PARIS — Retired French politician Jack Lang has broken his silence over a sizeable donation from disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, telling POLITICO it was meant to fund a movie.
In 2018, a year before his arrest on sex trafficking charges and his suicide in prison, Epstein made a donation of more than $57,000 to a French nonprofit through his private charity. The president, the treasurer and the secretary of the nonprofit were all long-term staffers or friends of Lang, France’s culture minister in the early 1980s and then again from 1988 to 1993.
