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Thomas Copeland BBC Confirm Stay journalist

Elon Musk’s title seems greater than 1,000 occasions within the newly launched Epstein information, however pretend emails claiming to be from the world’s wealthiest man have additionally gathered tens of hundreds of thousands of views on-line.

One pretend electronic mail seems to indicate Musk, who's the CEO of automotive producer Tesla and aerospace agency SpaceX, asking Epstein about plans for an “epic island trip” and a celebration with “women”.

The fictional trade of emails then seems to indicate Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's former affiliate and herself a convicted intercourse offender, telling Musk that Epstein was “considering of winding down“ his island “operation”.

This electronic mail doesn't seem within the newly launched paperwork.

Reverse picture searches point out the image was first shared on X in a put up seen greater than 11 million occasions. The account which shared it later admitted in a follow-up put up that the emails had been pretend.

<img alt="Screenshot of a fake email exchange. The first chronological email reads: “FROM: Elon Musk TO: Jeff E jeevacation@gmail.com. SUBJECT: epic island vacation. Hi Jeff! I was thinking of flying down for an epic vacation.. told me you were planning a party. (girls FTW!) I cleared my calendar. What are the details? Thank you good sir. -E”. The second reads: FROM: "jeevacation@gmail.com" jeevacation@gmail.com". TO: G (redacted) SUBJECT: FWD: epic island vacation. “deal withthis. thanyou”. Third email reads: ““FROM: G (redacted) TO: Elon Musk. SUBJECT: RE: FWD: epic island vacation I'm so sorry, Elon! You just missed J E. He actually told me he was thinking of winding down the entire Little St. James operation. Bummer! If it starts up again we'll be sure to let you know.”" src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/640/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2026/2/2/e7e292bc-d10c-4514-9406-e100cc1a88c9.png.webp" srcset="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/240/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2026/2/2/e7e292bc-d10c-4514-9406-e100cc1a88c9.png.webp 240w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/320/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2026/2/2/e7e292bc-d10c-4514-9406-e100cc1a88c9.png.webp 320w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/480/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2026/2/2/e7e292bc-d10c-4514-9406-e100cc1a88c9.png.webp 480w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/624/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2026/2/2/e7e292bc-d10c-4514-9406-e100cc1a88c9.png.webp 624w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/800/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2026/2/2/e7e292bc-d10c-4514-9406-e100cc1a88c9.png.webp 800w" width="1600" height="1140" class="ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950"/> The paperwork launched by US authorities do present Musk discussing travelling to Epstein’s island a number of occasions.

In November 2012 Musk requested Epstein: "What day/evening would be the wildest celebration in your island?” and on Christmas Day of that 12 months Musk inquired whether or not the financier had any events deliberate as a result of he must "let unfastened".

Additional emails in 2013 present the pair planning a go to to the island however there is no such thing as a proof it ever happened. Musk has by no means been accused of any wrongdoing and has beforehand mentioned he declined an invite to go there.

Musk mentioned in an X put up on Saturday that he was "properly conscious that some electronic mail correspondence with [Epstein] may very well be misinterpreted and utilized by detractors to smear my title".

He added: "I do not care about that, however what I do care about is that we not less than try to prosecute those that dedicated severe crimes with Epstein, particularly relating to heinous exploitation of underage women."