Overview
- Justice Department files list Jes Staley as a successor executor in 2012 and as a full executor in 2013 and 2014, with Larry Summers named a successor executor in 2014, while neither appears in the final 2019 document.
- The disclosures were released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which compelled the department to turn over unclassified materials tied to the financier’s affairs.
- UK regulators previously determined Staley’s relationship with Epstein went beyond professional ties, leading to a 2023 ban from senior financial roles, and tribunal transcripts show Staley said he refused to serve as trustee or executor.
- Emails previously released by Congress show Summers remained in contact with Epstein through 2019; Summers has said he is deeply ashamed, stepped back from several roles including Harvard teaching, and a spokesperson now says he had no knowledge of being listed in a draft will.
- The document trove also describes an Austrian passport bearing Epstein’s photo but another name and 48 diamonds found in a safe, part of broader materials tied to Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell cases.