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“Reminder: Elon Musk to island Dec. 6 (is this still happening?).”
That’s a calendar entry from freshly released Jeffrey Epstein files purportedly inviting the billionaire to Epstein’s private island in December 2014.
In documents released by US Democrats on the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Musk was named in the daily schedules of the late financier and sex offender Epstein.
Musk previously said he was invited to Epstein’s compound on Little St James island in the US Virgin Islands on several occasions but declined.
The documents also name Britain’s Prince Andrew in a flight manifest on Epstein’s private jet from New Jersey to Palm Beach, Florida, in May 2000.
In 2022, Andrew settled a lawsuit brought by the late Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s most prominent accusers.
In her claim, Giuffre accused Andrew of sexually abusing her when she was a teenager. Andrew has denied wrongdoing and said he regrets his past association with Epstein.
The files also reveal calendar entries for a breakfast with former Trump strategist Steve Bannon in February 2019, and a lunch with PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel in November 2017.
There are no accusations of any wrongdoing by Musk, Thiel, Bannon or Andrew in the documents released on Friday.
The daily calendars do not indicate if the meetings actually took place.
Little Saint James Island was owned by Epstein from 1998 until he died in 2019. Source: Getty / Miami Herald/TNS
A spokesperson for Thiel and lawyers who have represented Bannon and Andrew did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In reply to a post on X referencing a news story about the documents, Musk wrote: “This is false.”
The tech billionaire has previously weaponised Epstein files against political figures.
In July, he accused Bannon of being in the Epstein files — just a month after he accused US President Donald Trump of being named in the Epstein files, saying “that is the real reason they have not been made public”.
He later deleted the post and said he “went too far” about Trump.
Trump has been facing criticism in recent months from his conservative base and congressional Democrats over his administration’s handling of the Epstein case.
The US justice department in July said it would not make public files from its sex trafficking investigation into Epstein, reneging on earlier promises from Trump and his allies to do so.
The Democrat oversight committee said the documents showed Epstein was friends with “some of the most powerful and wealthiest men in the world,” and called on the department to release all documents from its probe.
“Every new document produced provides new information as we work to bring justice for the survivors and victims. Oversight Democrats will not stop until we identify everyone complicit in Epstein’s heinous crimes,” Sara Guerrero, the committee spokesperson, said.
In a congressional testimony earlier this month, FBI Director Kash Patel said there was no credible information that Epstein trafficked women and underage girls to anyone but himself.
Epstein died by suicide in 2019 in jail while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, to which he had pleaded not guilty.
— With additional reporting by Reuters.
