Forbes’ annual World Billionaires is full of Jeffrey Epstein’s cronies — here’s who’s in the files

Forbes released its World’s 40 Billionaires List, and a who’s who of Jeffrey Epstein’s files.

Since the Department of Justice began releasing records related to the deceased child abuser on Dec. 19, the rich and famous with ties to Epstein have been resigning and publicly apologizing en masse.

Many of the names on the new Forbes list of 3,428 people also appear in the Epstein files, some more than others.

Bill Gates – ranked 19th richest person in the world with $108 billion – is foremost among them.

In emails released by the feds, Epstein said the Microsoft co-founder, who regularly visits his hometown on the Upper East Side, requested the drug to treat a sexually transmitted disease he caught “from having sex with Russian girls.”

Gates, 70, later admitted that he traveled on Epstein’s private jet and had two affairs with Russian women — and called his friendship with the disgraced financier “a big mistake.”

He said he did not do or see anything against the law.

Steve Tisch, chairman of the New York Giants and ranked 1,193rd richest in the world with a net worth of $2.2 billion, has exchanged several eyebrow-raising emails with a sex offender.

They showed Epstein tried to set up a 77-year-old businessman with women, including a “Tahitian” girl named “Emily” in 2013, years after Epstein’s first conviction in Florida.

“Working girl?” Tisch responded with a single error. Others refer to “girls” from Ukraine and Russia.

Tisch later said they were talking about older women, and that she regrets getting involved with Epstein.

Last week, he announced that he would pass his share of NFL ownership to his children.

Virgin founder Richard Branson – 1,504th on the Forbes list with a net worth of $2.8 billion – lives on a private island in the British Virgin Islands a short 20-minute helicopter ride from Epstein’s “pedo island”, and sent e-mails about the Russian girls Epstein brought him.

The couple stayed twice at the English businessman’s Necker Island, 75, in 2013, with Epstein bringing the girls each time.

Branson was so excited, he emailed Epstein after the second visit saying, “Anytime you’re in the area he’d love to see you! As long as you bring your women!”

Here are some of the billionaires on the Forbes list who are allegedly close to Epstein:

• Victoria’s Secret founder Les Wexner, 88, who is 402nd on the list with a net worth of $8.8 billion, was one of Epstein’s closest friends and admitted that he went to her island, which he described as “crummy.” Wexner gave Epstein power of attorney over his finances and was considered a potential conspirator by the feds. He called Epstein a fraud who stole his money.
• Private equity founder Leon Black, 74, the world’s 251st-richest person with $12.1 billion, was a regular visitor to the Manhattan home of Epstein, who managed his money. She has been accused of sexual harassment at Epstein’s mansion, and allegations of conspiring to “silence and destroy” the victims, allegations she denies. He resigned from his company Apollo in 2021.
• Hedge funder Glenn Dubin, 68, 1,440th on the list with $2.9 billion, flew on Epstein’s private jet, the “Lolita Express,” 21 times, according to flight records. He and his wife, Eva Dubin, Epstein’s ex-girlfriend, were close friends with the rapist, took him into their home and reassured him in 2009 to his probation officer, saying they were “100% comfortable” with Epstein around their children. Epstein even wanted to marry the Dubins’ 19-year-old daughter, Celina, and make her his young bride. A family spokesman dismissed the statement as “illegal remarks” that the Dubins were unaware of.
• LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, 58, who is worth $2.7 billion, visited Epstein’s island in 2014 and joked about sending “girly” ice cream as a gift afterward.
• Hyatt Hotels heir Tom Pritzker, 75, the world’s 677th richest person with $6.2 billion, flew the Lolita Express and helped organize a trip to Southeast Asia for Epstein’s girlfriend, Karyna Shuliak, in 2018 “to find Jeffrey a new girlfriend.” He said to him, “May strength be with you.” He stepped down as chairman of Hyatt and said he “deeply regrets” his relationship with the perv.
• Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, 64, the former CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and the 542nd richest person with a family fortune of $7.2 billion, lived next door to Epstein on East 71st Street but said he visited him only once in 2005, and left the massage parlor and never saw Epstein again. It was later revealed that Lutnick visited pedo-island in 2012.
• Google founder Sergey Brin, 52, the world’s third-richest man at $237 billion, visited Epstein’s island in 2007 and exchanged emails over dinners at Epstein’s townhouse.