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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondent

Ex-Barclays boss Jes Staley admits having sex with member of Jeffrey Epstein staff

Jes Staley.
Jes Staley. Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

The former chief executive of Barclays, Jes Staley, has admitted to having sex with a member of Jeffrey Epstein’s staff in an apartment owned by the child sex offender’s brother in New York, a court has heard.

Staley made the admission at the end of a testy day of cross-examination at the upper tribunal, but maintained that his friendship with Epstein was not personal and had always been based on business.

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