Deutsche Bank’s Epstein Files Throw Family Offices Into the Open

Among the trove of material released as part of the US government’s Jeffrey Epstein investigation is a stash of Deutsche Bank AG files that shed light on one of global finance’s most private corners.

Around 40,000 documents from Germany’s biggest lender reveal details of family offices for some of the world’s wealthiest people — caught up in the US Department of Justice’s massive data dump simply because they shared the same banker as the deceased sex offender.

The latest cache is causing consternation for those named in Deutsche Bank’s disclosures, raising concern over unwarranted harm to their reputations through ...