Amanda Kirby
The Deutsche Bank relationship assistant helped service Jeffrey Epstein’s accounts, processed transactions, handled compliance inquiries, promoted his value to the bank, and later answered FBI questions about the institution’s treatment of a convicted sex offender as a lucrative client.
Snapshot
Full name: Amanda Kirby
Occupation: Banking relationship assistant and financial services professional
Employer during the documented period: Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas and Deutsche Bank Securities
Deutsche Bank employment: June 2010 through February 2017, with securities registration continuing through March 2017
Epstein connection: Member of Paul Morris’s Deutsche Bank team servicing Epstein and Epstein controlled entities
Documented period: 2013 through 2016, followed by an FBI interview in 2021
Archive presence: More than 6,300 emails in the indexed Deutsche Bank correspondence
Legal status: Kirby has not been charged with an Epstein related crime
Evidence level: Direct emails, banking records, compliance correspondence, and an FBI interview report
EpsteinWiki profile: Amanda Kirby
Key Takeaways
Amanda Kirby worked on the Deutsche Bank team that serviced Jeffrey Epstein after JPMorgan ended its relationship with him.
Kirby handled wires, currency requests, margin calls, account documents, client meetings, compliance inquiries, and Know Your Customer updates involving Epstein and his entities.
A February 2014 email shows Kirby urging the bank to complete a $250,000 aircraft related payment because Epstein was wealthy, held approximately $230 million at Deutsche Bank, and introduced the team to other extremely wealthy prospects.
Kirby understood that Epstein’s criminal history and continuing press coverage would generate compliance alerts. In February 2015, she warned that a Butterfly Trust update would be sent for High Risk approval.
Records show Kirby helping arrange documents that gave Epstein full power of attorney over accounts opened for Leon Black.
An FBI interview conducted in August 2021 records Kirby saying she felt uncomfortable with Epstein’s onboarding from the beginning. The same interview says she did not recall flagging Epstein’s wires as suspicious and did not remember whether payments to women raised a red flag.
The evidence places Kirby inside the operational banking structure that allowed Epstein to move money after his conviction. It does not establish that she participated in sexual abuse or knew the full purpose of every transaction.
Overview
Amanda Kirby worked as a relationship assistant in Deutsche Bank’s Wealth Management division in New York. Her role placed her on the team led by private banker Paul Morris.
Morris had previously managed Epstein’s banking relationship at JPMorgan. After joining Deutsche Bank, Morris helped bring Epstein and his entities into the bank in 2013.
Kirby’s FINRA BrokerCheck report identifies her as a relationship assistant at Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas from June 2010 through February 2017. It also records her association with Deutsche Bank Securities from August 2011 through March 2017.
The report lists no disclosure events involving regulatory actions, customer disputes, criminal proceedings, civil judgments, employment terminations, or bankruptcy filings.
Kirby later worked in business development at Merrill Lynch, which operates through Bank of America. Public professional biographies have also identified her with senior business development and technology roles and with Do IT Solutions.
The Jmail Amanda Kirby archive indexes more than 6,300 emails involving Kirby. The correspondence spans the period when Deutsche Bank provided banking services to Epstein and his network of trusts, companies, attorneys, accountants, and assistants.
Kirby’s importance is operational. She was not presented in the records as the senior executive who approved Epstein as a client. She was one of the employees who kept the relationship functioning after that approval.
Identity Verification
The identity of the Amanda Kirby in the Epstein records is supported by employment records, email signatures, banking documents, and the FBI interview.
Kirby’s Deutsche Bank emails identify her as an associate or relationship assistant at Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas. Her signature lists the bank’s Wealth Management operation at 345 Park Avenue in New York.
The employment dates in her emails correspond with the dates reported in her FINRA BrokerCheck record.
The FBI interviewed Kirby on August 10, 2021, about her employment at Deutsche Bank and her work on Paul Morris’s team. The interview report appears in EFTA00128765.
The professional history, employer, job title, supervisor, office, and responsibilities align across the records. There is no reasonable indication that the banking documents concern a different Amanda Kirby.
Documented Epstein Connection
Amanda Kirby’s Epstein connection began through her employment at Deutsche Bank.
Kirby worked for Paul Morris, the relationship manager who brought Epstein’s business to Deutsche Bank after leaving JPMorgan. According to the FBI interview recorded in EFTA00128765, Epstein was Morris’s only client during the period when Kirby worked under him.
Kirby’s responsibilities included scheduling meetings, opening and maintaining accounts, processing transactions, communicating with Epstein’s employees, responding to internal bank inquiries, and helping complete compliance documentation.
