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Jared Kushner denies Vanity Fair allegations about hacked phone and transfers

newsOct 23, 2026201,313

A Vanity Fair excerpt from Matthew Cole’s upcoming book Princes and Thieves reports that Dutch intelligence hackers obtained screenshots from Jared Kushner’s iPhone that showed he logged into a UAE-linked bank account which had received hundreds of millions of dollars from a bank in Azerbaijan. The excerpt says Dutch spies gained limited screen-viewing access after recruiting a Russian operative who had penetrated GRU servers, then reverse-engineering a vulnerability in Kushner’s iPhone X in early 2018. While monitoring Kushner’s screen, the MIVD discovered transfers and flagged the UAE account as an intelligence mystery; the article says the visible inflows totaled more than $700 million. Cole’s book links those transfers to broader dealings among Kushner, UAE ruler Mohamed bin Zayed, and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during Trump’s first term, and frames Kushner’s financial situation amid a looming billion-dollar loan on 666 Fifth Avenue as context for potential conflicts. The Vanity Fair excerpt presents these claims as part of a larger allegation that Kushner made secret, likely personally lucrative deals with Gulf states and Israel while serving in government.

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