Douglas Latchford

British antiquities dealer who operated from Bangkok, Thailand, specializing in Cambodian Khmer art and sculptures. Born October 15, 1931 in Mumbai, British India. In November 2019, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York indicted Latchford on five counts including wire fraud conspiracy, smuggling, and trafficking in looted Cambodian antiquities. Prosecutors alleged he served for decades as a "conduit" for illegally excavated artifacts from ancient Cambodian temples, creating false provenance documents and falsifying invoices to sell hundreds of works on the international art market. Latchford died on August 2, 2020 at age 89 in Bangkok before extradition to the United States; the criminal indictment was dismissed the following month.

Civil forfeiture actions continued against his estate, resulting in a $12 million settlement with the U.S. government and the return of 30 looted antiquities to Cambodia. Latchford's connection to the Epstein network emerged through the January 2026 DOJ EFTA document release. A spreadsheet in the files titled "Leon Black / Narrows South East Asian Art Inventory," dated April 2014, itemizes 12 Southeast Asian bronze and stone sculptures in Leon Black's collection with a total estimated market value of $27.7 million. The most expensive work, a $7 million Khmer Shiva bronze dating to 1044, matches a sculpture from a "private collection" that Latchford featured in his 2004 book "Adoration and Glory: The Golden Age of Khmer Art," co-authored with art historian Emma C. Bunker.

A Black spokesperson stated he "never met nor acquired anything directly from Latchford," but the provenance trail through Latchford's published scholarship raises questions about the supply chain for Black's Cambodian collection. Leon Black paid Epstein at least $170 million between 2012 and 2017 for tax and estate planning advice, and Narrows Holdings LLC was the entity through which Black held much of his art collection. The EFTA files contain extensive documentation of Narrows-related art transactions, valuations, and restructuring plans managed by Epstein's financial team.