Elon Musk has finally addressed reports that his name is included in a newly released batch of Epstein files.

Sharing a story from U.K. outlet Sky News, which ran with the simple headline “Elon Musk and Prince Andrew Named in the Latest Epstein Files Release,” the Tesla CEO fired off an enraged tweet.

“Shame on Sky News for this utterly misleading headline,” Musk wrote. “Anyone pushing this false narrative deserves complete contempt.”

“Epstein tried to get me to go to his island and I REFUSED,” Musk continued, “yet they name me even before Prince Andrew, who did visit.”

The “false narrative” in question is presumably Sky’s decision to float Musk’s name ahead of Andrew’s; the Daily Beast has reached out to Musk’s representatives for further clarification.

Musk’s name does indeed appear in the latest batch of documents released by Democrats on the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

“Reminder: Elon Musk to island Dec. 6 (is this still happening?)” reads a note found in a 2014 diary of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The revelation comes from a fresh haul of previously unreleased material pertaining to the Epstein investigation, which has continued to dog the Trump administration.

Musk has previously said that he was invited to Epstein’s compound on Little St. James in the Virgin Islands several times, but claims he turned down the offers.

In a statement to Vanity Fair in 2019, just days after Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges, Musk confirmed that he had visited the disgraced financier’s Manhattan townhouse for about 30 minutes several years previously, but that “Epstein is obviously a creep.” He added, “He tried repeatedly to get me to visit his island. I declined.”

In an interview with the Department of Justice in August, British socialite and longtime Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking, said she first met Musk in 2010 or 2011, during a multi-day stay on a Caribbean island for Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s birthday.

She also said she later saw Musk at an Oscars event, seemingly referring to a Vanity Fair Oscars party on March 2, 2014, where she and Musk were photographed together. The aspiring trillionaire has previously explained that image by saying he did not know Maxwell and that she had “photobombed” him.

Maxwell did not have any knowledge of a deeper relationship between Epstein and Musk, but believed emails between the two men were uncovered during discovery.

In June, Musk, the former head of the Department of Government Efficiency, fell out with his buddy President Donald Trump in spectacular fashion. At the height of their spat, Musk wrote in a now-deleted tweet that Trump “is in the Epstein files.” He has since retracted the statement and apologized, saying that he “went too far.”

Others named in the latest round of Epstein file disclosures include Musk’s former colleague and right-wing billionaire, Peter Thiel, and Trump’s former chief strategist, Steve Bannon.

Further documents are expected to be released as Congress prepares to vote on a bipartisan bill that would require full disclosure in the Epstein case.

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    Fuck Elon, and all the rest of those MAGA psychopaths. He went there, they all went there, they all raped little girls, and now they’re all lying about it.

    I’m safe, because I never went there, so I want it all released. The ONLY reason you wouldn’t want them released is because you or a friend is in them.

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    So, he admits he knew about the island?

    Even if he said he didn’t go, doesn’t that make him an accomplice at least?

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    Musk pulled his dick out in front of a woman and then said he would buy her a horse if she didn’t tell anyone.

    So we know for a fact that he’s willing to commit sex crimes and then manipulate people into staying quiet.

    Musk could rape on a plane without having to go to the island.

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      The horse thing is even worse when you realise Musk was trying to offload the horses because they had relatively little value and it was costing him more to keep the horse than it was worth. He smushed a bunch of ranches together and he purchased a few of them lock, stock and barrel to get the deal done, this included some low value horses that he would have been stuck with costing him money.

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      This is why products and priced how they are.

      So people richer than you can use that money to abuse and manipulate women.

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    “I didn’t visit his island” has the same vibes as “I didn’t inhale” as far as denials go.

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      I’m a little less sure. I’m starting to have some (to me) obvious things click in on this.

      The one thing I’ve had a hard time with, even recognizing this was probably part-sex-trafficking-brothel and part blackmail-generator is why these people would do this knowing that nothing is ever truly secret, and that it’s becoming increasingly impossible for anything to be truly secret with the continuous onward march of technology.

      DNA alone presents multiple possibilities for how even a victim of a ring such as this could easily have blown the whistle which seems like an obvious deterrent. You can threaten people all you like, but then the cops DO show up you are still going to be in a cell like Epstein, with the same people wanting to kill you for what you know.

      And on Epsteins behalf - once you have sidled up to a member of the elite and dangled your pedo island at them and they say no - why on earth would it make sense for you to keep pushing someone (especially someone as wealthy and ostensibly powerful as Musk) over and over about it? The obvious response seems like it should be to hope they don’t immediately report you.

      So then how does it make sense? It’s all right here I think.

      “Reminder: Elon Musk to island Dec. 6 (is this still happening?)” reads a note found in a 2014 diary of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The revelation comes from a fresh haul of previously unreleased material pertaining to the Epstein investigation, which has continued to dog the Trump administration.

      Musk has previously said that he was invited to Epstein’s compound on Little St. James in the Virgin Islands several times, but claims he turned down the offers.

      In a statement to Vanity Fair in 2019, just days after Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges, Musk confirmed that he had visited the disgraced financier’s Manhattan townhouse for about 30 minutes several years previously, but that “Epstein is obviously a creep.” He added, “He tried repeatedly to get me to visit his island. I declined.”

      1. “C’mon out to the island man, it’s all bullshit for the suckers, they are all legal. But they look really young, and are all really hot. They are having the time of their lives getting to live like they are rich while fucking all these powerful people.”

      2. Mark accepts invitation.

      3. wild orgies ensue

      4. “Oh shit man, by the way, those were the real underage girls man. And we got that all on video. Yeah, even that part. That part too. And by the way, you clearly enjoyed it, so you might as well keep coming back.”

      5. One more powerful person pocketed.

      A person with nothing to fear in the files would be calling for their release. Which he has done.

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        why these people would do this knowing that nothing is ever truly secret, and that it’s becoming increasingly impossible for anything to be truly secret with the continuous onward march of technology.

        You have to remember that these aren’t the smartest people, and many of them truly believe they are untouchable (for good reason). I think a lot of it comes down to just pure hubris.

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        A person with nothing to fear in the files would be calling for their release.

        Or maybe a person with enough money to easily buy out any judge and jury in the world.

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          Maybe. Covering them up seems like it’s easier than damage control no matter what, but that kind of life is scifi to me.

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            Yeah, we can only speculate. Keep in mind, this is the guy who bought out Twitter because it was his favorite narrative platform.

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              He offered to buy it during an autistic tantrum at a stupid price then the courts and shareholders forced him to follow thru.

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        It’s entirely possible he never went to the island. That doesn’t make Elon Musk a good person, and he hasn’t exactly earned the benefit of doubt.

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    You don’t need to read this. We know who this guy is. He’s a pedophile just like all the others.

    Does anyone else remember how weird and out of left field it was that he called that diver that saved all those kids a “pedo”? Pepridge Farm remembers.

    It’s called projection, and it’s a kind of comically weird weakness evil people like him and Trump seem to suffer from.

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/15/elon-musk-british-diver-thai-cave-rescue-pedo-twitter

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      Your last paragraph has it completely wrong imo. I deeply believe most evil in the world is because of projection which we all do more or less.

      So it’s not they are evil and projection is their weakness. It’s they are evil because they project so much.

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    I honestly believe Musk this time. Even the evidence says “is this still happening?”

    That doesn’t excuse Musk for being the fascist who has caused the most damage to America. No one person is more responsible for enabling Trump, or intentionally controlling and pushing propaganda to the masses.

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      “is this still happening” may suggest that he said yes and that Epstein wasn’t sure if he’ll still come, maybe did you a scheduling conflict or something. The word “still” in that sentence is potentially saying a lot. We also have lots of other evidence showing that Musk is a creep so there’s an established pattern.

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        Yeah, “is this still happening?” doesn’t make sense unless Musk agreed to it previously.

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      Yeah, I don’t think he knew his name was in there, but this appears to be correspondence about him, not a detailed log of him coming and going or fifteen ways to get in touch with him or tons of video of them chumming it up or sending a wink wink little birthday card. I read the headline yesterday and my BS detector went off because he wouldn’t have said Trump was in the Epstein files if he was also in the Epstein files (in that way).

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      Yeah, between that and the fact that the photobombing is a standard tactic for these types of operations as well.

      Elon can still fuck off and die though.

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      Yeah but thats where the issue is, musk says he said no multiple times, but the note asks if this is still happening. If he said no then why are they not sure if it is still happening, also so far the only source for elon saying no is from elon himself

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        If calling someone a pedo is always projecting, you must be projecting right now.

        Obviously that’s not a sound argument.

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    “I never visited that island with its dated room decor, poor WiFi signal and awful water pressure in the showers after 8am.”

