The French Minister of Foreign Affairs announced Friday that Jack Lang was summoned to the Quai d'Orsay on Sunday to explain his past links with American financier and sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. Calls for resignation are increasing against the president of the Arab World Institute and former Minister of Culture of François Mitterrand.

Published on: 06/02/2026 - 11:49

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The president of the Arab World Institute (IMA), Jack Lang, will be received at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday to explain his past links with American financier and sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, Minister Jean-Noël Barrot announced to AFP on Friday February 6.

“He has been summoned by the ministry and will be received on Sunday,” he declared from Erbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan, where he is traveling.

Asked by AFP, Jack Lang did not immediately respond to the agency.

Calls for his resignation grew after links to Jeffrey Epstein were exposed by the release of millions of documents by the US Department of Justice.

The French executive estimated Thursday evening that the former Minister of Culture, aged 86, should "think about the institution" of the IMA, which he has headed since 2013. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, whose subsidy represents half of the IMA budget, announced his convening immediately, without specifying a date.

Mentioned 673 times in the “Epstein files”

On Wednesday, Jack Lang formally ruled out resigning, citing his “naivety” in the face of revelations about his past links with Jeffrey Epstein, who died in prison in 2019.

No charges are brought against Jack Lang and his presence in these three million documents does not imply any wrongdoing on his part.

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But the mention of his name 673 times and his links of interest with the American financier tarnished him and his daughter Caroline.

The latter resigned on Monday as head of a film producers' union after revelations about an "offshore" company that she founded in 2016 with the American businessman.

With AFP

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