Epstein offers to send a helicopter to St Barts

From:: Jeffrey Epstein
Date:: October 2012 (reply to Musk's 20 Oct 2012 email; exact date not given)
To:: Elon Musk

Excerpt. Only this much of the email has been made public.

an easy but correct assumption… we will catch up either in ny, or i will send a heli to st bart for you, 45 minutes away.

About this email

Epstein confirms he will be on his island and offers to meet in New York or send a helicopter to St Barts for Musk.

Notes

Released by the U.S. Department of Justice on 2026-01-30 as part of the Epstein files (about 3 million pages). The text here is only what news outlets quoted from the DOJ PDF; the DOJ file itself sits behind an age-verification page and could not be retrieved, and '=' characters are encoding artifacts in the released files. Being named in the files is not evidence of wrongdoing, and no record of Musk actually visiting the island appears in the reporting. Musk's public response on X (31 Jan 2026, as quoted by TIME): "No one pushed harder than me to have the Epstein files released and I'm glad that has finally happened" and "I had very little correspondence with Epstein and declined repeated invitations to go to his island or fly on his 'Lolita Express'"; NBC also quotes him: "I have never been to any Epstein parties ever and have many times call for the prosecution of those who committed crimes." Email sent TO Musk.

Where it came from

Government release; attribution widely reported.

Personal, outside & personal. Tags: epstein-files, st-barts

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