Musk: 'Thanks.' after Epstein offers helicopter

From:: Elon Musk
Date:: December 2013 (between 15 and 30 Dec 2013; exact date not given)
To:: Jeffrey Epstein
Subject:: Christmas and New Years

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

Thanks.

About this email

Musk's one-word reply after Epstein wrote that he would send a helicopter for him.

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."

Where it came from

Government release; attribution single-source.

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

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