Giacomo Tognini
Deputy editor, wealth @Forbes.com covering billionaires and the world’s richest people. Forbes Union.
@columbiajournalism.bsky.social and UC Berkeley alum. Tips: gtognini@forbes.com / giacomo.na.tognini@proton.me
- 1/ @mhunterhart.bsky.social and I found several contracts and payment records that uncovered two new billionaire clients of Jeffrey Epstein: real estate mogul Mortimer Zuckerman and Ariane de Rothschild, a Rothschild heir by marriage. www.forbes.com/sites/giacom...
- Together, they appear to have paid Epstein $45 million—an unusually high sum for the work he said he was performing, according to two estate planning experts who spoke with @forbes.com anonymously given the sensitivity of the topic.
- It also helps fill in some of the gaps on the client fees Epstein raked in from 1999 to 2018--including about $100 million from previously unknown clients, before this latest reporting--that @johnhyatt.bsky.social and I had looked into last year.
