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Epstein-Staley Emails Chronicle Friendship Forged at JPMorgan
By Harry Wilson, Ava Benny-Morrison and Jonathan Browning
Sitting on his yacht in January 2011, Jes Staley was taking time out from running one of the world’s largest investment banks to enjoy the fruits of his success.
“Anchored in Chrismas [ sic ] Cove,” Staley wrote in an email to Jeffrey Epstein from his 91-foot yacht moored in the US Virgin Islands. “Heaven is being on Bequia. Safe travels to Paris. And, as always, thanks for the friendship.”
That month marked a high point for the relationship between the two men. In the space of a few weeks, Epstein provided Staley with use of his private Caribbean island, ...
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“Anchored in Chrismas [sic] Cove,” Staley wrote in an email to Jeffrey Epstein from his 91-foot yacht moored in the US Virgin Islands. “Heaven is being on Bequia. Safe travels to Paris.
Mr Staley and Debora, his Brazilian wife, were on their 90ft yacht Bequia on a sailing holiday and were passing by Epstein’s island. They stopped for lunch for a couple of hours before moving on, in a visit that was first reported by Bloomberg last year.
Jes Staley is stepping down as chief executive of Barclays following a regulatory investigation into the way he described his relationship with disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey...
Sitting on his yacht in January 2011, Jes Staley was taking time out from running one of the world’s largest investment banks to enjoy the fruits of his success. “Anchored in Chrismas [ sic ] Cove,” Staley wrote in an email to Jeffrey Epstein from his 91-foot yacht moored in the US Virgin Islands.
Staley’s yacht Bequia, bottom, docked in Antigua in April. Photographer: Bing Guan/Bloomberg. The friendship was a good investment for the convicted pedophile financier.
Staley visited Epstein in prison and in 2015 sailed his 90ft handmade wooden yacht, Bequia, to the sex offender’s island with his wife and daughters in tow.
Jes Staley, Barclays ’ chief executive, has been fined a total of £642,430 — representing just 14 per cent of his total compensation — by the UK’s financial regulators for trying to uncover the...
The Bequia yacht of Jes Staley, former chief executive officer of Barclays PLC, docked at Falmouth Harbour Marina, English Harbour, Saint Paul, Antigua and Barbuda, on Wednesday, April 20, 2023.... Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images
But as Jes Staley’s yacht, the 90ft two-master Bequia, slipped into the harbour at the Caribbean Island of Little St James, the banker was about to embark on a whole new fateful voyage.
Jes Staley is stepping down as chief executive of Barclays following a regulatory investigation into the way he described his relationship with disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey...