Epstein: 'sorry we didn't connect' — invites Musk to lunch via St Thomas

From:: Jeffrey Epstein
Date:: January 1, 2013 (Year uncertain: the New York Post gives 'Jan. 1' in a passage about the December 2013 exchange (implying 2014), while TIME dates Musk's next-day reply to 2 Jan 2013)
To:: Elon Musk

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

sorry we didn't connect, why don't you consider clearing customs into the states in st thomas, come for lunch with the wife[?]

About this email

Epstein suggests Musk clear customs in St Thomas and come for lunch with his wife; Musk replied the next day that logistics would not work.

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. Bracketed question mark is the New York Post's. Filed under 2013 to sit with Musk's reply as dated by TIME; see the date conflict noted on that entry.

Where it came from

Government release; attribution single-source.

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