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...Black and Harris did not immediately respond to requests for comment....
...Harris collected sports teams....
...He had been a contender to replace Leon Black as chief executive last year but the job went to Marc Rowan, the architect of the company’s insurance ventures....
...“Sadly, there are always lawyers willing to file such nonsense when someone like Leon Black is paying the hourly rates,” she added....
...Leon Black, the billionaire financier who abruptly quit as head of Apollo Global Management after revelations about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, has secured the dismissal of a lawsuit in which...
...His co-founders, Marc Rowan and Josh Harris, each stand to receive more than $100mn, the lawsuit adds, with the remainder split between other executives. Read more on Apollo here...
...In a separate lawsuit filed in federal court, Black had accused his former Apollo lieutenant Josh Harris of co-opting Ganieva into an alleged extortion campaign as part of an effort to claim the top job...
...Earlier this year a federal judge threw out a lawsuit in which Black accused Josh Harris, his former top lieutenant at Apollo Global Management, of conspiring with Ganieva to publicise false allegations...
...These theories were fed and managed by the now ex-president,” said Leon Victor de Queiroz, a political scientist at the Federal University of Pernambuco....
...Apollo Global has raised $13bn for its first flagship buyout fund since co-founder Leon Black left the private equity group last year over his long association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein...
...“When this case was first filed we immediately said that Leon Black did this in retaliation,” Jeanne Christensen, a partner at Wigdor, told the Financial Times on Thursday....
...Harris spent most of his career at Apollo, the private equity firm founded in 1990 by billionaire financier Leon Black with a group of partners from the failed Drexel Burnham Lambert investment bank....
...Leon Black, the billionaire financier, has failed in his effort to persuade a judge that one of his top business rivals conspired with a Russian fashion model to publicise made-up allegations of sexual abuse...
...The late Vogue editor André Leon Talley was in the audience and took Smith under his wing....
...In athletics, Kenyan distance running phenom Faith Kipyegon has set three world records this year, and in swimming this week, Frenchman Léon Marchand just obliterated the last standing world record by the...
...Lawyers for a former top executive at Apollo Global Management have criticised the firm’s co-founder Leon Black over his long association with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, stating that Black...
...Leon Black has accused his former top lieutenant Josh Harris of exploiting a scandal involving the late Jeffrey Epstein to launch an “attempted . . . coup and smear campaign” in an effort to succeed Black...
...The Huntsman/Apollo inferno was also notable for the Huntsman family’s fury towards Apollo and two of its founders, Leon Black and Josh Harris, whom the Huntsmans believed had acted in exceptionally bad...
...Leon Black has accused his former lieutenant Joshua Harris of orchestrating a conspiracy to “retaliate and destroy” him after Harris was denied the chance to succeed Black as chief executive of Apollo Global...
...Leon Black is a well-known patron of the arts. At his alma mater, Dartmouth College, there’s even a “Leon D Black Professor of Shakespearean Studies”....
...For most of his years as Apollo Global Management chief executive, Leon Black worked from a sprawling Manhattan office that offered breathtaking views of Central Park....
...A prominent Wall Street lawyer called the Manhattan district attorney on behalf of his billionaire client Leon Black, prompting New York’s top prosecutor to open an investigation into whether the former...
...“We have to see how the economy progresses,” said Leon Victor de Queiroz, a political science professor at Federal University of Pernambuco....
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