Jared Kushner

In 2018, while Kushner worked in the White House, his family was in debt on its flagship tower, 666 Fifth Avenue. Brookfield rescued it by prepaying about $1.1 billion on a 99-year lease; Qatar's sovereign fund owned about 9 percent of the Brookfield affiliate that made the deal.

In 2021, six months after Kushner left the White House, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund put $2 billion into his new firm, Affinity Partners. The fund's own advisers recommended against it; Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman overruled them, The New York Times reported.

In 2024, Qatar's sovereign fund and Abu Dhabi's Lunate put $1.5 billion into Affinity Partners.

In September 2024, the Senate Finance Committee said its investigation had found that Affinity collected as much as $157 million in fees from foreign clients, $87 million of it from the Saudi government, and that as of July 2024 it had produced no returns for its investors.

Kushner is a partner, with Saudi Arabia's sovereign fund and Silver Lake, in the $55 billion takeover of Electronic Arts.

After Kushner went back to work for his father-in-law, The New York Times reported in March 2026 that he was raising $5 billion or more for a second fund, with Saudi Arabia's fund as the anchor investor.

In September 2026, The New Yorker reported that Kushner was raising about $5 billion for Affinity from Middle Eastern investors while Kushner was negotiating with Iran.

In February 2024, four months into the war, Kushner told an interviewer from Harvard's Middle East Initiative that "Gaza's waterfront property could be very valuable," The Jewish Chronicle reported. "From Israel's perspective I would do my best to move the people out and then clean it up," he said. He added: "But I don't think that Israel has stated that they don't want the people to move back there afterward."

On Jan. 16, 2026, the White House named the Board of Peace's executive board, whose members include Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Kushner, Steve Witkoff, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Marc Rowan, chief executive of Apollo Global Management. Kushner sits on both of the Board of Peace's executive boards.

Project Sunrise, a reconstruction plan drawn up before Davos by a team led by Kushner and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, had the United States providing $60 billion to "anchor" the program, The Wall Street Journal reported.

On Jan. 22, 2026, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Kushner presented a "New Gaza" with 180 towers along the coast, four districts for Palestinians to live in, and parks and industrial zones that appear at least as large as the housing, NPR reported. The plan designated the entire coastline for "coastal tourism." Reconstruction "would only commence in areas of Gaza where Hamas is fully disarmed," NPR reported, "or already emptied of Palestinians and under Israeli military control."

At Davos, Kushner said there is "no plan B," presenting his plan as the only option. He credited work on the plan to Yakir Gabay, a member of the Gaza Executive Board, who he said had "volunteered to do this not for profit."

On Aug. 9, 2026, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the board's 15-point plan for the ceasefire's next phase. Kushner, Blair and Nickolay Mladenov, the Board of Peace's High Representative for Gaza, met him in Jerusalem on Aug. 17. Israel and the board agreed to set up working groups, including one on disarming Gaza, and said disarmament should be finished before reconstruction starts, The National reported. As of Oct. 25, 2026, Trump's peace plan had stalled, "with Hamas refusing to disarm and Israel refusing to withdraw from any part of Gaza until that condition is met," the Times of Israel reported.

After the 2016 election, according to the Mueller report, Kushner's friend Rick Gerson worked with Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia's sovereign wealth fund, on a plan for US-Russian relations that was passed to Kushner. Dmitriev went on to become Witkoff and Kushner's counterpart in the Ukraine talks.

In October 2025, the Treasury sanctioned Lukoil, Russia's second-largest oil company, which forced it to sell its oil fields, refineries and gas stations outside Russia, worth about $20 billion; no buyer can close without a Treasury license. According to The New York Times, the deal became part of Witkoff and Kushner's Ukraine talks with the Kremlin, with a substantial upfront payment and a share of the profits for the United States. Putin first raised Lukoil with them at a meeting on Sept. 5, 2026. He proposed the deal, and the Americans said they would work on it. In most of these deals, the stake belongs to an American agency, not to a person, and that nothing in the record shows Trump, Witkoff or Kushner pocketing a share.

As the Times story circulated, Kirill Dmitriev jumped into Kushner's replies on X: "Jared is a Peacemaker."

In early October 2026, at talks in Miami, Witkoff and Kushner proposed moving part of the Russian central bank money frozen in the West into a vehicle under Washington's control. Europe said no, the Financial Times reported.

Asked on 60 Minutes in 2025 about conflicts of interest, Kushner answered: "What people call conflicts of interest, Steve and I call experience and trusted relationships."

As of October 2026, Kushner, as an unpaid envoy, files no public financial disclosure.

On Oct. 5, 2026, Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, asked Kushner for a list of Affinity's investments since January 2025 in Gaza, Israel, the Gulf and elsewhere in the Middle East.

On Oct. 14, 2026, the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington sued the White House, arguing that Kushner's work as an envoy for Trump requires him to file financial disclosures.

In September 2026, The New Yorker reported that Saudi money paid for about $300 million of Affinity's stake in Phoenix Financial, an Israeli insurer.

Affinity Partners is the largest shareholder in the Israeli insurer Phoenix, which holds at least $265 million in the Israeli defense company Elbit Systems, CNN reported on Oct. 1, 2026.

Phoenix was also the largest institutional shareholder in Smart Shooter, an Israeli maker of AI-assisted rifle sights whose technology the Israeli army has used in Gaza and which has won a US military contract worth up to $150 million, The Telegraph reported.

A whistleblower complaint says that in spring 2025, an intercept of two foreigners discussing Kushner in connection with Iran was restricted by the then-director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, after she met with the White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles. The DNI's office has refused to give Congress the unredacted material, citing executive privilege, though Kushner held no government job at the time.

Mediators told The New York Times in May 2026 that Witkoff and Kushner had floated real estate projects in Tehran and an investment fund. In paragraph 6 of the memorandum the United States and Iran signed on June 17, 2026, Washington "undertakes with regional partners to develop a definitive mutually agreed plan with at least USD 300 billion" for Iran's reconstruction and economic development. The partners were not named. The ceasefire broke down in July 2026 before the fund was set up.

Under a plan Washington was working out with Doha in June 2026, the $6 billion of Iran's money that has sat in Qatari banks since 2023 would be released to buy food and medicine. Vice President JD Vance credited the arrangement to Kushner: "Jared Kushner actually came up with a very interesting solution with the Qataris."

In Serbia, prosecutors indicted the culture minister and three others after a heritage official admitted forging the opinion that had cleared Kushner's planned redevelopment of the bombed army headquarters in Belgrade. Affinity walked away in December 2025.

Assets Group, a company run by the Khayyat brothers, who also run UCC Holding, is a partner in Kushner's planned luxury resort on Albania's Sazan island: corporate documents reviewed by CBS News list it as one, and a project spokesperson confirmed the brothers' involvement.

In Albania, an anti-corruption prosecutor opened an investigation in June 2026 into the protected-status changes behind Kushner's island resort at Sazan.

In March 2017, the Indian businessman Anil Ambani purportedly texted Epstein: "Leadership wld like ur help for me to meet jared and bannon asap," ThePrint reported, apparently referring to Jared Kushner, then a senior White House adviser, and Steve Bannon, then Trump's chief strategist. Ambani did not respond to ThePrint, which did not report any meeting with Kushner or Bannon.

In February 2026, the Justice Department sent Congress a list of government officials and "politically exposed persons" named in the files, and Kushner is on it; the list warns that names appear "in a wide variety of contexts," some only in press reporting. In the messages reported so far, Kushner appears as a name others sought to reach. He is not accused of any crime involving Epstein.