Coordinating Epstein’s Deutsche Bank Relationship
In EFTA01350705, Kirby coordinated with Epstein assistant Lesley Groff about a meeting between Epstein and Deutsche Bank personnel in October 2013.
The meeting was rescheduled after Epstein’s travel plans changed. The exchange shows Kirby helping manage direct access between Epstein and the bank team servicing his accounts.
Another scheduling record, EFTA00384124, shows Kirby coordinating meetings and asking whether a proposed time worked for Epstein.
These records establish that Kirby’s work included more than back office data entry. She helped maintain the relationship between Epstein and Deutsche Bank personnel.
Promoting Epstein as an Important Client
One of the most significant documents is EFTA00128826, dated February 25, 2014.
The email concerns a $250,000 payment from Plan D LLC to Insured Aircraft Title Services. Kirby identified Plan D as an entity owned by Epstein and asked that the transaction be allowed to proceed.
Kirby wrote that Epstein held approximately $230 million at Deutsche Bank and that the bank expected at least another $100 million from him. She also emphasized that Epstein had introduced the team to other potential clients.
The email said Epstein was “a very important client” and that it was important for him to believe Deutsche Bank could handle all of his needs.
The message demonstrates how revenue and potential referrals shaped the bank’s treatment of Epstein. Kirby argued for the transaction by describing the financial consequences that might follow if Epstein became dissatisfied.
The document does not prove that Kirby personally approved Epstein’s onboarding. It does show her actively advocating for the bank to accommodate him after he became a client.
Processing Wires and Currency Transactions
Kirby regularly participated in transaction processing for Epstein related accounts.
In EFTA01456675, Kirby handled multiple wire instructions and confirmed completion of the transactions.
EFTA01345540 concerns a request for euros. EFTA01456805 documents coordination around a $380,000 margin call involving Southern Financial LLC.
EFTA01159231 shows Kirby copied on a European account wire transfer alongside members of Epstein’s legal and financial network, including Darren Indyke and Bella Klein.
In EFTA00128809, Darren Indyke directed a transfer of 13.7 million rubles from an Epstein account to AO Raiffeisenbank in Moscow. The instruction was addressed to Kirby and directed questions to Bella Klein.
These documents establish that Kirby was a regular operational contact for significant domestic and international financial activity.
They do not establish that she personally selected the beneficiaries or determined the underlying purposes of the transfers.
The Southwestern Trust Wire Error
December 2013 correspondence documents Kirby’s involvement in correcting a wire involving Southwestern Trust Company.
In EFTA01450582 and EFTA01450588, Jeanne Brennan Wiebracht contacted Kirby about an error in a wire transfer name field. Una Pascal was copied on the exchange.
The records show Kirby serving as the Deutsche Bank contact for correcting or investigating a transaction connected to an Epstein related entity.
The New York Strategy Group Inquiry
EFTA01471554 records an internal anti money laundering inquiry concerning funds connected to Michelle Saipher, Darren Indyke, New York Strategy Group LLC, and Epstein.
A Deutsche Bank compliance employee asked about Saipher’s relationship to Indyke and Epstein and questioned why funds were not sent directly to Epstein’s personal account.
Kirby responded that Saipher was Indyke’s wife. She explained that Epstein had loaned money to New York Strategy Group or Indyke and that the transfers represented loan repayment structured through the company for accounting purposes.
This exchange is important because it shows Kirby providing explanations to the bank’s anti money laundering function about transaction structure.
The document establishes the explanation Kirby supplied. It does not independently prove that the stated loan was legitimate or that compliance verified the underlying documentation.
Compliance Inquiries About Payments to Women
In EFTA01474278, Kirby forwarded a compliance inquiry concerning transfers from an Epstein related account to Richard Kahn.
Kahn supplied brief explanations for payments to women. Kirby functioned as the intermediary between the bank’s compliance personnel and Epstein’s financial office.
The record is relevant because New York regulators later concluded that Deutsche Bank processed numerous payments to women while failing to apply adequate scrutiny to Epstein’s activity.
Kirby’s participation in the inquiry establishes that she was part of the information channel through which Epstein’s representatives answered compliance questions.
It does not establish that Kirby knew whether any recipient was an abuse survivor, recruiter, employee, student, model, or personal acquaintance.
The Butterfly Trust High Risk Review
In February 2015, Kirby warned Paul Morris that changes to the Butterfly Trust would require a new Know Your Customer review.
In EFTA01412806, Kirby wrote that she would have to run research reports on the parties again. She explained that recent press concerning Epstein would generate alerts and send the matter to High Risk for approval.
