{"id":517731,"date":"2026-03-11T20:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T20:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/517731\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T20:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T20:43:08","slug":"tisch-family-looks-to-transfer-giants-stake-to-childrens-trusts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/517731\/","title":{"rendered":"Tisch family looks to transfer Giants stake to children&#8217;s trusts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seth Wickersham<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"author-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wickersham_seth.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Seth Wickersham<\/p>\n<p>ESPN Senior WriterSenior Writer for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine<br \/>\nJoined ESPN The Magazine after graduating from the University of Missouri.<br \/>\nAlthough he primarily covers the NFL, his assignments also have taken him to the Athens Olympics, the World Series, the NCAA tournament and the NHL and NBA playoffs.\u00a0and\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Raanan<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"author-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/raanan_jordan.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jordan Raanan<\/p>\n<p>ESPN Staff WriterJordan Raanan covers the New York Giants for ESPN and can be heard hosting on ESPN Radio. Raanan joined ESPN in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple Authors<\/p>\n<p>Mar 11, 2026, 01:16 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"378600ea-2397-8364-8399-b7c1606a49a7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/nyg\/new-york-giants\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Giants<\/a> co-owners Steve, Laurie and Jonathan Tisch are requesting to transfer their stakes in the team to their children&#8217;s trusts, according to an NFL memo obtained by ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>The move is subject to approval by the league&#8217;s finance committee, the memo shows. If approved, Steve, Laurie and Jonathan Tisch would &#8220;no longer own any interest&#8221; in the Giants, the memo states.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Prior transfers to these Trusts were completed pursuant to 2023 and 2024 Finance Committee approvals,&#8221; states the memo, which is dated March 11. &#8220;The Sellers now propose to transfer their entire remaining interests, totaling 23.1% of the Club, to the Trusts. &#8230; Following the transactions, the Sellers will no longer own any interest in the Club.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<p>When reached Wednesday and asked about the ownership transfer, a spokesperson for the Giants said he had &#8220;nothing to add.&#8221; A league spokesperson declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Steve Tisch, who is executive vice president and chairman of the board for the Giants, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/47782260\/giants-co-owner-steve-tisch-named-latest-epstein-files\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">appeared in the latest round of documents released by the Justice Department related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>. The documents showed scores of emails between Epstein and Tisch, in which Epstein repeatedly connected the co-owner to numerous women. Tisch also invited Epstein to the owner&#8217;s box for a Giants game.<\/p>\n<p>Most of Tisch&#8217;s correspondence with Epstein appears to be from about 2013, the documents show.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had a brief association where we exchanged emails about adult women, and in addition, we discussed movies, philanthropy and investments,&#8221; Tisch said of Epstein in a statement in January. &#8220;I did not take him up on any of his invitations and never went to his island. As we all know now, he was a terrible person and someone I deeply regret associating with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Several team executives and one owner have told ESPN they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/47809616\/nfl-look-giants-co-owner-tisch-epstein-files-connection\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expected an update on Tisch<\/a> ahead of this month&#8217;s league meetings in Arizona. The people with direct knowledge of the requested transfer who had seen the memo said the move was part of normal succession planning.<\/p>\n<p>Tisch has not been accused of any crimes. His future role with the team is unclear.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Giants co-owner Steve Tisch&#8217;s name appears at least 440 times among millions of documents in the latest release of Jeffrey Epstein files.\u00a0AP Photo\/Richard Drew<\/p>\n<p>Epstein was arrested in 2019 on federal sex trafficking charges. While awaiting trial, he was found dead in his jail cell on Aug. 10, 2019. The coroner ruled his death a suicide. Epstein faced accusations of sexually abusing underage girls. In 2008, Epstein was charged with soliciting a minor for prostitution in Florida and became a registered sex offender. He served 13 months of an 18-month prison sentence.<\/p>\n<p>The Tisch family co-owns the Giants with the Mara family, which has owned the franchise since its founding in 1925. Jonathan Tisch is the Giants&#8217; treasurer and is on the board, and Laurie Tisch is also on the board. John Mara is president and CEO. The Koch family purchased a noncontrolling stake in the team last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seth Wickersham Close Seth Wickersham ESPN Senior WriterSenior Writer for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine Joined ESPN The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-517731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}