Almost six weeks after the release of emails showing that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein connected Steve Tisch with several women, the New York Giants co-owner and chairman is planning to transfer his stake in the team to his children.<\/p>\n
A memo Wednesday notified NFL executives that Tisch and his siblings, Jonathan Tisch and Laurie Tisch, have requested approval to transfer their remaining 23.1 percent share of the Giants into trusts for their children.<\/p>\n
\u201cFollowing the transactions, the Sellers will no longer own any interest in the Club,\u201d the memo said.<\/p>\n
However, the ownership transfer may not signal a substantive change in the Giants\u2019 operations. A team spokesperson told The Athletic that Steve Tisch\u2019s involvement with the team \u2014 even if the league\u2019s finance committee approves the transfer \u2014 is \u201cstatus quo.\u201d Asked if that meant Tisch would remain involved with the team, the spokesperson responded: \u201cCorrect.\u201d<\/p>\n
The memo said that additional Tisch family ownership stakes \u2014 Preston Robert Tisch, Steve\u2019s father, purchased 50 percent of the team in 1991 \u2014 had been transferred to the children\u2019s trusts in 2023 and 2024. The Mara family is the team\u2019s other majority shareholder. The Koch family bought a 10 percent stake in the team last year.<\/p>\n
Tisch didn\u2019t immediately respond to calls requesting comment. The NFL declined to comment.<\/p>\n
The Athletic first reported<\/a> the emails between Epstein and Tisch that were among more than three million documents the Justice Department released in January. Their exchanges \u2014 most from 2013, five years after Epstein was convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution \u2014 revealed a chummy, transactional dynamic<\/a> where Epstein introduced Tisch to at least four women.<\/p>\n After the emails became public, Tisch issued a statement characterizing his relationship with Epstein as a \u201cbrief association\u201d consisting of discussions about \u201cadult women,\u201d as well as movies, philanthropy and investments. He said he never traveled to Epstein\u2019s infamous island.<\/p>\n \u201cAs we all know now, he was a terrible person and someone I deeply regret associating with,\u201d Tisch\u2019s statement said.<\/p>\n The emails show a closer connection. Epstein and Tisch had breakfast in April 2013 after a mutual acquaintance forged an introduction. At the time of the breakfast, Epstein had already been sued several times by sex abuse victims, served 13 months of work-release custody and registered as a Level 3 sex offender, the highest risk to reoffend.<\/p>\n Epstein soon began connecting Tisch with women, some of whom they discussed in crude terms: \u201ca 10 ass,\u201d \u201cpro or civilian\u201d and \u201cworking girl.\u201d<\/p>\n After Tisch connected with one of the women, Epstein applauded his performance: \u201creport just in, you did very well, she wants to go to the play, she is a little freaked by the age difference but go slow \u2026 i will try to convince her not to return to Ukraine. having her crying worked.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI am happy to have you as a new but obviously shared interest friend,\u201d Epstein wrote Tisch.<\/p>\n NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said during a pre-Super Bowl news conference last month that the league would \u201clook at all the facts\u201d regarding Tisch\u2019s emails with Epstein. \u201cWe\u2019ll continue to follow any of the facts that come up, and we\u2019ll determine whether we open an investigation or not based on those facts,\u201d Goodell said.<\/p>\n The league hasn\u2019t commented on the situation since, but the Epstein-Tisch correspondence has prompted questions at the federal level.<\/p>\n When asked during a House Judiciary Committee hearing last month if the emails warranted further investigation into Tisch\u2019s connection to Epstein, Attorney General Pam Bondi responded: \u201cWe will look into anything.\u201d<\/p>\n Dianna Russini and Alex Andrejev contributed reporting to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost six weeks after the release of emails showing that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein connected Steve Tisch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,56,6,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-806923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-new-york-giants","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports-business"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116212245103019171","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}