This document is important because it shows that Kirby understood Epstein’s public history created compliance and reputational concerns.
The email also demonstrates that the continued relationship was not the product of a complete failure to notice Epstein’s history. The bank’s systems were capable of generating alerts. The larger failure was that alerts and warnings did not prevent the relationship from continuing.
Leon Black’s Accounts and Epstein’s Power of Attorney
Kirby also participated in establishing Deutsche Bank accounts for billionaire Leon Black.
In EFTA01457162, Deutsche Bank personnel discussed opening an account for Black and adding Epstein as his authorized representative.
Kirby explained the difference between limited and full power of attorney in EFTA02370847. A limited authorization would allow Epstein to trade. Full power would permit him to trade, move assets, and sign documents.
The response preserved in EFTA02370852 selected full power.
Kirby then helped arrange an introductory call involving the brokerage team in EFTA02683241.
These records establish that Kirby participated in the administrative process that gave Epstein broad authority over Black’s accounts.
They do not establish that Kirby originated the arrangement or independently decided the scope of Epstein’s authority.
The Karyna Shuliak Check Investigation
In August 2014, Kirby became involved in tracing a $1,070 transaction connected to Karyna Shuliak.
The transaction appeared as a preauthorized debit rather than a conventional check. In EFTA02717137, Kirby relayed that Deutsche Bank’s investigators could not initially find information showing that the debit was a check.
The bank’s investigation team ultimately contacted the United States Treasury to obtain an image, as documented in EFTA02331298.
The payment was connected to United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. Subsequent correspondence indicated that Shuliak had received travel authorization.
The evidence establishes that Kirby used Deutsche Bank’s internal investigation channels to help identify the transaction. It does not establish that she controlled or participated in Shuliak’s immigration process.
Kirby’s 2021 FBI Interview
The FBI interviewed Kirby on August 10, 2021. The 15 page interview report is preserved in EFTA00128765.
An FBI FD 302 is an agent’s summary of an interview. It is not a verbatim transcript, sworn deposition, or judicial finding.
According to the report, Kirby said she felt uncomfortable from the beginning of Epstein’s onboarding. She described Paul Morris as insecure and manipulative and said she did not like working with him.
Kirby reportedly went to human resources because she was uncomfortable working with Morris’s only client. The report also says she did not believe Morris had done anything unsavory regarding Epstein.
The interview records Kirby saying she prepared research material for Morris to present to senior Deutsche Bank personnel. That material emphasized that the bank would open entity accounts rather than personal accounts in Epstein’s name.
Kirby believed this language may have been intended to make senior personnel more comfortable with the relationship.
The report also says Kirby did not recall whether she had ever flagged an Epstein wire as suspicious. She did not remember whether transactions to women, foreign women, or entities raised red flags for her.
According to the interview summary, payments to women had become consistent with the expected activity of the Epstein accounts.
Kirby recalled processing wires involving MC2 Model Management but said she did not remember what MC2 was.
The report further describes a Butterfly Trust compliance alert involving a beneficiary identified in media reports as an alleged Epstein coconspirator. Kirby reportedly believed the alert would be cleared because similar alerts had been cleared previously.
These statements do not establish that Kirby knew Epstein was using Deutsche Bank accounts to facilitate continuing abuse. They do show that she was aware of his criminal reputation, handled transactions to women, saw recurring compliance alerts, and worked inside a system where those alerts were repeatedly cleared.
Evidence Appearances
EFTA00128765
Date: August 10, 2021 interview
Document type: FBI FD 302 interview report
Kirby’s role: Witness and former Deutsche Bank employee
Evidence: View EFTA00128765 on Epstein Data
The report describes Kirby’s role on Paul Morris’s team, her discomfort with Epstein’s onboarding, her work on Know Your Customer reviews, and her recollection of transaction monitoring.
It establishes what FBI agents recorded Kirby as saying. It is not a verbatim transcript or a finding that every statement was accurate.
EFTA00128826
Date: February 25, 2014
Document type: Internal Deutsche Bank email
Kirby’s role: Sender and relationship team member
Evidence: View EFTA00128826 on Epstein Data
Kirby urged the bank to process a $250,000 aircraft related payment. She emphasized Epstein’s wealth, assets held at Deutsche Bank, and ability to introduce other wealthy clients.
The document establishes that Kirby advocated for accommodating Epstein because of his financial value to the bank.
EFTA01350705
Date: September and October 2013
Document type: Meeting coordination email
Kirby’s role: Deutsche Bank coordinator
Evidence: View EFTA01350705 on Epstein Data
Kirby coordinated with Lesley Groff to schedule a meeting between Epstein and Deutsche Bank personnel.
