Last week, on March 25, I sat down again with Leon Black in his spacious Park Avenue office, at the corner of 57th Street. He was stewing big-time. It was a few days after Ron Wyden, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, had publicly released his latest scathing letter about Black—the details of which found their way onto the front page of The New York Times that very same day. Leon reiterated to me—just as he had during our memorable conversations a couple years ago, which formed the basis of the first two parts in this series—that he didn’t know Jeffrey Epstein was a criminal pedophile. Yes, he was “a bit offbeat and counterculture and eccentric,” Leon once told me. And yes, he had pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting a minor, but “he was with a 17-year-old prostitute, got prosecuted for it, and got put away for a year,” he said. “I didn’t think this was the end of the world, frankly.”