‘Personal, vindictive, inflammatory’: Epstein-linked legal battle ratchets up

Leon Black, one of New York's wealthiest men, locked in a bitter dispute with a former lover who accuses him of sexual violence

With Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal conviction working its way toward an appeal, and Virginia Giuffre's civil case against Prince Andrew caught up in arguments over evidence and depositions, another high-profile case linked to the convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is working through the New York court system.

It too is dragging in some of the biggest names in elite New York society, in this case sending shockwaves through the rarefied world of Manhattan finance.