Ahmed bin Sulayem

Key Findings

• EFTA02208661: Lesley Groff emails offering to send '23 and Me DNA kit' - Sultan replies 'Last name bin sultan'
• EFTA01785491: Sultan emails Jeffrey Epstein asking 'Can you tell where I can buy the death watch'
• EFTA01750864: Sultan shares 'Snow in the desert' photo with Jeffrey Epstein
• Named by Rep. Ro Khanna (Feb 2026) as one of six men whose names were redacted from Jeffrey Epstein files (external source, not in EFTA corpus)
• Replaced as CEO/Chairman of DP World (Feb 13, 2026) after EFTA releases showed years of intimate correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein (external source, not in EFTA corpus)
• EFTA02050789 (Jun 2016): Planned a stop in the Virgin Islands, 'I am planning to arrive st Thomas at 1:30 p.m. Thursday June 9 and depart Friday'. On June 9 Jeffrey Epstein wrote 'fyi, i am on island , if you over fly and want to say hi' and he replied 'I am in the air just left St. John in my route to London I will visit you oct/ nov depending on your schedule' (EFTA00631662); no document read shows a visit to the island on that trip.
• EFTA01810829 (Oct 2010): Jeffrey Epstein invited to stay: 'you can stay as long as you like - there is plenty of room'
• EFTA01819321 (Oct 2009): During Dubai World $60B crisis, Jeffrey Epstein advised against Istithmar CEO doing press: 'david jackson should not do press, he is not the face you want to present'
• EFTA01920975 (Jun 2014): Jeffrey Epstein helping Sulayem find trans cranial magnetic stimulation at Harvard, personal health assistance
• EFTA00448789: On guest list alongside Pritzker, Leon Black, Ambani, Summers, Woody Allen, Lauder, Ruemmler
• EFTA02811664 (Apr 2023): Jes Staley sworn interrogatory, lists Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem as a client/potential client Jeffrey Epstein referred to JPMorgan (USVI v. JPMorgan)
• EFTA02809437 (Jul 2023): "Epstein referred the Sultan of Dubai, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem as a client to JPMorgan" (Ex. 46 at 87:7-8)
• EFTA02808649: Jeffrey Epstein appears to have "a close relationship with Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem who is a senior UAE official involved in [operations]"
• EFTA01043419 (Jun 2017): Email chain, Jeffrey Epstein sends his "assistant" to Rixos Premium Belek, Antalya for "training programme." Sultan directly instructs Fettah Tamince (Rixos chairman): "Please train her on all the treatments." Sebla Soydan arranges accommodation, requests passport copy.
• EFTA00454387 (Jun 2017): Lesley Groff forwards Rixos "Training Program in Antalya" email, asks Jeffrey Epstein about dates for sending two women. 10-day programme at Land of Legends Spa.
• EFTA00454529 (Jun 2017): Groff forwards training program directly to Fettah Tamince with Basic_Therapist_Training_Program.docx attachment.
• EFTA00027019: Deutsche Bank wire records, $6,200 payment to Sultan Bin Sulayem (Jul 2017, DB-SDNY-0005749).