Apollo’s Rowan Says Epstein ‘Wasting My Time’ From the Grave

Apollo Global Management Inc. Chief Executive Officer Marc Rowan said he only dealt with Jeffrey Epstein in his capacity as tax adviser for the firm’s co-founder Leon Black, and reiterated that Apollo did no business with the sex offender.

“I didn’t like him for my own reasons, he wasted my time,” Rowan said in an interview with Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait at Bloomberg Invest in New York on Tuesday. “Even from the grave, he’s wasting my time.”

Apollo has sought to reassure clients that its top executives didn’t have a relationship with the disgraced financier after some employees, ...