Elon Musk had more extensive ties to Epstein than previously known, emails show

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/30/elon-musk-epstein-files-island-visits

Newly released files from DoJ show the pair making plans in 2013 for the Tesla CEO to visit Epstein’s private island

Elon Musk had more extensive – and more friendly – communications with the financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein than previously publicly known, according to documents released on Friday by the Department of Justice. Emails in the files appear to show the two cordially messaging each other to make plans for Musk to visit Epstein’s island.

The documents include Musk and Epstein emailing in December 2013 to determine when Musk should make the trip to Little St James.

Musk has been harshly critical of those linked to Epstein, but the newly released emails appear to contradict his own longstanding denial of any ties of his own. The Tesla CEO told Vanity Fair in 2019 that Epstein was “obviously a creep” and claimed that Epstein “tried repeatedly to get me to visit his island. I declined.” The emails between the two moguls come years after Epstein was convicted in 2008 of soliciting prostitution from a minor in Florida. Authorities later arrested Epstein in 2019 on federal sex-trafficking charges.

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P1nkman@lemmy.world · 131 pts · 188d

No way that the world's most richest child is s child molester. I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked!

UnspecificGravity@piefed.social · 90 pts · 188d (1 reply)

Dude has fathered like 20 children without having had actual sex with anyone. That doesn't exactly fill you with confidence that he has a normal attitude towards sex or adult women.

Then there is the little fact that he spent untold millions, if not billions, of dollars on having the brightest minds on earth devise a CSAM generation engine.

ephrin@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 188d

Definitely billions.

18107@aussie.zone · 77 pts · 188d (3 replies)

It's always the ones you most expect.

Tryenjer@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 188d (2 replies)

A pdf ring took over the US government to avoid going to prison. They will dismantle democracy if it means they will never be prosecuted for their heinous crimes.

Now it makes sense why they are willing to destroy the very system that protected them and from which their fortunes are derived. It's either this or prison! It may not seem like it, but deep down they are desperate.

Formfiller@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 187d

Don’t forget Israel’s part in all of this

Aljernon@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 187d

raping kids is just a part of the organized criminal activity that seems to bind alot of these figures together.

wirebeads@lemmy.ca · 76 pts · 188d (4 replies)

Funny how denial is the just them admitting the truth once it’s released.

All the slimeballs need to be in jail and not in power.

partofthevoice@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 188d (3 replies)

You know something? If a group of individuals stood in solidarity, claimed responsibility to enforce moral law, and fought to arrest Trump under their own self-proclaimed authority… I wouldn’t even be mad. In the past, people would have said “let the rule of law work it out.” At this point, however, the authority of a militia would not be too far off from the authority of Trump. Trump takes the situation into his own hands (those tiny little hands), with self-proclaimed Presidential powers up and beyond that of even Unitary Executive Theory. Something to contest that authority with its own would be welcomed in my book.

ViceroTempus@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 188d (1 reply)

Well that's the thing, isn't it? We can't bring them down with the legal systems that The Billionaires have built for themselves.

If we want Justice then like minded individuals have to be willing to group up, and deliver that Justice upon their heads. We have to work outside of their legal systems.

MrShankles@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 187d

Doesn't even need violence. Just like-minded numbers that want accountability from representatives. People back down from a show of force, whether that be from kinetic energy or potential. Numbers enmass is enough to enforce change, without violence... simply with the implicative. Inevitably people will get hurt (we're past that), but true consequences are often worse than death

Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 187d

I'd support a coup against Trump.

devolution@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 188d

Rich conservatives who want to overthrow democracy mysteriously are all pedophiles?

Wonder if Bezos, Pachai, and Zuckerberg went too.

ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca · 33 pts · 188d (11 replies)

So what? trump, musk, bezos, and all the elite are untouchable. They can go live on tv and rape, murder, and eat kids and no one can do anything. Who's going to stop them or prosecute them? god?

ViceroTempus@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 188d (2 replies)

Inside the legal system they built for themselves they are untouchable.

However, I wonder what would happen if we ignored their legal system?

ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 188d

I wonder too.

Aljernon@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 187d

WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com · 17 pts · 188d (5 replies)

Mario?

Klear@quokk.au · 15 pts · 188d (4 replies)

No, no. The other one.

WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com · 19 pts · 188d (1 reply)

Wario!?

ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 188d

No, Waluigi.

SGforce@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 188d

I am sorry, green Mario

ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 188d

An army of them.

Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 187d

You gave up. It's so early, and you gave up.

No need to keep trying. We're done with you.

hector@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 187d

They are untouchable, for now. If we do develop into a one-party state fixing elections which appears more than likely, the administration will turn on them sooner than later, they will cannibalize them. If history is any guide which it is.

ameancow@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 188d
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frog_brawler@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 187d (1 reply)
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stressballs@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 187d

That explains why he's such an expert on being pedophile in Thailand

BillyClark@piefed.social · 23 pts · 188d

I can't believe one of the best gamers in the world would just make things up and lie.

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 188d

Didn't he say he'd go to prison if Kamala was elected?

Formfiller@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 187d (2 replies)

Is it guillotine time yet? I’m kinda thinking wood chipper? Anyone concur?

bluesheep@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 187d

I think we should just stay with the classics. And as an added benefit, a guillotine doesn't produce any pollution!

Zier@fedia.io · 5 pts · 187d

How about a test flight to Mars? Captain Pedo seems to be obsessed with it, so, bye bye Felon Musk.

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 19 pts · 188d

wat?!?!?!

Almacca@aussie.zone · 19 pts · 188d

Nothing's been done about the crimes he openly committed at DOGE, and everything else he was being investigated for before he shut them all down. This information is only interesting if there's any consequences for it, and I have zero confidence of that happening.

Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 187d

He's Elon Musk. Of course he's a pedophile. Why else project that onto a hero that rescued kids?

Taleya@aussie.zone · 11 pts · 187d (1 reply)

Thing people forget is that epstein was a purveyor. Teens to rape was just one of the things he provided.

Musk was probably hunting people for sport

Aljernon@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 187d

Epstein was a black mailer. The raping of teens was less the business than collecting kompromat. There are persistent rumors that Epstein was part of the enforcement arm for a money laundering operation involving Trump.

4grams@awful.systems · 10 pts · 188d (1 reply)

The his really is the epstein administration, isn’t it.

hector@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 187d

Epstrin admin is israel sdmin.

ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 188d

Pedo Nazi

0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 187d (1 reply)

Peas of a pod.

floofloof@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 187d

Pedos of a pod.

some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 8 pts · 188d (1 reply)

Not mister potato head!

Zier@fedia.io · 2 pts · 187d

Yes! Let that (bathroom) sink in.

TommySoda@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 188d

My hope is that someone with a sense of vengeance gets fucked over by this and starts taking revenge on everyone else involved. I'd absolutely love to see these pieces of shit eat themselves alive. With how evil these people are there is no way in hell they don't have dirt on each other.

ikidd@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 188d (1 reply)

I asked Grok about it and reached "my current limit" within two questions when I sent a last message saying that the responses it was giving me sounded like blatant lies.

stressballs@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 187d

Mental gymnastics are energy intensive!

hopesdead@startrek.website · 5 pts · 188d

So are the Tesla supporters gonna turn on him?

shithawk@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 187d

Anyone who's reviewed the emails released by Epstein's estate would know this already - along with eye of Sauron boy, but unfortunately, society has forgot how to read.

DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 187d

They all did. That's why we need the unredacted files released.