A woman sued Leon Black, alleging the billionaire co-founder of Apollo Global Management Inc. attacked and raped her in 2002 at the home of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
In the suit, filed Monday in New York State Supreme Court, the woman, Cheri Pierson, alleges that Mr. Black raped her in a private suite in Epstein’s Manhattan mansion. Ms. Pierson says she entered the room believing she was going to give Mr. Black a massage in a meeting prearranged by Epstein.
One of Mr. Black’s attorneys, in a statement, called the claims “categorically false.”
The suit, which goes into graphic detail about the alleged assault, also names the estate of Epstein—who died by suicide in 2019 while in jail awaiting trial on charges of sex-trafficking minors—and its executors. It comes as another suit against Mr. Black—by his former girlfriend, Guzel Ganieva, alleging rape and defamation—winds its way through the same court.