Prominent attorney, founding partner of Boies Schiller Flexner. Represented Harvey Weinstein using Black Cube operatives against accusers. NYT reported Boies and Pottinger explored monetizing Epstein's sex tapes (EFTA00029251). EXPLOSIVE: Epstein's own emails reveal Boies attempted to blackmail Les Wexner — EFTA00704048: 'boies was going to blackmail wexner'; EFTA00823394: 'his whole case was about les wexner. and boiese trying to blackmail him...leon black was horrified'; EFTA00964730: Boies motivated by 'MONEY!!!! he lost the fee for hank greenburg'. 1,004 documents.
Key Findings
- EFTA00704048 (Dec 2015): Epstein to NYT reporter Landon Thomas Jr. — 'boies was going to blackmail wexner' — Epstein himself accused Boies of blackmail
- EFTA00823394 (Jul 2016): Epstein email to attorney Martin Weinberg — 'his whole case was about les wexner. and boiese trying to blackmail him...leon black was horrified'
- EFTA00964730 (Nov 2017): Epstein to NYT reporter Landon Thomas Jr. on Boies motivation — 'MONEY!!!! he lost the fee for hank greenburg' — financial motive for blackmail scheme
- EFTA00696331 (Nov 2017): Additional Epstein email to Landon Thomas Jr. about Boies and Wexner blackmail — same thread as EFTA00964730
- EFTA00029251: NYT article circulated at SDNY - Boies and Pottinger explored monetizing Epstein sex tapes via 'shadowy hacker'
- EFTA00032751: 'Hot list' of men on sex tapes — Boies involved in monetization scheme
- Represented Harvey Weinstein using Black Cube operatives to discredit accusers
- Ethical conflicts representing both Epstein-related victims and exploring sex tape monetization
- EFTA00976977 (Nov 2013): Joel Klein suggests 'Mary and David Boies?' as dinner companions for Epstein's Woody Allen 78th birthday party — Boies part of Epstein's intimate social circle while simultaneously representing his victims.
- EFTA01652518 (Apr 2025): Survivor Maria Farmer sends anguished email to Boies/BSF attorneys: 'David BOIES lying to force me forward. He said he would get WEXNER.' Accuses Boies of abandoning her during cancer chemotherapy: 'David used me to face off against DERSHOWITZ & EPSTEIN, only to leave me to be eaten alive by Dershowitz, while in ICU during ABVD CHEMO for Lymphoma!' States: 'Sigrid, David & BEDWARDS are much more harmful to victims than Jeffrey Epstein ever dreamed IN MY LIVED EXPERIENCE!'