Jeffrey Epstein and the Highbridge Capital Deal (Part 1) (9/23/26)

About This Episode

Highbridge Capital Management was a major New York hedge fund founded by Glenn Dubin and Henry Swieca that had grown into one of the most successful alternative-asset managers on Wall Street by the early 2000s. In 2004, JPMorgan Chase acquired a majority stake in Highbridge, which was managing roughly $7 billion at the time, giving the bank a much larger foothold in the rapidly expanding hedge-fund business. The deal became important to the Epstein story because Jeffrey Epstein was not simply an