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France’s erstwhile Culture Minister Jack Lang has resigned arsenic caput of a Paris taste halfway implicit alleged past fiscal links to convicted enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein that prompted a taxation investigation.
Mr. Lang was summoned to look astatine the French Foreign Ministry, which oversees the Arab World Institute, connected Sunday (February 8, 2026), but helium submitted his resignation.
He is the highest-profile fig successful France impacted by the merchandise of Epstein files connected January 30 by the U.S. Department of Justice, known for his relation arsenic a Culture Minister nether Socialist President François Mitterrand successful the 1980s and 1990s.
The Foreign Ministry confirmed his resignation connected Saturday (February 7, 2026) evening.
The fiscal prosecutors' bureau said it had opened an probe into Mr. Lang and his daughter, Caroline, implicit alleged “aggravated taxation fraud laundering.”
French investigative quality website Mediapart reported past week connected alleged fiscal and concern ties betwixt the Mr. Lang household and Jeffrey Epstein done an offshore institution based successful the U.S. Virgin Islands successful the Caribbean Sea.
Jack Lang's sanction was mentioned much than 600 times successful the Epstein files, showing intermittent correspondence betwixt 2012 and 2019. His girl was besides successful the released files.
Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot has “taken note” of Mr. Lang's resignation and began the process to look for his successor, the Foreign Ministry said.
Mr. Lang headed the Arab World Institute since 2013.
