A vicious, high-stakes divorce is unfolding in three states between private equity honcho and Jeffrey Epstein acquaintance Jeffrey Leeds, and his much younger wife Elizabeth, with bitter accusations flying about paramours, sex toys and misspent millions.
At stake is $100 million in real estate alone — a $22 million, 14-room pad at famed 740 Park Ave. on the Upper East Side; a $23.5 million, 11-bed, 12.5-bath spread in Southampton; and a $35.6 million manse in Palm Beach, records show.
Elizabeth Leeds, 43, is accused by her 69-year-old husband of having a long affair with, and being impregnated by, Miami businessman Alberto Alejandro Tawil, 66.
“You sneaked out the day I left to f–k that idiot loser,” the husband wrote to Elizabeth in a scathing February 2025 email exchange included in their ongoing Palm Beach County divorce filings.
He referred to Leeds’ unnamed lover as a “loser grifter real estate mogul” in another blistering missive.
He claimed his wife used marital money to plunge more than $275,000 into one of Tawil’s businesses in Mozambique; to pay for her beau’s household staff of 21; and to buy “erotic gifts,” court filings showed.
“Just leave us alone and come visit every now and then. You’re a part time-mother anyway,” he once texted her, referencing their two kids.
“Stop leaving your ‘watercolors’ of c–ksucking around where the kids can see them and your crotchless underwear on the floor for everyone to see and your anal lubricant around,” he added bitterly.
Leeds — whose name appears in the Justice Department’s Epstein document dump dozens of times — was quoted in a now infamous 2002 New York Magazine profile of Epstein titled “Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery.”
“You may read about Jeffrey in the social columns, but there is much more to him than that,” Leeds gushed about the pedophile. “He’s a talented money manager and an extremely hardworking person with broad interests.”
In one email, power publicist Peggy Siegal lists Leeds as a “smart investor and knows politics,” while in another missive, Next Model Management founder Faith Kates wrote to Epstein about Leeds.
“Did u know your friend jeffrey leeds got married friday?” she wrote on March 18, 2012, three days after his wedding to Elizabeth. “Finally.”
Epstein’s ex-girlfriend, physician and former model Eva Dubin, also wrote to the financier about Leeds.
“Jeff Leeds says hello,” she emailed in September 2012.
Leeds has not been accused of any misconduct in connection to Epstein.
“Mr. Leeds had no professional or personal relationship with Epstein,” his lawyer, Peter Trombadore, said in a statement. “No one has suggested otherwise. Any such claims would be utterly false and defamatory.”
The two “may have met in passing, though Mr. Leeds has no recollection of any such meeting,” the attorney added, insisting Leeds “never went to Mr. Epstein’s office or any of his homes, was never on his plane or his island.”
In her own Palm Beach County filings, Elizabeth claimed her estranged husband has “exerted financial warfare” upon her and is harassing her friends — including Tawil and New York jeweler Anne Baker — with unnecessary and intimidating subpoenas.
The husband claimed the jeweler sold Elizabeth a $125,500 diamond and platinum chain; a $98,000 Georgian diamond collet-set necklace, and a $68,000 emerald-cut diamond bracelet — and may have information about the wife’s affair.
Jeffrey has “stalked” his spouse, and screamed at and followed her during one of their kids’ school events, Elizabeth alleged.
“Throughout these proceedings the husband has sent text messages . . . of naked photographs he has taken of her to harass and embarrass her,” she claimed in court papers.
He even stole and photographed her journal, she said.
“I had a loving and long-term relationship . . . a loving relationship with someone I have known for a long time and I had a miscarriage,” she said of her relationship with Tawil during a July deposition.
The Leeds are locked in legal combat in Florida, Wyoming and Manhattan as their “acrimonious” split has dragged on for months.
They married in a March 2012 Manhattan ceremony presided over by former Mayor Rudy Giuliani. At the time, Jeffrey gave his new bride $1 million to use as she wished. His Leeds Equity Partners has more than $4 billion in assets under management.
The husband’s current net worth is unclear, but a prenup indicated he had $90 million in assets before they married.
Jeffrey filed to divorce Elizabeth in Palm Beach, Fla. in January 2025. Days later, Elizabeth — who had taken their two young kids and moved to Wyoming four months earlier — filed her own case against him in the Equality State.
The couple bought their five-bedroom in the Park Avenue pre-war building considered one of the Big Apple’s most elite addresses in 2016 for $22.5 million and have put it back on the market. The Hamptons home, which sits on 4.6 acres, was once owned by the Carnegie family.
Their Palm Beach property, an 11,567-square-foot manse on a 1.3-acre lot a block from the ocean, is currently being rented, according to court records.
“Elizabeth requests that the press and the public let this matter proceed privately, especially for the sake of the parties’ two young children. Other than that, she will not be making any comments at this time,” said Richard Segal, a lawyer for the wife.
This is a private matter,” Leeds’ lawyer Trombadore said. “Mr. Leeds asks that his privacy and that of his family during this challenging time be respected as he works to resolve issues amicably and focuses on the best interests of the children. We are not going to address specific allegations outside of Court except to state that they are completely without merit and denied.”
A lawyer for Tawil didn’t respond to a request for comment.
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