Jeffrey Epstein's Gold-Plated Global Network - Leon Black Was Small-Time Player, with Big-Time Fallout
The depth and extent of Jeffrey Epstein’s web of relationships – that’s The Wall Street Journal’s preoccupation these days. For a number of months, it has been outing the large number of outsized global personalities who had been invited in – or made it their business to get in. They range from former Russian ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin to venture capitalist/kingmaker Peter Thiel.
So, given this big picture about Epstein’s reach Leon Black
seems like, well, a small-time player. Sure, he achieved billions in wealth and
created billions for Apollo clients. There was respect for him in finance. He had
a presence in the art world. He could bring together people so that they could get
an edge through access. But, his orbit of influence and power was not quite
that of various other Friends of Epstein. After all, billionaires have become a
dime a dozen.
Sure, that association probably brought professional and
personal advantages for Black. Yet the fallout from it seems out of proportion
to what myriad others have had to endure. Most, such as Bill Gates and Donald
Trump, have gotten off with a “regret.”
So, why has the scandal been so sticky for Black? Has he helped
create that situation through his own seemingly ham-handed public relations and
legal moves? Regarding the latter he is at it again with a lawsuit against law
firm Wigdor and the mistress Guzel Ganieva who had sued him earlier (that was
tossed).
As an intuitive coach, from the get-go I would have hammered him with the fundamental: It isn’t what happens, it’s how you handle it. Black seems to have mishandled so much.
If this were still the era of psychobabble, we would be putting him on the couch. For instance, was his father's suicide a rosebud moment? But I warn my clients about interpreting profesional dynamics in terms of supposed psychological constructs.
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