The record establishes direct administrative support for the banking relationship.
EFTA01450582 and EFTA01450588
Date: December 2013
Document type: Wire correction correspondence
Kirby’s role: Deutsche Bank operational contact
Evidence: View EFTA01450582 and EFTA01450588 on Epstein Data
The correspondence concerns an error in a wire transfer name field involving Southwestern Trust Company.
The documents establish Kirby’s role in resolving transaction problems for an Epstein related entity.
EFTA01471554
Date: May 2014
Document type: Anti money laundering inquiry
Kirby’s role: Bank employee providing transaction explanation
Evidence: View EFTA01471554 on Epstein Data
Kirby explained transfers involving Michelle Saipher, Darren Indyke, New York Strategy Group, and Epstein as repayment of a loan.
The document establishes the explanation supplied to compliance. It does not independently verify the underlying loan.
EFTA02717137 and EFTA02331298
Date: August 2014
Document type: Transaction investigation
Kirby’s role: Deutsche Bank intermediary
Evidence: View EFTA02717137 and EFTA02331298 on Epstein Data
The records document efforts to identify a $1,070 payment connected to United States immigration processing for Karyna Shuliak.
The documents establish Kirby’s use of bank investigation resources. They do not establish involvement in Shuliak’s underlying immigration application.
EFTA01412806
Date: February 3, 2015
Document type: Know Your Customer correspondence
Kirby’s role: Relationship assistant coordinating compliance review
Evidence: View EFTA01412806 on Epstein Data
Kirby warned that press concerning Epstein would generate alerts and require High Risk approval for the Butterfly Trust update.
The record establishes awareness of Epstein’s reputational and compliance risk.
EFTA01456675
Date: February 2015
Document type: Wire processing correspondence
Kirby’s role: Transaction coordinator
Evidence: View EFTA01456675 on Epstein Data
The record documents Kirby processing and confirming multiple wires.
It establishes routine transaction servicing but does not reveal the purpose of every payment.
EFTA01456805
Date: February 2015
Document type: Margin call correspondence
Kirby’s role: Deutsche Bank coordinator
Evidence: View EFTA01456805 on Epstein Data
The record concerns a $380,000 margin call for Southern Financial LLC.
It establishes Kirby’s operational role in an Epstein related investment account.
EFTA01457162, EFTA02370847, and EFTA02370852
Date: April 2015
Document type: Account opening and power of attorney correspondence
Kirby’s role: Account documentation coordinator
Evidence: View EFTA01457162, EFTA02370847, and EFTA02370852 on Epstein Data
The correspondence concerns accounts for Leon Black and the decision to give Epstein full power of attorney.
The records establish Kirby’s role in explaining and processing the authorization. They do not establish that she originated or approved the arrangement.
EFTA01474278
Date: August 2015
Document type: Compliance inquiry concerning wire recipients
Kirby’s role: Intermediary between compliance and Epstein’s financial office
Evidence: View EFTA01474278 on Epstein Data
Kirby forwarded questions about payments to Richard Kahn and relayed the resulting information through the bank’s compliance process.
The record establishes that the payments received internal attention. It does not show that the inquiry resulted in meaningful restriction of Epstein’s accounts.
Relevant Timeline
June 2010: Kirby begins working as a relationship assistant at Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, according to her FINRA record.
August 2011: Kirby’s registration with Deutsche Bank Securities begins.
2013: Paul Morris brings Epstein’s business to Deutsche Bank after previously managing his relationship at JPMorgan.
September and October 2013: Kirby coordinates a meeting between Epstein and Deutsche Bank personnel in EFTA01350705.
December 2013: Kirby assists with a wire transfer correction involving Southwestern Trust Company in EFTA01450582 and EFTA01450588.
February 25, 2014: Kirby urges the bank to process a $250,000 payment and emphasizes Epstein’s financial importance in EFTA00128826.
May 2014: Kirby responds to an anti money laundering inquiry concerning transfers involving New York Strategy Group, Darren Indyke, Michelle Saipher, and Epstein in EFTA01471554.
August 2014: Kirby helps investigate a $1,070 transaction connected to immigration processing for Karyna Shuliak.
February 3, 2015: Kirby warns Paul Morris that Epstein related press will generate alerts and send a Butterfly Trust review to High Risk approval in EFTA01412806.
February 2015: Kirby processes wires and assists with a $380,000 margin call involving Southern Financial.
April 2015: Kirby helps establish Leon Black accounts and explains the authority Epstein would receive under limited and full power of attorney.
