EXCLUSIVE: Jeffrey Epstein boasted about a 2012 lunch meeting with Elon Musk that took place AFTER the registered sex offender served a year in jail for procuring underage girls for prostitution
- An email from February 2012 from Jeffrey Epstein to a friend, who wishes to not be named, read, ‘Just finished lunch with boris (Nikolic) and (Elon) musk’
- This is a previously unknown encounter between the late pedophile and the world’s richest man as he’s know been subpoenaed over their relationship
- The meet up was after Epstein served a 13-month jail sentence for admitting to soliciting a minor for prostitution and was labeled a registered sex offender
Jeffrey Epstein bragged about meeting Elon Musk in 2012 in a previously unknown encounter between the two.
DailyMail.com can reveal that the late pedophile said he met the world’s richest man at the TED conference that year in Long Beach, California.
Epstein told an acquaintance that he had just had lunch with Musk and Boris Nikolic, the former scientific advisor to Bill Gates who the financier named as an executor of his will.
The details emerged weeks after Musk was subpoenaed by the government of the US Virgin Islands over his ties to the pedophile.
Jeffrey Epstein and Elon Musk met for lunch in 2012, DailyMail.com can reveal. The meet up was after Epstein served a 13-month jail sentence for admitting to soliciting a minor for prostitution and was labeled a registered sex offender
The email from February 2012 from Jeffrey Epstein to an acquaintance, who wishes to not be named, read, ‘Just finished lunch with boris (Nikolic) and (Elon) musk’
Epstein told the acquaintance that he had just had lunch with Musk and Boris Nikolic, the former scientific advisor to Bill Gates who the financier named as an executor of his will. Epstein, Gates and Nikolic are pictured together
The subpoena suggested that Epstein played a role in Musk’s companies such as Tesla banking with JPMorgan.
Musk dismissed the suggestion on Twitter and said it was ‘idiotic on so many levels’.
But the 2012 email suggests the men were closer than had previously been thought, even though Epstein had by then served 13 months in jail for soliciting a minor for prostitution.
As part of the terms of his release, Epstein had to become a registered sex offender yet he continued meeting powerful and well connected men.
TED2012 was themed ‘Full Spectrum’ and lasted from February 27 to March 2 that year in Long Beach and Palm Springs, California.
Speakers included poets, photographers, climatologists, and the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, who was listed as flying on one of Epstein’s planes and was photographed with him in 2014.
Dated February 28, 2012, the email from Epstein to an acquaintance read: ‘Just finished lunch with boris (Nikolic) and (Elon) musk. Will be at the westin (hotel) in about 30 minutes.’
The new details emerged weeks after Musk was subpoenaed by the government of the US Virgin Islands over his ties to the pedophile. Epstein’s private island is pictured
A source told DailyMail.com: ‘If you moved in those circles around that time then you’d see Epstein at these kinds of events.
‘Nobody really knew what he was doing but he was very interested in people and networking.
A source described Epstein as a ‘prolific name dropper’ and would mention that he was friends with the likes of Prince Andrew
‘He’d host these salon style events at his house where he’d invite half a dozen people over and then hold court.
‘I’ve seen some reports about him making crude jokes but he could be very charming and if he was interested in what you had to say, he’d ask questions or just sit back and listen while people talked among themselves.
The source described Epstein as a ‘prolific name dropper’ and would mention that he was friends with the likes of Ehud Barak regularly.
According to the source: ‘Epstein would say something like he was staying at Sandringham with Prince Andrew or going shooting with him. It did impress some of the guests’.
Previous reports have shown Musk had contact with Epstein or his associates on other occasions around this time period.
In 2011 Musk dined with Epstein as part of a ‘billionaire’s dinner’ organized by a friend of his, along with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Google cofounder Sergey Brin, among others.
Three years later in 2014 he was photographed with Epstein’s madam Ghislaine Maxwell at a Vanity Fair Oscars afterparty.
When the photograph resurfaced in 2020 Musk said he didn’t know her at all and claimed that she ‘photobombed’ him.
However a New York Times report contradicted this and said that a Vanity Fair staff member at the time said they saw Musk and Maxwell talking.
Maxwell supposedly asked if there was a way to ‘remove oneself from the internet’ and encouraged Musk to ‘destroy the internet’.
After that Maxwell asked why aliens haven’t made contact with humanity yet.
A 2019 report from Vanity Fair said that a few years earlier, Musk attended a dinner in Palo Alto, California hosted by LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman.
Speakers at the TED conference included poets, photographers, climatologists, and the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker (right) who was listed as flying on one of Epstein’s planes and was photographed with him in 2014
The Tesla CEO apparently took questions from convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell at a Vanity Fair party where a now-infamous photo of the two together emerged
Among the guests was MIT neuroscientist Ed Boyden and Epstein, the report claimed. Vanity Fair said that during the evening Musk introduced Epstein to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
A spokesman for Zuckerberg said at the time that he ‘met Epstein in passing one time at a dinner ‘honoring scientists that was not organized by Epstein’.
In the same article Musk gave his fullest accounting to date of his dealings with Epstein.
Musk said: ‘I don’t recall introducing Epstein to anyone, as I don’t know the guy well enough to do so, Epstein is obviously a creep and Zuckerberg is not a friend of mine.
‘Several years ago, I was at his house in Manhattan for about 30 minutes in the middle of the afternoon with Talulah (Riley, his ex-girlfriend) as she was curious about meeting this strange person for a novel she was writing. We did not see anything inappropriate at all, apart from weird art. He tried repeatedly to get me to visit his island. I declined’.
A Musk spokesperson added: ‘Elon never introduced Jeffrey Epstein to Mark Zuckerberg and does not know either person well enough to do so. They simply happened to be guests at a neuroscience dinner organized by Reid Hoffman’.
Last month the USVI subpoenaed Musk as part of its investigation into Epstein’s sex trafficking operation – prosecutors are suing JPMorgan for turning a blind eye and facilitating the abuse
Musk fired back against the subpoena in a tweet last month
In May this year the USVI subpoenaed Musk as part of its investigation into Epstein’s sex trafficking operation – prosecutors are suing JPMorgan for turning a blind eye and facilitating the abuse.
The legal request asked for: ‘All Documents reflecting or regarding Communications between You and JPMorgan regarding Epstein or Epstein’s role with respect to Your accounts, transactions, or financial management’.
Musk fired back on Twitter and said: ‘1. That cretin never advised me on anything whatsoever. 2. The notion that I would need or listen to financial advice from a dumb crook is absurd. 3. JPM let Tesla down ten years ago, despite having Tesla’s global commercial banking business, which we then withdrew. I have never forgiven them.’
Musk did not address how exactly his companies came to bank with JPMorgan and whether he was introduced to anyone at the bank by Epstein.
A spokeswoman for Musk has previously said: ‘It is incorrect to say that Epstein ever advised Elon on anything.’
Among the other links between Musk and Epstein was a 2020 report from Insider which claimed that the pedophile introduced Musk’s younger brother Kimbal to a woman in his entourage.
The thinking was that the relationship would help keep Musk close to Epstein, Insider claimed.
Kimbal and the woman did actually date from 2011 to 2012 and Insider claimed Epstein got a tour of a SpaceX facility in 2012 – SpaceX denied this.
DailyMail.com reached out to SpaceX and Tesla but got no response.
Twitter’s press office did not respond to requests for comment and instead sent an automated smiling poop emoji.
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