Billionaire businessman and former Executive Chairman of Hyatt Hotels Corporation. Member of one of America's wealthiest families. Cousin of Illinois Governor JB Pritzker.
Chairman of the Pritzker Architecture Prize and former University of Chicago trustee. Pritzker maintained a relationship with Epstein spanning at least 2001 to 2019, documented across thousands of EFTA records. In a 2010 email, Epstein wrote to Pritzker: "The girl from Romania that you met at my house, is currently living in NYC... do you think she could work at one of your hotels?" Pritzker and Ghislaine Maxwell exchanged dozens of sexually suggestive emails in the early 2000s that discussed Pritzker's anatomy and underwear.
In one exchange, Pritzker asked Maxwell for names to invite to an upcoming event in Madrid; Maxwell responded with an innuendo-laced reply to his phrasing. Released DOJ files show Pritzker and Epstein exchanged at least 20 emails from 2010 through early 2019, the year of Epstein's federal arrest -- more than a decade after Epstein's 2008 conviction for soliciting sex from a minor as young as 14. In a 2018 email, Pritzker helped arrange travel to Asia for one of Epstein's associates.
Virginia Giuffre alleged in civil proceedings that she was directed to have sex with Pritzker in Mexico; Pritzker denied the allegation. Pritzker resigned as Hyatt executive chairman effective immediately on 16 February 2026, stating: "I exercised terrible judgment in maintaining contact with them, and there is no excuse for failing to distance myself sooner." He had served as executive chairman since 2004. He has not been charged with any crime.