{"id":89173,"date":"2026-07-23T23:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T23:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/89173\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T23:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T23:11:12","slug":"ex-barclays-chief-jes-staley-tells-house-panel-hes-unsure-he-met-woman-in-a-snow-white-costume-through-jeffrey-epstein-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/89173\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Barclays chief Jes Staley tells House panel he’s ‘unsure’ he met woman in a Snow White costume through Jeffrey Epstein: source"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 Former Barclays CEO Jes Staley told a House panel Thursday that he was \u201cunsure\u201d he met a woman who wore a Snow White costume through convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a person familiar with his closed-door interview.<\/p>\n

The ex-Barclays chief maintained that he cut off contact with Epstein after assuming control of the bank in 2015 \u2014 but revealed in other portions of his interview that he had a sexual relationship with one of his finance pal\u2019s assistants while denying he had an encounter with a woman dressed as Snow White.<\/p>\n

But the Department of Justice released emails earlier this year showing the two discussing the character among the 1,200 communications from Staley\u2019s email account as the head of JP Morgan\u2019s Private Bank to his client Epstein\u2019s private email address between 2008 and 2012.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe they\u2019re tracking u?? That was fun. Say hi to Snow White,\u201d Staley wrote to Epstein on July 9, 2010<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Former Barclays CEO Jes Staley told a House panel Thursday that he was \u201cunsure\u201d he met a woman through convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein who wore a Snow White costume. REUTERS<\/p>\n

\u201c[W]hat character would you like next?\u201d asked Epstein in response the following day<\/p>\n

\u201cBeauty and the Beast,\u201d Staley said.<\/p>\n

Epstein replied, \u201cwell one side is available.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another unidentified person emailed Epstein on July 10, 2010<\/a>: \u201cthe snow white was f..ed twice as soon as she put her costume.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) told reporters before the interview with Staley that there were \u201cinternal discussions \u2026 that J.P. Morgan was concerned about Epstein as a client \u2014 that he was a high-risk client.\u201d Getty Images<\/p>\n

Other emails in the DOJ\u2019s Epstein Library disclosed that the money manager told an unidentified woman on June 20, 2010: \u201cI would love to take photos of you in a Snow White costume. You can get it from the costume store.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWill get it!\u201d the woman responded to him.<\/p>\n

Staley also received from Epstein an unsolicited photo of a woman on Dec. 20, 2009, which has been redacted in court papers.<\/p>\n

A source familiar with his Oversight Committee interview said he shared \u201cfurther details\u201d about a consensual sexual encounter with an Epstein assistant at the apartment of the disgraced financier\u2019s apartment in New York City. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

A source familiar with his Oversight Committee interview said he shared \u201cfurther details\u201d about a consensual sexual encounter with an Epstein assistant at the disgraced financier\u2019s apartment in New York City.<\/p>\n

Staley, who resigned from Barclays in 2021 amid a UK investigation into his financial ties to Epstein, had also previously denied knowledge of his discussions with the now-deceased pedophile about women dressed as Disney princesses during past court proceedings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The emails were first cited in a lawsuit brought by the US Virgin Islands against JP Morgan for allegedly facilitating Epstein\u2019s sex trafficking. JP Morgan paid out $75 million to settle that case with the Virgin Islands and reached a confidential settlement with Staley.<\/p>\n

Staley resigned from Barclays in November 2021 amid a UK investigation into his financial ties to Epstein.<\/p>\n

In 2023, JP Morgan also paid out $290 million to settle a lawsuit brought by Epstein victims. Staley was later asked by the bank \u201cto remove all his accounts with the bank due to his ties to Epstein,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n

Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) told reporters before the interview with Staley that there were \u201cinternal discussions \u2026 that J.P. Morgan was concerned about Epstein as a client \u2014 that he was a high-risk client \u2014 but Jes Staley was the one person who continued to defend Epstein.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that he was very close friends to Mr. Epstein,\u201d Comer also said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that he was very close friends to Mr. Epstein,\u201d Comer also said. REUTERS<\/p>\n

While the banker has denied a close relationship with Epstein in court, Staley did acknowledge to the Oversight panel that he visited his onetime client during his 13 months in a state prison in Florida starting in 2008 \u2014 after pleading guilty to soliciting sex from a minor, the source added.<\/p>\n

The source also indicated that Staley observed Epstein frequently withdraw large amounts of cash from his JP Morgan account.<\/p>\n

Comer\u2019s committee has conducted 19 interviews as part of its investigation into the Justice Department\u2019s prosecution of Epstein and release of files about its probe into the deceased sex trafficker and his convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.<\/p>\n

Ex-Apollo Global Management CEO Leon Black, one of those people previously interviewed by the House Oversight Committee, is expected to turn over non-disclosure agreements that he signed with women connected to Epstein.<\/p>\n

Staley\u2019s attorney did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Former Barclays CEO Jes Staley told a House panel Thursday that he was \u201cunsure\u201d he met…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21264],"tags":[3343,38408,6676,5552],"class_list":["post-89173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barclays","tag-barclays","tag-house-oversight-committee","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-us-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116971823555617942","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}