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Investigation: Follow the Money

The Epstein Money Map

Jeffrey Epstein said he ran a DNA database, an algorithm shop and a science charity. The bank records describe a toll booth. This is where his money came from, where it went, and the DOJ file behind every box. Appearing here is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Open the Map ↓ The Receipts
$158MLeon Black to Southern Trust
$25MRothschild fee
$80.6MTaxes avoided (USVI est.)
$634.8MEstate, end of 2019

It started with one unsigned receipt. Ten and a half million dollars from Leon Black to Enhanced Education, Epstein's private foundation, dated December 2014. No wire ever matched it. So we pulled the next file. And the next one. A few hundred DOJ documents later, the receipt was the least interesting thing in the pile.

Southern Trust Company told the U.S. Virgin Islands it would build an "extensive DNA database." It booked about $183 million from two clients. One bought "financial algorithms." The other paid a fee that shrank if its own bank's DOJ penalty got too big. The only DNA work we found was a $30,000 invoice, and Epstein's accountant told the vendor what to write on it.

This map traces every entity we could document: the money in, the shells in the middle, and the money out. Start with the flow chart. Tap any box to see what it touched, then open its receipts for the DOJ files.

Appearing here is not evidence of wrongdoing. Many people and institutions on this map were paid by Epstein, or paid him, for reasons that may be lawful. Each box says what the record shows and links the DOJ file. Every EFTA chip is graded: A records (bank exhibits, signed contracts, government certificates, tax returns), B working papers (emails, drafts, ledgers, forensic analysis), C claims (lawsuit allegations, press pitches, statements by a party). DOJ links open the Epstein Library, which asks you to confirm your age first.

The Flow

Follow the money

Money inWho paid
The shellsEpstein's entities
Money outWhere it landed

Tap any box to light up its connections. Thicker lines mean more money. Dashed means promised but no payment found. Then open the receipts for the files.

The Receipts, Box by Box

Every entity, every file

Money In →

Who paid, and what they said they were paying for.

The Shells →

Epstein's companies, charities and trusts. Same owner, many names.

Money Out

Where it landed: funds, people, politics, "charity."

Nothing matches that search. Try a last name or an EFTA number.

Money in Epstein entity Money out A: records B: working papers C: claims $10.5M promised, not found paid Needs further investigation: leads inside the boxes

Said vs. Record

What they promised. What the files show.

What we still can't prove

  • Whether the $10M Plan D wired to Black's BV70 LLC in October 2018 returned the 2015 "donation" or repaid BV70's 2017 loans. Deutsche Bank read it as a return. The loan paperwork allows either.
  • Whether the $10.5M Enhanced Education receipt was ever paid. We found the draft and the promise. We did not find the wire.
  • What the "financial algorithms" were. The contract says they were delivered before it was signed. Nobody has produced one.
  • Who funded Enhanced Education's first $8 million. The balance was there by the end of 2010. The deposits are not in what we have read.
  • What Glenn Dubin's 2011 assignment of economic interest to Jeepers covered, and what it was worth.

Their side

Leon Black has denied wrongdoing. A 2021 review by the law firm Dechert, commissioned by Apollo's board, said Black paid Epstein $158 million for tax and estate-planning advice and found no evidence Black was involved in Epstein's crimes. Les Wexner has said Epstein misappropriated vast sums from him and that he cut ties long before Epstein's 2019 arrest. Stacey Plaskett said in 2019 she would give up Epstein-linked donations. No wrongdoing by Brad Edwards is suggested here; the record shows he chose a crime victims' charity for the gift.

Requests for comment. Brad Edwards has been asked about the Enhanced Education check. Requests are going to Leon Black's representatives, Edmond de Rothschild, Terje Rød-Larsen and Erika Kellerhals. Responses received by October 14, 2026 will be added here, in full if they ask.

The Receipts

Every file on this map

Numbered, graded and linked. Tap "cited in" to jump to the box. Files come from the DOJ Epstein Library and the court record in Government of the U.S. Virgin Islands v. JPMorgan Chase.

Got a document that belongs on this map? A wire, a 990, a ledger page? Send it. We read everything.

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