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Leon David Black (born July 31, 1951) is an American billionaire businessman, investor, and art collector best known as the co-founder of Apollo Global Management, one of the world's largest alternative investment firms, which he helped establish in 1990. He served as CEO of Apollo until 2021, when he stepped down amid controversy over his financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein.