Leon Black Accused of Raping 16-Year-Old With Down Syndrome
A disturbing new lawsuit accuses billionaire Leon Black of violently raping a 16-year-old girl with autism and a rare form of Down Syndrome at sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s New York mansion in 2002.
On Tuesday, a woman identified as Jane Doe filed a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court claiming that Epstein instructed her to give his “special friend Leon Black” a sexualized massage, during which he is accused of brutalizing her to the point that she began bleeding.
Because of Doe’s condition, identified in the complaint as mosaic Down Syndrome, her developmental age was about 12 years old and she had “neurological disabilities and health issues.” As a result, the filing states, Doe was “a perfect target” for Epstein and his girlfriend and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.