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    She also said she later saw Musk at an Oscars event, seemingly referring to a Vanity Fair Oscars party on March 2, 2014, where she and Musk were photographed together. The aspiring trillionaire has previously explained that image by saying he did not know Maxwell and that she had “photobombed” him.

    Didn’t Epstein also have a framed photo of him in his apartment?

    A Look Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan Lair

    Yes, he did

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    How this blackmail of politicians and the ivy league business class both in America and in the UK was allowed to ensnare our own politicians with no pushback from our domestic intelligence services is a scandal. Whomever ran the CIA from when they started this until now should be in fucking prison at best for presumably helping to compromise our leaders for ill foreign policy outcomes.

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      You have to wonder whether they allowed it to happen because they thought it could be useful.

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          Reminder that Robert Maxwell was a highly prized agent, to such an extent that when he “fell” off his yacht, the serving directors of all 6 major Israeli intelligence agencies attended his funeral.

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            The beginning of that dudes life was fucking crazy, he’d be a legendary figure in history if it weren’t for every other thing he did after WWII ended.

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    I hate elon. He’s an evil moron. With that said, I believe him. They are releasing fake info to take the heat off of Trump who is 100% guilty of going to the island and raping minors

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      I hate his guts, but his denial is plausible with the information we have so far. His word means nothing, however, so I simply don’t know at this point whether he went to the island or not.

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    but that “Epstein is obviously a creep.” He added, “He tried repeatedly to get me to visit his island. I declined.”

    🤔 Wait, so he made the connection and didn’t say anything?

    Even his lies make him look bad.

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      I’m not a fan of musk but if his statement is true he could’ve just not realised the flavour of creep he was and just didn’t want anything to do with his island harem, but at the time also not knowing they were kids so didn’t feel alarmed enough to speak up?

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        He donated a sizeable fraction of a billion to a guy whom he said is in the Epstein files, and the latter only after they had a falling-out. So yea, I won’t really believe his words on the matter.

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          That’s fair. I was just playing devil’s advocate. It wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if he turns out he’s a true diddler

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          To continue playing devil’s advocat: It could be he only found out about it during his DOGE activities.

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            Given that he first claimed Trump was in the files and then apologised, the only valid devil’s advocate is “maybe he thought he had some proof but later realized it wasn’t conclusive”. The other options involve either him trying to blackmail Trump on a very sensitive matter or withholding critical information to preserve his fortune at the face of threats by Trump, both of which are ethically way worse than the first option.

            Lets assume first option is true, which is not completely insane imo, after all his DOGE team did make many erroneous claims during their lifetime which were debunked later (and in many instances it was realized that they just had not analysed the situation carefully enough and jumped to conclusions). But then we are facing a man, whose impaired political judgement skills are proven time and time again, and yet who is trying to steer world wide politics towards his opinion by appearing at extremist right wing rallies. The net negative effect of this option is just as bad if he is going to make such grand claims on world issues based on his judgement skills.

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              Or he just realized Trump has much more (political) power than he and could damage him and his companies a lot.

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            He still did nothing about it until he was kicked out of the inner circle.

            He didn’t just learn about it, then exposed it. He learned about it, sat on the info, then released it when it felt like it would gain him something.

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        Look, he just had the chance to explain himself clearly. But he did not, even though he has years of public speaking experience. So instead, you are imagining what he could have said. That usually suggests you are getting manipulated.

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      So, I’ll preface this by saying that Elon is almost certainly a pedo anyway (the whole cave incident just seems 100% like projection already, before we even take the whole Epstein thing into account).

      But there are also credible reasons to believe Epstein was a Mossad asset, compromising pedos in powerful positions so they could be used when Israel needs something from them. I say this because Ghislaine Maxwell’s father has an interesting past and she’s the one that’s being accused of supplying him with the kids. Blackmail is also a famous Mossad tactic.

      Anyone who knew who he was wouldn’t have told on him because you could get suicided real quick that way. Or evidence of you being a pedo could surface even if you weren’t one.

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        I could believe it if he was a nobody, but Musk was very famous and rich already. He was being name-dropped in every show and movie, everything he did and said was plastered everywhere, and was having great publicity with “his” companies.

        If he got killed after going public back then, nothing would have been gained by the Maxwells except place a spotlight on themselves.

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          I’d say Maxwell is replaceable too, why else is she in jail right now?

          It’s just a conspiracy’s theory anyway, it could also be that Musk just didn’t go there THAT time and was a frequent visitor otherwise.