Elon Musk and Prince Andrew Named in Newly Released Epstein Files

Bil­lion­aire Elon Musk and Prince Andrew have been named in new­ly released files relat­ed to the late con­vict­ed sex offend­er Jef­frey Epstein. The doc­u­ments, hand­ed over to the House Over­sight Com­mit­tee by the Epstein Estate, include flight logs, finan­cial records, phone mes­sages, and Epstein’s dai­ly sched­ule.

Accord­ing to the records, Musk was not­ed in a Decem­ber 2014 entry regard­ing a planned vis­it to Epstein’s pri­vate island. Musk has pre­vi­ous­ly stat­ed that he declined Epstein’s invi­ta­tion.

Prince Andrew is list­ed on a flight man­i­fest from May 2000 trav­el­ing from Teter­boro, New Jer­sey, to West Palm Beach, Flori­da, along­side Epstein and Ghis­laine Maxwell, who was con­vict­ed in 2021 for con­spir­ing with Epstein to traf­fic girls for sex. A redact­ed ledger also ref­er­ences pay­ments for mas­sages to “Andrew” in Feb­ru­ary and May 2000, though it is unclear if this refers to Prince Andrew. Palace records show that he was trav­el­ing in the U.S. dur­ing that peri­od for offi­cial engage­ments. Prince Andrew has repeat­ed­ly denied any wrong­do­ing.

Oth­er promi­nent fig­ures men­tioned in the doc­u­ments include Peter Thiel, Steve Ban­non, and Bill Gates. The files note planned meet­ings, includ­ing a Novem­ber 2017 lunch with Thiel, a Feb­ru­ary 2019 break­fast with Ban­non, and a Decem­ber 2014 break­fast with Gates. Gates has pre­vi­ous­ly acknowl­edged that meet­ing Epstein was a “mis­take.”

The House Over­sight Com­mit­tee stressed that the inclu­sion of names in these records does not indi­cate knowl­edge of or involve­ment in Epstein’s crim­i­nal activ­i­ties.

Epstein, who had pre­vi­ous­ly plead­ed guilty in 2008 to charges relat­ed to the sex­u­al abuse of a minor, died by sui­cide in a New York jail cell in August 2019 while await­ing tri­al on sex traf­fick­ing charges.

Sara Guer­rero, spokes­woman for the Demo­c­ra­t­ic mem­bers of the com­mit­tee, urged fur­ther trans­paren­cy from the Jus­tice Depart­ment:

“Every new doc­u­ment pro­duced pro­vides new infor­ma­tion as we work to bring jus­tice for the sur­vivors and vic­tims.”

Repub­li­can mem­bers crit­i­cized the release as polit­i­cal­ly moti­vat­ed but indi­cat­ed they would pro­vide the full set of doc­u­ments soon.