Epstein: 'Probably after Xmas day ... Glad you are coming'

From:: Jeffrey Epstein
Date:: November 2, 2012 (reply in the 2 Nov 2012 exchange; Fortune gives no separate date)
To:: Elon Musk

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

Probably after Xmas day. Any day, lets choose a sunny one [...] Glad you are coming.

About this email

Epstein answers Musk's question about when to visit during Christmas week 2012.

Notes

Released by the U.S. Department of Justice on 2026-01-30 as part of the Epstein files. The text here is only what news outlets quoted from the DOJ PDFs; the DOJ files sit behind an age-verification page and could not be retrieved. Being named in the files is not evidence of wrongdoing. Musk's public response on X (31 Jan 2026): "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." Email sent TO Musk. Fortune quotes the two fragments separately.

Where it came from

Government release; attribution widely reported.

Personal, outside & personal. Tags: epstein-files, island-invitation

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