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Hedge Fund titan, Leon Black is back in the news again. Black, the co-founder of Apollo Global Management, said in a court filing on Wednesday that accusations coming his way from a former Russian model that claim that he tried to convince her to have sex with the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein are “demonstrably false,” according to NY Post report.

For his part, Black has taken the position that former model Guzel Ganieva :”simply invented” the accusation that there was a connection to Epstein, according to the NY Post report. Ganieva filed suit against Black in June and accused him of raping her as well as of defaming her.

The court filing on Wednesday referred to Ganieva’s amended complaint, which she filed in August. In that complaint she mentioned Black by name. Black now claims that he is in the possession of 2015 tape recordings in which Ganieva says that she never met Epstein, according to the Post report.

“It speaks volumes that these outlandish allegations are only now appearing for the very first time,” the Wednesday filing said, referring to Ganieva’s amended complaint, which she filed in August. It was that complaint that for the first time mentioned Epstein.

Black said in Wednesday’s filing that he has the 2015 tape recordings of Ganieva in which she says she has never met Epstein. He had questioned her at the time about whether she knew him, according to the filing. The Post reported that the filing said, “Common sense dictates that Mr. Black would never have asked such a question were the events described in her Amended Aug. 9 Complaint true.”

Ganieva’s amended complaint added scurrilous allegations to her original claim. It said that in 2008 Black flew her to Florida to have a threesome with Epstein. The Post reported that Ganieva said she refused to have sex with the men despite Epstein’s assistant allegedly warning her that the men were “sex addicts” and that “there will be consequences” for displeasing them, as was reported in the Post.

Had the incident actually happened, Black said in Wednesday’s filing, Ganieva would have recounted meeting Epstein in the 2015 recording. The filing says Ganieva suggested in the recording only that Epstein might have once called her, according to the Post report.

The Post reported that in July, Black had initially filed a preliminary statement, answer and countersuit against Guzel Ganieva. The statement said that he had “irrefutable documentary evidence” the model was guilty of defamation when she alleged that Black raped her.

A few weeks ago, the Post reported that Ganieva apparently modified her original complaint against him by adding scandalous allegations that Black had arranged for her to fly to Florida to have a sexual encounter with the late Jeffrey Epstein, who was known to be a pedophile. Attorneys representing Black said in their court filing that they had a change of heart and would not be pursuing a counterclaim against the model.

In a filing in New York Supreme Court last week that escaped media attention for some unknown reason Black said he did not “intend to assert counterclaims at this time,” as was reported by the New York Post.

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