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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Rupert Neate Wealth correspondent

Ex-Barclays boss saw Jeffrey Epstein abuse young women, US lawsuit claims

Former Barclays CEO Jes Staley pictured in 2018.
Former Barclays CEO Jes Staley pictured in 2018. Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA

Jes Staley, the former boss of Barclays, has been accused in documents lodged at a US court of “personally observ[ing] the sexual abuse of young women” by Jeffrey Epstein.

Staley, 66, who resigned as chief executive of Barclays in November 2021 after a preliminary investigation by the UK regulators into his relationship with Epstein, is named in a lawsuit filed by one of Epstein’s victims.

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