Kushner Rejects Book Allegations of Hacked iPhone and Gulf Funds

Jared Kushner rejected claims made in a new book that allege his iPhone was hacked and that he held billions of dollars in foreign funds. The accusations appear in "Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed's Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East" by journalist Matthew Cole.

The book asserts that Kushner had access to over $2 billion in slush funds from Middle Eastern leaders. It states the money was meant to buy influence within the U.S. government. An excerpt published in Vanity Fair on Thursday covers Kushner’s tenure as a senior White House adviser during the first Trump administration.

According to the excerpt, Dutch intelligence agents learned in 2017 that Russia had hacked Kushner’s device. The report says the agents discovered this after turning a Russian spy. It claims the Dutch service could see Kushner’s screen and captured every image he viewed while he used the phone.

The text alleges that Dutch spies watched Kushner log into a United Arab Emirates account. The account supposedly received hundreds of millions of dollars from a bank in Azerbaijan. The book further claims that leaders from Saudi Arabia and the UAE placed at least $2 billion into bank accounts tied to Kushner. One of these accounts was reportedly held at Israel's Central Bank.

Kushner and his legal team issued statements on Thursday night denying the allegations. Kushner described the claims as completely insane and said they never happened. He noted that the author offered no verifiable evidence, such as bank statements, wire transfer records, or account numbers.

His attorney called the claims false and defamatory. The legal team said they plan to pursue legal action against those responsible, though they did not specify who that includes. The White House directed media inquiries to Steven Cheung, the White House director of communications.

Cheung called the book complete fiction on X. He described the author as a failed spy thriller writer who presented only mysterious words from unnamed sources without evidence or documentation.