Disney Princesses and Hot Tubs: JPMorgan Executive’s Creepy Texts to Epstein

Former JPMorgan executive Jes Staley and sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein exchanged numerous emails that included photos of women in suggestive poses and Staley’s praise for the sex offender, according to a newly unredacted court filing from the U.S. Virgin Islands. In one message, Staley even told Epstein, “I owe you much.”

The disturbing revelations arrived on Wednesday, after the territory’s attorney general filed yet another version of its lawsuit against JPMorgan—this time, with fewer redactions than its original. The complaint, filed in Manhattan federal court, paints a picture of a close bond between Staley and Epstein, who made cryptic references to Disney Princesses in their correspondence. (In 2021, the Financial Times reported that U.S. regulators were reviewing around 1,200 emails between the pair, from 2008 to 2012.)

The Virgin Islands AG sued JPMorgan last December, claiming the investment bank “turned a blind eye” to Epstein’s sex ring in order to reap millions by keeping him as a client. The government filed an amended civil complaint weeks later that unredacted some of its accusations about Staley, including the suggestion that he “may have been involved in Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation.”

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