The latest tranche of Epstein files released by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) last week includes detailed and gruesome descriptions of alleged abuse by private equity billionaire and Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) trustee Leon Black.

The trove of documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein includes scanned pages of an apparent diary containing first-person accounts of alleged abuse as well as emails describing accusations against Black.

Certain details expressed in the spiral-bound notebook, including the year, location, and perpetrators of the alleged abuse, correspond to a 2023 lawsuit alleging that the billionaire raped a 16-year-old girl who has autism and a rare form of Down Syndrome in Epstein’s Manhattan residence in 2002. According to court filings, at the time, the girl’s developmental age was estimated to be 12 years old. The lawsuit is ongoing, and the woman, known as Jane Doe, recently fired her attorney.

On a page of the apparent journal, the diary’s author pasted a copy of Sylvia Plath’s 1962 poem “Stopped Dead” and added “Leon Black” in handwriting next to the title. The author underlined several lines from the poem: “birth, cry, fatso millionaire, it's violent, goddamn baby screaming, there's always a bloody baby, your seven chins, still as a ham.” Some of the entries appear to be written in a form of code. The letters are arranged so that reading downward, diagonally upward toward the right, down, and repeating the pattern produces a coherent message.



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