Mr. Page, CEO of Google's parent company Alphabet, is worth $95 billion and owns two islands in the US Virgin Islands Credit: AP Photo /Jeff Chiu, File
Larry Page has been embroiled in a lawsuit over JP Morgan's alleged relationship with Jeffrey Epstein after the billionaire Google co-founder received a subpoena asking for any evidence of human trafficking by a disgraced sex offender.
A U.S. judge allowed the U.S. Virgin Islands to serve court papers on Mr. Page, asking him to reveal details of any personal relationship with Epstein, who died in 2019 while awaiting trial for sex crimes.
The subpoena requires access to «all documents reflecting or relating to Epstein's involvement in human trafficking and/or the acquisition of girls or women for commercial sex.»
It also asks for any documents from 2002 onwards relating to any alleged communications. Mr. Page may have had a relationship with Epstein, as well as any of his accounts or transactions he may have had with JP Morgan regarding the pedophile financier.
The US Virgin Islands is suing Wall Street bank JP Morgan, claiming he was responsible for facilitating Epstein's sexual exploitation on Little St. James, the private island he owned there, by ignoring red flags about the financier and providing him with banking services.
The lawsuit against JP Morgan is based on allegations that the bank ignored red flags regarding the sex trade on Epstein's private island. Credit: AP Photo/Gabriel López Albarran
The American Bank denies wrongdoing and calls the lawsuits «incorrect and incomplete.»
Mr. Page is not the first high-profile figure to be drawn into this affair. The island nation also sent a subpoena to Google co-founder Sergey Brin and former Disney chief Michael Ovitz.
There is no indication that they did anything wrong.
The US Virgin Islands also applied to the US court for permission to submit a subpoena to Mr. Page by alternative means after how they couldn't find it. .
This may include emailing them or posting them online. CNBC first reported court documents.
The Caribbean nation claims there was a «deep friendship» between former JP Morgan chief Jess Staley and Epstein and that the bank benefited from its relationship with the convicted sex offender. because he was in charge of the alleged trafficking network.
Mr. Staley is not a defendant in the lawsuit and has repeatedly denied involvement in Epstein's alleged crimes.
Over the years, Epstein, Wall Street financier, had relationships with billionaires and politicians. He was convicted of sex crimes in 2008 and arrested in 2019 on new sex trafficking charges.
He committed suicide in his cell while awaiting trial.
Mr. Page, worth an estimated $95 billion, is a director of Alphabet, Google's parent company, and its former executive director. As of 2022, he also owned two islands in the US Virgin Islands, according to Business Insider.
We contacted Google for comment.
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