Elon Emails

Epstein tells Musk that Ehud Barak wants to talk

From:
Jeffrey Epstein
Date:
2013 (Fortune gives only the year)
To:
Elon Musk

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

is very clever about many things that you have in the past shown interest in, when you are next on my coast let me know.

About this email

Epstein tells Musk that former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, who wanted to discuss bringing Tesla to Israel, is worth meeting.

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; the quoted fragment begins mid-sentence (its subject is Ehud Barak). Musk's reply about Tesla being production constrained is a separate entry.

Where it came from

Government release; attribution single-source.

Personal, outside & personal. Tags: epstein-files, israel, ehud-barak

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