration, scotland yard. sfo. who may knock on her door and present the terms,” wrote Epstein, who had an aversion to basic grammar and punctuation.
Court filings show Black discussed the agreement with just two people: Epstein and a private investigator.
Black said during his June appearance before Congress that he first met Epstein in the 1990s, and began paying him for wealth management advice in 2013. Black said he feels “terrible for Epstein’s victims,” but acknowledged paying him $158 million for his work.
Black said he employed Epstein in part because of his relationships with a lengthy list of powerful people. Black named self-help guru Deepak Chopra; U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Thomas Barrack; billionaire Thomas Pritzker; LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman; former Goldman Sachs executive and Obama White House lawyer Kathy Ruemmler; the world’s richest person Elon Musk; Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Microsoft founder Bill Gates; former President Bill Clinton; billionaire Peter Thiel; Trump confidant Steve Bannon; and banker Ariane de Rothschild, among others.
He said he regrets employing Epstein, calling him a liar.
“With hindsight, I now see that Epstein exaggerated, embellished, manipulated, and outright lied — prolifically and without concern for me or my family,” Black said. “And I now see that his deceit was not limited to me but also extended to numerous highly sophisticated individuals. Epstein took credit for other people’s ideas. He falsely claimed to have been involved in decisions about investments.”
Black is among several billionaires to testify before the House Oversight Committee, which also interviewed Gates, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and businessmen Les Wexner.
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