Financier known as the ‘Junk Bond King’ who was convicted of securities fraud in 1990 and pardoned by President Trump in 2020. Listed on Epstein's ‘Seminar-MONEY’ planning document alongside other billionaires including Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, and Peter Thiel, with a question mark next to his name suggesting uncertainty about the invitation. Epstein wrote in emails that he had been ‘invited to the Milken Conference with the NY money people,’ referencing the Milken Institute Global Conference.
A June 2018 email between Epstein's accountant Richard Kahn and Epstein discussed a CNBC article about Trump advisors pushing for a Milken pardon. Both worked in the Drexel Burnham Lambert orbit in the 1980s, where Milken mentored Leon Black, who later became Epstein's largest known financial client. Named on the DOJ's February 2026 list of 305 politically exposed persons.