Leon Black’s Controversial Cambodian Art Found in Epstein Files

For more than a decade, investigators for the US and Cambodian governments have been trying to trace the whereabouts of ancient sculptures stolen from the Southeast Asian country. In many cases the works were taken during Cambodia’s civil war, by men associated with the communist Khmer Rouge. A significant clue just emerged from an unlikely source: the US Department of Justice’s files on Jeffrey Epstein.

Among the millions of documents recently made public by the Justice Department are inventories of artworks held by Leon Black, the former chief executive officer of Apollo Global Management Inc., who paid ...