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Ex-Barclays boss Jes Staley once emailed Jeffrey Epstein: ‘I owe you much … I deeply appreciate our friendship’

Emails revealed by the US Virgin Islands show Epstein sending Staley photos of young women and discussing trips to the island where Epstein had allegedly trafficked young women

Jes Staley has maintained he was friendly with Epstein but never knew about his alleged crimes and ended the friendship before he became Barclays CEO
Jes Staley has maintained he was friendly with Epstein but never knew about his alleged crimes and ended the friendship before he became Barclays CEO Photo: Bloomberg via Getty Images

Former Barclays chief Jes Staley exchanged more than a thousand emails with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, some of which included photos of young women in seductive poses, according to court documents released this week.

The emails, revealed by the US Virgin Islands government in a lawsuit against JPMorgan, where Staley was once a top executive, shed new light on the relationship between the banker and the late financier who was charged with sex trafficking before his apparent suicide in 2019.

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