Tech magnate Elon Musk, communications strategist Steve Bannon, and influential businessman Peter Thiel are mentioned in meetings scheduled by the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to documents published Friday by Democratic congressmen.
The relationship of the three – all known for their very conservative positions and closeness to United States President Donald Trump – with Epstein was already known, although it is the first time documents that substantiate these connections have come to light.
The documents released by Democrats on the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform showed a possible trip by Elon Musk to Epstein’s island in December 2014.
In one calendar entry, a typed message read: “Reminder: Elon Musk to island Dec. 6 (is this still happening?),” according to the published document, which, however, did not mention whether the island referred to was Little Saint James Island, owned by Epstein in the Virgin Islands, and whether the trip actually occurred.
The document also showed that the late child sex offender also scheduled a breakfast in New York on Feb. 16, 2019, with Steve Bannon and a lunch with Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, and an influential venture capital manager, on Nov. 27, 2017.
The documents also showed plans for a breakfast with Bill Gates and other participants in 2014 and a flight manifest from Epstein’s private jet for a trip between New Jersey and Palm Beach, Florida, US, in which Prince Andrew of England appears as one of the passengers.
However, these documents do not bear any evidence of criminal conduct on the part of the aforementioned persons.
“It should be clear to every American that Jeffrey Epstein was friends with some of the most powerful and wealthiest men in the world,” Oversight Democrats spokesperson Sara Guerrero said in a statement.
The files released Friday were a part of the data that the Justice Department promised to share with Congress after weeks of intense upheaval last summer among sections of Trump supporters after the government said in July it would not share more information about Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019.
There has been a long speculation – often supported by Trump before his election – of a list of Epstein’s clients that included influential businessmen and politicians who were involved in the sexual abuse of minors.
