The ghost of Epstein continues to linger over the pinnacle of the American power pyramid.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday that it had completed its review of documents related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and released the largest batch of email archives to date. These files not only shed new light on Epstein's extensive connections with global elites but have also thrust contemporary icons like Bill Gates and Elon Musk back into the media spotlight.
Among the most explosive content is an email allegedly sent by Epstein to himself, claiming that Bill Gates, after engaging in sexual relations with a "Russian girl," attempted to conceal a sexually transmitted disease and asked Epstein for help in obtaining antibiotics to be secretly administered to his wife.
The email states: "You then, with tears, begged me to delete the emails about your STD, and asked me to provide antibiotics so you could secretly give them to Melinda to take..."
If true, this is not merely a private scandal but touches upon the dangerous intersection of power, money, and morality.
A spokesperson for Bill Gates swiftly denied the allegations, calling the claims "absurd and completely untrue," and suggested it was an attempt by Epstein to "frame and smear" following a deterioration in their relationship. In fact, the relationship between Gates and Epstein is not a new topic. Over the past few years, Gates himself has repeatedly acknowledged meeting with Epstein and publicly stated that "it was a mistake."
Musk: Dragged Again into the Epstein Narrative Apart from Gates, Elon Musk's name also appears multiple times in the newly released emails. The files indicate that between 2012 and 2013, Musk communicated directly with Epstein regarding party and visit arrangements for Saint Barthélemy Island. Epstein even mentioned the island's "male-to-female ratio" in a reply, hinting that it might cause discomfort to Musk's wife at the time.
Musk's response was characteristically forceful. He had previously stated on platform X that Epstein had tried to invite him to the private island, but he "explicitly refused," calling any contrary accounts a "false narrative." However, the issue is that email records show the two did maintain contact, and this occurred after Epstein's 2008 guilty plea. This brings the "boundary question" of Musk's relationship with Epstein under renewed and intensified scrutiny.
More notably, the files also reveal that Musk's brother, Kimbal Musk, a board member of Tesla Motors, had multiple interactions with Epstein and his associates.
From "Nothing New" to "Highly Suggestive" Document Release The U.S. Department of Justice emphasized that this document release does not contain a wealth of new facts, particularly concerning Epstein's relationship with Trump. However, the real change lies not in "whether there are new names," but in the "density of details" and the "horizontal connections within the power structure."
These emails depict not isolated private interactions, but a social network spanning politics, technology, finance, and academia—a system of relationships that continued to operate even after Epstein had been imprisoned for sex crimes in 2008.
Regardless of whether these allegations ultimately hold, they reveal at least one fact: Epstein long operated in the gray areas of the elite class, playing the role of a "middleman" and "problem solver."
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