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Recently unveiled documents from the United States Department of Justice regarding Jeffrey Epstein detail severe allegations against private equity billionaire and Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) trustee Leon Black. The files, made public last week, include a purported diary with first-person narratives of alleged abuse, along with emails containing accusations against Black. These documents align with a 2023 lawsuit accusing Black of raping a 16-year-old girl with autism and a rare form of Down Syndrome at Epstein’s Manhattan property in 2002. The case remains active, although the woman, referred to as Jane Doe, has dismissed her attorney.
Within the diary, a page features Sylvia Plath’s 1962 poem “Stopped Dead” with
