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muriel_volestrangler

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Sat Feb 7, 2026, 12:51 PM 13 hrs ago

France investigates ex-minister Jack Lang over Epstein links [View all]

Source: BBC

Financial crime prosecutors in France say they have opened a preliminary inquiry into former Culture Minister Jack Lang over his links to Jeffrey Epstein.

Lang, a major figure in French socialist governments between the 1980s and 2000s, is being investigated for suspected "laundering of tax fraud proceeds".
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Lang's daughter Caroline, 64, is also being investigated in the case. Earlier this week she stepped down as head of a French film producers' union.

Former French minister Lang is named almost 700 times in the Epstein files and has so far resisted pressure to step down as president of the Arab World Institute.

Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crkrk567d7zo



Introduced to Epstein by ... Woody Allen.
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