Leon Black doesn’t want to talk about Jeffrey Epstein, and if you were the Apollo Global Management co-founder, you wouldn’t either: Having a two-decade-long personal and professional relationship with a notorious convicted sex criminal whose business bona fides are questionable at best is never a good look, even if you pinky swear the pedophile never got anywhere near Apollo itself. It’s especially troubling when you claim to have been “completely unaware” of the allegations against your buddy when you maintained your ties to him long after the aforementioned conviction, however gingerly it was handled by future Trump Administration Cabinet officials.