House Oversight Committee lawmakers were furious Friday after they received only one non-disclosure agreement involving Leon Black, a former associate of Jeffrey Epstein, according to reports.
The committee had issued a subpoena for Black, the Apollo Global Management founder, demanding all NDAs Black allegedly has related to the late convicted sex offender and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, Politico reported.
A spokesperson for Chair James Comer (R-KY) did not mince words — and signaled what would come next.
“Leon Black isn’t acting in good faith,” the spokesperson said. “The Committee agreed to extend the deadline two weeks for full production of all NDAs and his attorney has deliberately chosen to only produce one. This is unacceptable and the Committee will follow up with his attorney.”
Black’s attorney, Susan Estrich, confirmed she turned over a single NDA, one struck between Black and Guzel Ganieva, a woman he was once romantically involved with. That relationship ended with Black paying Ganieva roughly $9.5 million. Estrich says Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019, knew about the agreement. Ganieva later sued Black over allegations of sexual misconduct and defamation, but a judge threw out the case in 2023.
“The responsive information includes the only confidentiality agreement that predated Epstein’s death and the only one of which Epstein was aware. Epstein was not involved with drafting this agreement,” Estrich said in a statement. “This confidentiality agreement with Guzel Ganieva resolved her attempts to extort Mr. Black.”
“The New York State Supreme Court dismissed Ms. Ganieva’s baseless lawsuit against Mr. Black with prejudice and that decision was affirmed by an appellate court,” Estrich’s said. “Ms. Ganieva expressly acknowledged that she never met Epstein.”
But Congress was not just after one relationship’s paper trail.
Comer has called the material tied to Epstein and Maxwell as “vital” to keeping the investigation moving, and issued the subpoena in the first place only after Black refused to answer questions about the agreements directly.
“We need the NDAs to be able to move forward with the investigation,” Comer said.