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Kim Kardashian was also interviewed about her interactions with Jho Low
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Links with Malaysian financier-turned-fugitive Jho Low are detailed in new FBI documents.
According to a report from Bloomberg DiCaprio was interviewed as a potential witness by the FBI in 2018 about his relationship with Low, accused of embezzling $4.5 billion from Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund, 1Malaysia Development Berhard (1MDB).
DiCaprio is said to have first met Low at a New York nightclub in 2010 and later became close.
Low is said to have showered the actor with gifts, including a first edition of The Great Gatsby and Marlon Brando’s Oscar for On The Waterfront and helped finance the 2013 film The wolf of Wall Street directed by Martin Scorsese and starring DiCaprio.
“I was working for him…and that business also translates to being social,” DiCaprio told a grand jury, according to the report. “Then we saw each other more, and there was more interaction.”
According to FBI documents , Low called DiCaprio “L-Dogg”. They also discussed a billion-dollar fund for future projects, along with a Warner Bros. theme park in Asia with attractions based on the actor’s films.
The actor said he began to distance himself from Low when news of his alleged crimes surfaced in 2015. According to a report from the New York Times In 2018, DiCaprio forfeited Low’s gifts under a government order seizing all of Low’s U.S. property.
DiCaprio was not the only celebrity interviewed by the FBI in connection with Low. According to the report, Kim Kardashian was also questioned by authorities, who recalled that she once stayed up until 5 a.m. in a Las Vegas casino with Low.
Low, who is believed to be hiding in China from international authorities, was indicted in 2021 for the US Department of Justice . of clandestine lobbying for allegedly trying to influence the government to drop the investigation against him and 1MDB.
