Dimon will be interviewed in a case involving women suing the U.S. Bank for facilitating Epstein’s sex trafficking business.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon will be interviewed under oath in connection with the bank’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the late sex offender and a former client, an attorney involved in the trial said.
The statement is expected to come out in early May, Brad Edwards, an attorney who represents women who claim to have been sexually assaulted by Epstein, said Tuesday. The women are suing the largest bank in the United States for facilitating the financier’s sex trafficking business.
JPMorgan declined to comment.
Epstein was a client of JPMorgan from 2000 to 2013, and for the last five years after pleading guilty to a prostitution charge in Florida.
JPMorgan is defending two lawsuits, in Manhattan federal court, seeking damages for his dealings with Epstein: a proposed class action by Epstein’s prosecutors and a suit brought by the U.S. Virgin Islands, where Epstein owned a home.
The bank is also suing Jes Staley, a former private bank executive and later CEO of Barclays PLC who had been friends with Epstein.
JPMorgan wants Staley to pay the company back for eight years of compensation and damages it could incur in the other lawsuits.
The Financial Times previously reported on Dimon’s expected statement.
Citing a person familiar with an internal JPMorgan probe, the newspaper said there was no report of Dimon being in direct communication with Epstein or involved in any discussion of retaining him as a client.
On March 9, a federal judge ordered JPMorgan to give the U.S. Virgin Islands documents on Dimon from 2015 to 2019 after Epstein was dropped as a client, dismissing the bank’s claim that the area was on a “fishing expedition.”
Deutsche Bank, where Epstein was a client from 2013 to 2018, is also being sued by the financier’s prosecutors.
Epstein died by suicide in a Manhattan jail cell in August 2019 at the age of 66, awaiting trial for sex trafficking.