Ex-Barclays boss denies having sex with a woman dressed as Snow White

Staley Rejects Snow White Allegation in Epstein Congressional Hearings

Wanderstayfinder.com – The sprawling congressional inquiry into Jeffrey Epstein’s life and death has produced yet another layer of uncomfortable detail, this time centering on a former global banking titan and a string of emails referencing Disney princesses. Jes Staley, who once helmed one of Britain’s largest banks, told US lawmakers under oath that he never had sex with a woman wearing a Snow White costume — a claim he maintained even as the transcript revealed a sequence of messages that left at least one lawmaker visibly unconvinced.

The Emails at the Heart of the Questioning

The exchange in question took place over two days in July 2010. On 9 July, Staley wrote to Epstein:

“That was fun. Say hi to Snow White.”

Epstein, ever the provocateur, replied:

“What character would you like next?”

Staley answered:

“Beauty and the Beast.”

Epstein’s response, preserved verbatim in the released transcript, read:

“Well one side is availble [sic].”

The following day, 10 July 2010, an unnamed individual sent Epstein a separate message stating:

“the snow white was f..ed twice as soon as she put her costume))”

That second email became the fulcrum of the congressional questioning, because it implied a sexual encounter had taken place while the woman was still in costume — and because Staley’s earlier “Say hi to Snow White” line appeared to reference the same event.

What Staley Told Lawmakers

During the closed-door interview conducted last month as part of Congress’s ongoing investigation into Epstein — who died in a Manhattan prison cell in August 2019 while awaiting trial on child sex-trafficking charges — a representative whose name has been redacted from the transcript put the question directly:

“Did you ever have sex with a young woman in a Snow White costume?”

Staley’s answer was categorical:

“No, I did not.”

Pressed on the second email, the one describing the woman being “f..ed twice,” Staley offered:

“I have no idea who else she was with. I – it has nothing to do with me, though.”

When the representative probed further, asking why the woman would have emailed Epstein about the costume if no sexual encounter involving Staley had occurred, the former banker conceded a narrow possibility:

“I may have seen her in apartment [sic] and prompted that email. But I was not with a person dressed as Snow White outside of potentially crossing at his apartment.”

The representative then framed the logical difficulty plainly:

“So you may have seen her in his apartment, later emailed Mr. Epstein and said, ‘That was fun,’ but it was not because you had sex with her?”

Staley confirmed:

“That’s correct.”

Asked whether the timing constituted “a pretty incredible coincidence” — emailing Epstein on the ninth of July about Snow White, only for an unnamed woman to report back to Epstein the very next day about an event supposedly unrelated to Staley — the former banker replied with a shrug rendered in words:

“Sure. Why not?”

The representative’s response was brief:

“That’s pretty hard to believe.”

Staley was also asked whether he and Epstein had used Disney princess names as coded references for selecting women for sexual encounters. He answered simply:

“No.”

A Friendship That Followed Staley for Two Decades

The congressional scrutiny lands against a backdrop that has already cost Staley his career. He first met Epstein in 2000, after assuming leadership of JPMorgan Chase’s private bank division, where Epstein was a client. The two maintained a close personal relationship for roughly fifteen years before Staley departed the firm. He spent more than three decades at JPMorgan Chase in total before accepting the chief executive role at Barclays in 2015.

Barclays, one of the United Kingdom’s four largest clearing banks, employed Staley for six years before City regulators opened an investigation into his ties with Epstein. He was compelled to step down in 2021. The Financial Conduct Authority subsequently imposed a ban preventing him from holding any role in the UK financial sector, a sanction grounded in its finding that he had played down the depth of his relationship with the convicted sex offender. Last year, Staley took that ban to court in an attempt to have it overturned; the battle failed, and the proceedings themselves aired intimate details of the friendship that had long been kept out of public view.

Why the Transcript Matters

The newly released transcripts represent a significant expansion of the public record surrounding Epstein. For years, much of what was known about his associates came through civil litigation, investigative journalism, and the estate’s own disclosures. Congressional testimony, by contrast, carries the weight of sworn statements and the possibility of follow-up questions in real time. The fact that lawmakers chose to press Staley on the Snow White emails — and that the exchange was recorded and subsequently made available — signals that the investigation is not limited to Epstein’s inner circle of women and victims but extends to the financial and social networks that enabled his lifestyle.

For readers tracking the broader Epstein inquiry, the Staley episode illustrates a recurring pattern: a seemingly trivial or humorous email, years later, becomes the hinge on which a career turns. The Disney princess references, circulating in media commentary since 2021, were once treated as eccentric banter between two wealthy men. In the context of a congressional investigation into a convicted sex offender’s death and the networks around him, that banter now carries the weight of evidence — or at least of a question that a former banker answered with a shrug and a sentence that one lawmaker found difficult to accept.