August 2015: Kirby forwards a compliance inquiry about transfers to women to Richard Kahn in EFTA01474278.
February 2017: Kirby’s reported employment with Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas ends.
March 2017: Her registration through Deutsche Bank Securities ends.
July 2020: The New York State Department of Financial Services imposes a $150 million penalty on Deutsche Bank for significant compliance failures, including failures involving Epstein.
August 10, 2021: FBI agents interview Kirby about Deutsche Bank’s Epstein relationship.
October 2023: A federal judge approves Deutsche Bank’s $75 million settlement with Epstein survivors. Deutsche Bank does not admit wrongdoing in the settlement.
Legal Status and Evidence Limits
Amanda Kirby has not been charged with an Epstein related crime.
Her FINRA BrokerCheck report lists no disclosure events.
No reviewed survivor statement accuses Kirby of participating in Epstein’s sexual abuse, recruiting victims, arranging massages, or knowingly financing trafficking.
No reviewed evidence places Kirby on Epstein’s aircraft or at his residences. Her documented role was centered on Deutsche Bank operations in New York.
The evidence does establish that Kirby knew Epstein presented significant reputational and compliance risk. She handled accounts and transactions involving his entities, employees, accountants, attorneys, women, models, and trusts.
Her February 2014 email also establishes that she promoted Epstein’s importance to the bank by emphasizing his assets and ability to attract additional wealthy clients.
The 2021 FBI interview introduces an unresolved tension. Kirby reportedly said she was uncomfortable with the relationship from the beginning. However, her emails show her continuing to service the relationship and advocate for the bank to meet Epstein’s needs.
That tension does not prove criminal intent. It does illustrate how personal discomfort can coexist with institutional compliance and revenue pressure.
The New York State Department of Financial Services enforcement action found that Deutsche Bank failed to monitor Epstein adequately despite knowing his criminal history.
The regulator identified payments to alleged coconspirators, settlement payments, legal expenses, payments to Russian models, tuition expenses, payments to women with Eastern European surnames, and more than $800,000 in suspicious cash withdrawals.
The regulator also found that conditions imposed on Epstein’s accounts were not communicated to most of the relationship team and were misinterpreted in ways that produced little meaningful change.
Those are findings about Deutsche Bank’s institutional failures. They should not automatically be converted into personal findings against every employee whose name appears in the records.
The survivor centered significance of Kirby’s correspondence is structural. It shows how Epstein’s accounts remained usable because employees processed his instructions, corrected his wires, explained his transactions, cleared administrative obstacles, and treated recurring payments as expected activity.
Epstein’s financial operation did not depend only on senior executives making one decision. It depended on a continuing system of ordinary banking work.
Sleuth and Independent Reporting
R. Howard Stone’s Deutsche Bank Know Your Customer investigation incorporates Kirby’s FBI interview and primary banking records.
Stone’s analysis identifies the tension between Kirby’s reported discomfort and her operational role. It also highlights her statements about transactions to women, MC2 Model Management wires, recurring compliance alerts, and the bank’s treatment of payments as expected account activity.
R. Howard Stone’s forensic accounting analysis uses Kirby’s interview to clarify the roles of Richard Kahn, Harry Beller, and Bella Klein inside Epstein’s financial administration.
The Jmail Amanda Kirby archive organizes thousands of messages involving Kirby and identifies her principal contacts, account servicing work, compliance correspondence, and involvement in the Leon Black authorization process. Jmail states that its encyclopedia summaries are generated from released government records, so important claims should be verified against the linked EFTA documents.
Reuters reported in February 2026 that Deutsche Bank continued providing services after notifying Epstein that it intended to terminate the relationship. The report reinforces the broader evidence that the bank’s separation from Epstein was delayed and incomplete.
Related EpsteinWiki Pages
- Amanda Kirby
- Jeffrey Epstein
- Leon Black and Jeffrey Epstein
- Karyna Shuliak
- Richard Kahn
- Bella Klein
- Senate Finance Report Details How Wall Street Banks Enabled Jeffrey Epstein’s Financial Network
Sources
- Amanda Kirby FINRA BrokerCheck report
- New York State Department of Financial Services enforcement announcement
- New York State Department of Financial Services consent order
- Amanda Kirby on Jmail
- R. Howard Stone: Deutsche Bank Know Your Customer investigation
- R. Howard Stone: Forensic accounting analysis
- Reuters: Inside Deutsche Bank’s slow split from Epstein
- Reuters: Court approves Deutsche Bank’s $75 million survivor settlement
- Epstein Data document archive