This Month
Ex-Barclays boss awaits judgment in court battle over Jeffrey Epstein
With the courtroom drama concluded, banker Jes Staley has to wait and see if his high-profile legal gamble to clear his name has paid off.
‘I have four days to live’: Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Giuffre
The 41-year-old has shared a picture from a hospital bed, saying a speeding bus collided with her car, and that she has gone into kidney renal failure.
March
Sell-off could worsen; Cannon-Brookes’ jet conflict; Myer’s big changes
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Ex-Barclays boss complains of ‘public humiliation’ over Epstein links
Jes Staley was questioned about having sex with a staffer for the New York financier during a court case seeking to overturn his British regulatory ban.
Epstein told Prince Andrew ex-Barclays boss was ‘like family’
Jes Staley is trying to overturn his ban from financial services, imposed in 2023 because of his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
Power bills to surge; US slams ‘dumpers’ Australia; Trump blasts Irish over trade
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Ex-Barclays boss Staley had sex with Epstein staffer
The evidence emerged in court as Jes Staley challenges the British financial regulator’s verdict that he downplayed his connection to late paedophile.
This ex-CEO is risking all to clear his name over Epstein
Former Barclays boss Jes Staley is contesting a ban by UK financial regulators in a case that will again reveal big names tied to the late paedophile.
December 2024
How China won over Prince Andrew and infiltrated the palace
Publicly shamed over his links to Jeffrey Epstein and with no official role to speak of, the Duke had few places to turn.
November 2024
‘You got this’: Harris joins SNL for a pep talk With Maya Rudolph
The vice president’s appearance, in a sketch delivered across a fictional dressing-room mirror, contained a solid riff that poked some fun at Donald Trump.
January 2024
Epstein had enough info on Clinton and Trump to destroy 2016 election
Epstein’s younger brother, Mark, 69, has suggested his ties with powerful figures went further than have been disclosed.
Unsealed documents shed light on Jeffrey Epstein’s lurid world
Most of the documents do not include specific episodes of wrongdoing by men other than the disgraced financier, who was found dead in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019.
September 2023
JPMorgan to pay $117m to settle Epstein lawsuit with US Virgin Islands
The tentative settlement comes just weeks before a scheduled trial in federal court in New York City. The bank also settled with James Staley.
August 2023
Apollo sued over $881m tax payout to top executives
The dispute casts a spotlight on a series of hasty governance reforms aimed at improving Apollo’s public image amid a fundraising crisis.
June 2023
Misconduct by federal jail guards led to Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide
Negligence, misconduct and outright job performance failures enabled the wealthy financier to take his own life in August 2019, an investigation concluded.
JPMorgan’s Epstein settlement will change how all banks act
Many believe the penalty – the largest for a civil sex-trafficking case – has set an important precedent that has huge implications for the industry.
JPMorgan to pay $430m in settlement with Epstein’s victims
The tentative settlement follows weeks of embarrassing disclosures about the bank’s longstanding relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
May 2023
Bill Gates’ alleged Russian lover linked with Kremlin spy
The billionaire’s alleged mistress was an acquaintance of Anna Chapman, a member of a Kremlin spy ring who was exposed as a sleeper agent and deported from the US.
JPMorgan’s long ties with Epstein could prove costly
Two lawsuits claim that the largest US bank ignored signs about Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking because it was profiting from its relationship with him.
Epstein threatened to reveal Bill Gates’ ‘affair’ with young Russian
The late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein said he would expose the Microsoft co-founder over an alleged relationship he had with a bridge player in her 20s.