“I had very little correspondence with Epstein and declined repeated invitations to go to his island or fly on his ‘Lolita Express,’ but was well aware that some email correspondence with him could be misinterpreted and used by detractors to smear my name,” Musk said in a post on X on Saturday. “I don’t care about that, but what I do care about is that we at least attempt to prosecute those who committed serious crimes with Epstein, especially regarding heinous exploitation of underage girls.” Musk did not immediately respond to a request for comment from WIRED.
Larry Page (314 Files), Sergey Brin (294 Files)
The Google cofounders appear in the Epstein files roughly the same number of times, and both have been linked to Epstein previously. Page and Brin were both issued subpoenas in 2023 related to a civil lawsuit by the US Virgin Islands against JP Morgan Chase tied to Epstein’s sex trafficking crimes. In court documents related to Virginia Giuffre’s defamation lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell, which were unsealed in 2024, Epstein victim Sarah Ransome alleged that she had met Brin and his fiancée, Anne Wojcicki, prior to their 2007 wedding, “when they visited the island for the day.”
The recently released DOJ files provide a much fuller picture of their relationships with Epstein, particularly for Brin. An email exchange in April 2003 with Ghislaine Maxwell suggests that Brin had dinner at Epstein’s New York townhouse that month. (“Dinners at Jeffrey’s are always happily casual and relaxed,” Maxwell wrote.) In it, Brin offered to invite “our CEO Eric,” referring to Google’s then CEO Eric Schmidt, though he says that Schmidt’s “schedule will probably be a bit more packed,” and there is no indication Schmidt attended.
Page also appears to have dined with Epstein. “David Gergen is asking who was at the lunch or dinner years ago when he came=to your house and the Google guys were there (Larry Page and Sergey Brin),” Groff wrote to Epstein in 2015. There are references in the files, too, to purported business dealings between Page and Epstein. “Larry Page’s chief pilot, Tony contacted Nicolas today and is interested ‘again’ using your Bell 407 for the St. Barts operation,” says an email to Epstein from a redacted address sent on December 23, 2010, followed by a breakdown of the potential associated fees. The Bell 407 is a type of helicopter; emails show that an entity called “Air Ghislaine Inc” purchased one on October 30, 2002. The “St. Barts operation” appears to be a visit; Epstein was notified in an email later that same day that “Larry Page has changed his mind and will use boat to st barts.”
On another occasion, Epstein emailed a link to a news story about Google testing “internet-broadcasting drones” in New Mexico to a redacted address. “You can tell larry page that they can use my runway =s most of this land is my ranch,” he wrote. There’s no indication that this happened. Alphabet did not immediately respond to a request for comment from WIRED. Anne Wojcicki did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Mark Zuckerberg (282 Files), Jeff Bezos (196 Files), Eric Schmidt (193 Files)
While Epstein appeared to email primarily about Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg rather than with him, the files do indicate at least one occasion when the two met. They were both on an invite list emailed by Reid Hoffman’s assistant for a dinner on August 2, 2015, with neuroscientist Ed Boyden. Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Joi Ito were among the other invitees. Hoffman followed up a few days later with an email to Zuckerberg and Epstein with the subject line “intros.” “Jeffrey, Zuck,” the message reads, “email connections from the Ed Boyden dinner — so that convo can continue.”
There’s no indication that Zuckerberg ever responded. And otherwise, Epstein appears to have spent far more time emailing about Zuckerberg—his marriage to Priscilla Chan, whether he deserved a Nobel Peace Prize—than with him.
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