Simon Andriesz, the former Wall Street managing director who took 2018 emails linking Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to Jeffrey Epstein before Congress, has died in an apparent suicide, according to new reporting.
Daily Caller reported that The Banker carried word of the death on Friday, and the head of a financial transparency group confirmed the loss.
Andy Agathangelou, who leads the Transparency Task Force and had hosted whistleblowing events with Andriesz, said the 57-year-old former British banker “passed away last week.”
Agathangelou stated:
“It is with great sadness that we share the news that Simon Andriesz, a valued member of our community, passed away last week.”
No city, official medical ruling, or police report is laid out in the available account. The manner of death is described only as an apparent suicide.
Before his death, Andriesz had pressed a serious claim about his former boss’s world.
He was a former employee tied to Lutnick’s orbit at BGC Partners, the brokerage firm inside the Cantor Fitzgerald group. During a dispute with that firm, he gave interviews to the FBI. He later said material connected to those interviews surfaced in Epstein files.
His core finding, as carried in the reporting, was a 2018 email chain between Lutnick and Epstein. In that chain, the two men discussed plans for a startup business they were working on together, including Epstein’s Adfin investment.
Andriesz also said Lutnick’s firms had planned in 2013 to go into business with then-Prince Andrew, who had his own public connection to Epstein. He shared his findings with the House Oversight Committee ahead of a scheduled May meeting with Lutnick.
On Aug. 9, while summarizing what he had found, Andriesz described the cost in blunt terms.
He said:
“The personal consequences of whistleblowing, and the retaliation I say followed, have been devastating for my family and me.”
He did not spell out, in the material provided, what form that retaliation took.
Rep. Thomas Massie put the death and the email claims into a public post on X on Oct. 4, 2026.
Massie wrote:
“Simon Andriesz, the British banker who uncovered 2018 emails linking Howard Lutnick to Jeffrey Epstein’s Adfin investment and took them to House Oversight, has died at age 57. BBC reported his findings. Lutnick later admitted to visiting the island but not the business dealings.”
That post frames the open political tension. Email traffic about a business plan is one issue. A later admission of an island visit, without acceptance of the business claims, is another. The public record still needs the underlying documents, not summaries of them.
Lutnick is now U.S. secretary of commerce. He testified Feb. 10, 2026, before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee in Washington covering commerce and justice issues.
Through The Banker’s account, Lutnick’s response to the Epstein connection was absolute condemnation of the predator’s crimes and of anyone who joined in them.
Lutnick said:
“I unequivocally condemn the conduct attributed to Jeffrey Epstein and everyone who participated in his illegal activities.”
He added that the survivors “deserve our respect and support.”
Epstein remains what the reporting calls a convicted sex offender and financier. Ghislaine Maxwell, his associate, was convicted of sex trafficking. None of that history is in dispute here. What remains unsettled in this account is the full paper trail Andriesz said he delivered, and what House Oversight did with it.
The timeline Andriesz forced into view is not subtle. 2013 brought a planned business tie to then-Prince Andrew, per his research. 2018 brought the email chain with Epstein about a startup. Years later he walked those findings into the House. Then came his death notice, framed only as an apparent suicide, with no place of death and no public examiner’s statement attached in this reporting.
BBC coverage of his findings is referenced in the same account. So is The Banker’s death report. Primary email text is not reproduced. The precise Oversight follow-up is not described. The specific “retaliation” Andriesz alleged is not itemized.
Those are not minor gaps. When a former managing director says he found business traffic between a future commerce secretary and Jeffrey Epstein, and then says the blowback wrecked his family, the country is owed documents, dates, and sworn answers, not fog.
Whistleblowers are often inconvenient. Epstein’s network thrived on convenience, silence, and protected men. Full files, not careful distance, are how that rot finally gets cleaned out.
