Elon Musk and Prince Andrew named in new Epstein recordsdata

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Billionaire Elon Musk and Prince Andrew are named in new recordsdata launched by Congressional Democrats that relate to the late convicted intercourse offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The recordsdata turned over to the Home Oversight Committee by the Jeffrey Epstein Property seem to point out that Musk had been invited to Epstein's island in December 2014.

Individually a manifest for a flight from New Jersey to Florida in Could 2000 names Prince Andrew among the many passengers.

Musk and Prince Andrew have been approached for remark.

Prince Andrew has beforehand strenuously denied any wrongdoing. Musk has beforehand been quoted as saying that Epstein had invited him to the island however he had declined.

The partial information are from the third batch of paperwork produced by the Jeffrey Epstein Property. Democrats on the Home Oversight Committee say they embrace cellphone message logs, copies of flight logs and manifests for aircrafts, copies of monetary ledgers and Epstein's day by day schedule.

Along with Musk and Prince Andrew, the recordsdata launched publicly additionally comprise the names of different distinguished figures together with web entrepreneur Peter Thiel and Steve Bannon, a former advisor to Donald Trump

One line within the information dated 6 December 2014 reads: "Reminder: Elon Musk to island Dec. 6 (is that this nonetheless occurring?)"

A flight manifest information that Prince Andrew was on a flight with Epstein and his affiliate Ghislaine Maxwell from Teterboro, New Jersey, to West Palm Seashore, Florida, on 12 Could 2000. Maxwell was convicted in 2021 of conspiring with Epstein to site visitors ladies for intercourse.

On 11 Could 2000, Buckingham Palace mentioned on its web site that Prince Andrew had flown to New York to attend a reception in New York for the Nationwide Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Kids. Andrew returned to the UK on 15 Could, a later entry mentioned.

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Within the recordsdata, there may be additionally an entry referring to a deliberate lunch with Peter Thiel in November 2017.

There's additionally an entry referring to a deliberate breakfast with Steve Bannon 17 February 2019.

The recordsdata additionally point out tentative plans for a breakfast occasion with Microsoft founder Invoice Gates in December 2014. In 2022 Gates instructed the BBC that assembly Jeffrey Epstein had been a "mistake".

It's not instructed that these talked about within the recordsdata had been conscious of the alleged prison exercise for which Epstein was later arrested.

Epstein died by suicide in a New York jail cell in August 2019 whereas awaiting trial on intercourse trafficking expenses.

In 2008, he reached a plea cope with prosecutors after the dad and mom of a 14-year-old woman instructed police in Florida that Epstein had molested their daughter at his Palm Seashore house.

He was arrested once more in July 2019 on intercourse trafficking expenses.

Sara Guerrero, a spokesperson for the Democrats on the Oversight committee, urged Legal professional Common Pam Bondi to launch extra recordsdata associated to Epstein.

"It needs to be clear to each American that Jeffrey Epstein was pals with a few of the strongest and wealthiest males on this planet. Each new doc produced supplies new info as we work to convey justice for the survivors and victims," she mentioned.