May 24, 2023
A New York judge on Wednesday threw out a woman's sexual assault suit against former Apollo Global Management CEO Leon Black, finding that she hasn't shown she was under duress when she signed a nondisclosure agreement that paid her about $9.5 million.
May 05, 2023
A New York appeals court has struck several "scandalous and prejudicial" allegations in a model's rape case against billionaire private equity investor Leon Black, dropping discussion of and comparisons to Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein.
March 02, 2023
Leon Black — the billionaire ex-CEO of Apollo Global Management — won't get another chance to claim a woman suing him for sexual abuse and her attorneys at Wigdor LLP are actually engaged in a "fraudulent scheme" to extort him, after the Second Circuit on Thursday upheld a lower court's dismissal of Black's racketeering and defamation case.
October 07, 2022
Wigdor LLP urged the Second Circuit on Friday to toss billionaire Leon Black's suit accusing the firm of waging an extortion campaign against him, saying the former CEO of Apollo Global Management's "retaliatory" defamation claims are part of an attempt to repair his image after being linked to Jeffrey Epstein.