The Powers That Be: Daily
The Powers That Be: Daily
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Leon Black’s Slow Burn
25 minutes Posted Sep 15, 2026 at 1:01 pm.
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Bill Cohan joins Peter to discuss his new book, Money to Burn, tracing Apollo’s founding after Drexel’s 1990 collapse, its meteoric rise built on distressed debt investments, and leadership under co-founder Leon Black. The pair also dig into Black’s close ties with Jeffrey Epstein—the $158 million in fees and the affair scandal that ended his CEO reign—and what his fall means for everyone who kept Epstein close.