Jeffrey Epstein visited British Columbia regularly, was encouraged to buy real estate and even applied for temporary residency the year before his death in a New York prison cell.

Despite his criminal conviction for buying sex with a minor, Epstein traveled freely to Vancouver, booked massages, convened meetings and cultivated relationships in B.C.

He and Ghislaine Maxwell are accused by a woman from Surrey of aggressively trying to groom her as a young teenager on a domestic flight. The victim says the airline refused to act.

Meanwhile, Epstein’s global network of billionaire friends invested in shipping facilities on the B.C. coast, focusing on container terminals and LNG infrastructure.

As powerful figures across the world face consequences for their involvement with the pedophile rapist and sex trafficker, key questions remain about Epstein’s activities in British Columbia:

Why was he allowed across the Canadian border after registering as a sex offender? How much did his friends in B.C. know about his ongoing crimes?

And now, given U.S. aggression toward Canada, why is our government considering huge public subsidies for Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein’s billionaire friends?

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Leon Black, the “sicko collector”

New York billionaire Leon Black paid Epstein at least $170 million over the years, supposedly for financial advice. That makes Black a top funder of Epstein’s human trafficking operation.

In return Epstein showed “maniacal devotion” (his words) to Black, hiding his affairs from his wife, brokering payouts to women and helping him avoid hundreds of millions in taxes.

“I am an obsessive-compulsive, sicko collector,” Black said about his approach to acquiring art. “Late at night, my wife goes to bed at 11, and I wander.”

Black’s art purchases, the contents of his 69 bank accounts and a yacht trip to Epstein’s ‘pedophile island’ are all laid bare in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Epstein files.

In 2018, Leon Black’s private equity firm Apollo Global Management also invested in a liquified natural gas project in British Columbia being developed by Texas-based Western LNG.

That terminal is now known as Ksi Lisims LNG, which despite having a Nisga’a name, is entirely American-owned. The project has been enthusiastically embraced by Canadian politicians.

“We welcome you,” B.C. Premier David Eby said when asked about Ksi Lisims’ Wall Street backers. “Those investors, regardless of their political affiliation, could invest anywhere.”

Marc Rowan, the Board of Peace exec

Marc Rowan took over as Chairman and CEO of Apollo in 2021, after his co-founder and fellow Manhattan billionaire Leon Black resigned in disgrace over his ties to Epstein.

A 2015 e-mail from Black’s executive assistant reads “Leon’s partner, Marc Rowan, wants to meet with Jeffrey — he will move things around and come to Jeffrey. Marc said if Jeffrey wants early breakfast that works for him — he will bring coffee!!!”

Like Black, Rowan visited Epstein’s mansion and carried on a relationship for years after Epstein’s prison sentence in Florida for soliciting prostitution from an underage girl. 

And like Black, Rowan appears to have sought advice on his personal finances, forwarding documents to Epstein from RWN Management, his family investment office.

Epstein even considered buying a Gulfstream jet from Marc Rowan in 2016. But before it could become his next Lolita Express, it was snapped up by another buyer.

In January 2026, Rowan was appointed to oversee the Board of Peace by Chairman-for-life Donald Trump. His first project is paving over the bloody rubble of Gaza to build a new seaside resort.

Steve Schwarzman, King of Wall Street

“hes terrific,” Epstein wrote about Stephen A. Schwarzman, CEO of Blackstone and fellow member of the Core Club, the exclusive Manhattan hangout with a $50,000 signup fee.

In 2013, publicist Peggy Siegal e-mailed Epstein an invitation from Schwarzman, Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein and others to an evening celebrating Jared Kushner’s New York Observer.

It’s not known whether Epstein honoured the invite, or the nature of his relationship with Steve Schwarzman. Did the two ever talk about LNG, which Epstein was interested in years earlier?

Either way, Blackstone soon moved into the gas game, buying $1.2 billion in fracking assets in Louisiana. The nearby Sabine Pass LNG project was already under construction. That terminal would soon usher in a new era of U.S. dominance in LNG exports.

Two years later, Siegal invited Epstein to a cocktail party at Steve and his wife Christine Schwarzman’s home, with Google exec Eric Schmidt and cast members of The Imitation Game.

Schwarzman has doubled down on gas infrastructure in recent years, including in B.C. Blackstone is now the lead investor in Ksi Lisims LNG and its sister project, the PRGT pipeline.

The Sultan and the goat

In 2016, Emirati billionaire Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem e-mailed his friend Jeffrey Epstein about an upcoming trip to British Columbia. The typos are his.

“I will be meeting the chiefs of First Nation (Canadian Indi=n tribe) where they will cook for me and i need to cook for them and once =e eat together we become friends and will facilitate my company to u=e their lands for my port operations in prince Rupert Canada”

At the time, Sulayem was Chairman and CEO of DP World, the Dubai-based international shipping giant that owns container terminals in Prince Rupert, Nanaimo, Vancouver and Surrey, B.C.

The bespectacled sultan was ousted last week from DP World over his longstanding entanglement with Epstein, who told Sulayem “I loved the torture video” in a 2009 e-mail.

On his way to Prince Rupert with his Irish girlfriend, His Excellency told Epstein he was also planning to bring his cook, to prepare “the 20 hours goat” for local chiefs.

Always erudite, Epstein replied to this behind-the-scenes description of consultation with Indigenous leaders, typing “I read it as you were coming with “my cock. “

Epstein’s B.C. playground

There he was at the Redcedar massage suite at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Vancouver, getting a Shiatsu from local masseuse Kendall Dixon.

A few blocks away, at Canada Place, his buddy Bill Gates posed for pictures at the TED Conference, alongside academics, artists and astronaut Chris Hadfield.

In 2018 another Epstein friend, celebrity physicist Lawrence Krauss, e-mailed him a link to an MLS property listing on Vancouver Island, “in case we decide to =eave US..:)” 

At the time, Krauss was fighting accusations of sexual misconduct at Arizona State University, with Epstein advising him. Krauss retired in 2019 and now lives near Victoria, B.C.

What does it say that as the walls were closing in, Epstein thought about moving to Canada?

His pen pal Elon Musk already has dual citizenship. That fact resurfaced last summer, when the world’s richest man landed his private jet in Bella Bella, heading to a sacred hot spring.

For years, Epstein and his associates have used B.C. as a playground. They hop across the border to unwind, set up deals, and think about escape plans. To them, it’s just one more corner of the empire.

American Dominance

The private equity billionaires are the latest wave: the self-described “raiders of Wall Street,” septuagenarian bad boys with Picassos and celebrities on their yachts. They want our gas.

When they say “Unleashing American Energy,” they mean drilling holes anywhere in the Americas, the hemisphere they lay claim to. They don’t care about lines on a map.

And when they say “American Energy Dominance,” they mean forcing so much cheap LNG onto the market that people in Europe and Asia give up on renewable energy and buy American gas.

It’s a dumb plan, but like their pal Epstein, these guys are not as smart as they think they are.

With LNG demand flatlining in Asia, and American gas exports about to double, there’s no reason to build more terminals in B.C. If the PRGT pipeline stalls now, Leon Black, Marc Rowan and Steve Schwarzman will lose hundreds of millions of dollars.

Lucky for them, the province of B.C. and the Canadian government are eager to give out billions in electricity discounts, tax breaks, subsidies and public loans to “de-risk” any LNG project, regardless of who owns it or plans to profit from it.

Jeffrey Epstein’s powerful friends are used to going anywhere in the Western world and taking whatever they want, from whoever they want. What if this time, we say no?

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