Jes Staleys wife files for divorce after ex-Barclays exec admitted to affair with Epstein staffer: report
Jes Staley’s wife has filed for divorce just about a year after the former Barclays boss revealed he had been unfaithful during testimony over his ties to disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.Debora Staley filed a divorce petition, which is currently under seal, on March 13 in New York after decades of marriage to the longtime bank executive, according to Bloomberg News.Jes Staley, who was also an exec at JPMorgan, was fined about $1.4 million and banned from Britain’s financial industry last year for downplaying his close relationship with Epstein.Though Staley has repeatedly said he knew nothing about Epstein’s “monstrous activities,” he admitted to having consensual sex with one of Epstein’s staffers — adding that he was putting his marriage “at risk” by being “open and honest.”A lawyer for Staley did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.Staley first met his wife while working for JPMorgan in Brazil in the 1980s, where Debora’s family had founded Brazilian data center firm Aceco TI — which landed Staley in hot water when the company was sold to KKR & Co.in 2014.Staley, then CEO of Barclays, spoke out in defense of his brother-in-law after he was fired from Aceco following the acquisition — leading KKR to pull its business from Barclays, according to the Wall Street Journal.Before taking the top spot at Barclays, Staley was a top executive at JPMorgan for three decades — forming a close relationship with then-client Epstein, who died by suicide in a Manhattan prison cell in 2019 after his arrest on sex-trafficking charges.After Epstein’s victims sued JPMorgan over accusations it knowingly profited from his illicit sex-trafficking scheme, the bank sued Staley for allegedly covering up information about the serial pedophile that might have gotten him dropped as a client earlier on. The bank settled with both the victims and Staley in 2023.Amid the public fallout from his ties to Epstein, St...