A woman on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Leon Black, the former chief executive of Apollo Global Management, accusing him of defamation and alleging he raped and harassed her.
A woman on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Leon Black, the former chief executive of Apollo Global Management Inc. APO, -1.24%, accusing him of defamation and alleging he raped and harassed her.
The woman, Guzel Ganieva, with whom Black has said he had a consensual affair, claimed in the lawsuit that Black had mischaracterized their relationship and falsely accused her in media reports of trying to extort him after she initially posted her allegations in a series of tweets on March 17.Black stepped down earlier this year as CEO of Apollo and handed the reins to fellow co-founder Marc Rowan after revelations of Black’s ties to the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
In the lawsuit filed in a New York state court, Ganieva, a Russian immigrant who was in her early 20s and working as a model when she met Black at an International Women’s Day event in New York in 2008, alleges the billionaire “forced sadistic sexual acts on her without her consent,” lent her money as a way of exerting control over her and promised to help her get work beyond modeling that never materialized.From Tesla to GE, see how much CEOs made in 2020.
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