Jean-Yves Ollivier

Jean-Yves Ollivier is a French businessman known in African diplomatic circles as Monsieur Afrique. In 1988, acting through back channels and without official mandate, he brokered the negotiations that produced the Brazzaville Protocol, leading to the Cuban withdrawal from Angola and Namibian independence. He is named by Rigobert Andely as one of his two principals on the Congo Brazzaville bank project, alongside Peter Mandelson. Ollivier had already met Ghanim Bin Saad Al Saad of Qatari Diar in Brazzaville before Mandelson brought Epstein into the project. In Andely's January 2011 cancellation email to Epstein, Ollivier is listed as one of the authorities who sanctioned the 22 Avenue Foch meeting. In October 2014, Peggy Siegal invited Epstein to a private New York screening of Plot for Peace, a documentary about Ollivier's Angola work. His personal connection to Epstein runs through both the Congo bank project and Siegal's social network.