From Elon Musk to the previous Prince Andrew, a who’s who of highly effective males are named in Epstein information | EUROtoday

From tech titans to Wall Street energy brokers and British royalty, a who’s who of highly effective males make appearances within the big trove of paperwork launched Friday by the Justice Department in reference to its investigations of Jeffrey Epstein.

Many have denied having shut ties to the late financier, or at the least having something to do together with his alleged sexual abuse of ladies and younger girls that led to his arrest on intercourse trafficking expenses.

None have been charged with a criminal offense related to the investigation. Epstein killed himself in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019. Yet a few of them maintained friendships with Epstein, or developed them anew, even after he grew to become often known as a predator of younger women and registered intercourse offender.

Here’s a primer on among the notable names within the Epstein information:

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

The man previously often known as Britain’s Prince Andrew has lengthy been dogged by questions on his relationship with Epstein, together with allegations from the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre that she was trafficked by Epstein and instructed to have intercourse with Mountbatten-Windsor when she was 17.

The former prince has repeatedly denied that it occurred, however his brother, King Charles III, nonetheless stripped him of his royal titles late final yr, together with the proper to be known as a prince and the Duke of York.

Mountbatten-Windsor’s identify seems at the least a number of hundred instances in Friday’s doc launch, together with in Epstein’s personal emails.

Among the correspondence is an invite for Epstein to dine at Buckingham Palace, Epstein’s supply to introduce Mountbatten-Windsor to a 26-year-old Russian girl, and pictures that seem to indicate Mountbatten-Windsor kneeling over an unidentified girl mendacity on the ground.

Elon Musk

The billionaire Tesla founder turns up at the least a number of instances in Friday’s doc launch, notably in electronic mail exchanges in 2012 and 2013 by which he mentioned visiting Epstein’s notorious Caribbean island compound.

But it’s not instantly clear if the island visits befell. Spokespersons for Musk’s firms, Tesla and X, didn’t reply to emails looking for remark Friday or Saturday.

Musk has maintained that he repeatedly turned down the disgraced financier’s overtures. “Epstein tried to get me to go to his island and I REFUSED,” he posted on X in 2025.

Steven Table

The New York Giants co-owner is talked about greater than 400 instances within the information launched Friday. Correspondence between the 2 reveals Epstein provided to attach Tisch to quite a few girls through the years.

In one 2013 electronic mail change with the topic line “Ukrainian girl,” Epstein inspired Tisch to contact a selected girl, whose bodily magnificence he praised in crude phrases.

“Pro or civilian?” Tisch requested in reply.

Tisch, a scion of a strong New York household that based the Loews Corporation, has acknowledged realizing Epstein however denied ever going to his notorious Caribbean island.

“We had a brief association where we exchanged emails about adult women, and in addition, we discussed movies, philanthropy and investments,” mentioned Tisch, who additionally gained an Academy Award in 1994 for producing “Forrest Gump.” “As we all know now, he was a terrible person and someone I deeply regret associating with.”

Howard Lutnick

President Donald Trump’s commerce secretary visited Epstein’s personal Caribbean island together with his household on at the least one event, information launched Friday present.

That seems to contradict prior statements he’s made claiming he reduce ties with the disgraced financier, who he’s known as “gross,” a long time in the past.

But emails present Lutnick and his spouse accepted an invite to Little St. James within the U.S. Virgin Islands in December 2012 and deliberate to reach by yacht with their youngsters.

The former chairman of Newmark, a serious industrial actual property agency, additionally had drinks on one other event in 2011 with Epstein and corresponded with him concerning the building of a constructing throughout the road from each of their houses.

The Commerce Department, in an announcement, mentioned Lutnick had “limited interactions with Mr. Epstein in the presence of his wife and has never been accused of wrongdoing.”

Sergey Brin

The billionaire Google co-founder made plans to fulfill with Epstein and his longtime confidant Ghislaine Maxwell at his townhouse in New York years earlier than he was publicly accused of sexually abusing underage women, emails present.

In one change in 2003, Maxwell invited him to hitch her at a screening of the Renee Zellweger movie “Down with Love” in New York.

She adopted up a number of weeks later to ask him to a “happily casual and relaxed” dinner at Epstein’s home. Brin provided to deliver alongside Google’s then-CEO Eric Schmidt.

Spokespersons for Google didn’t instantly reply to an electronic mail looking for remark Saturday.

Steve Bannon

The one-time adviser to Trump exchanged lots of of pleasant texts with Epstein, some despatched months earlier than his 2019 arrest and jailhouse suicide.

The two mentioned politics, journey and a documentary Bannon was mentioned to be planning that will assist salvage Epstein’s fame.

One 2018 change, for instance, targeted on Trump’s threats on the time to oust Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. In a 2019 message, Bannon requested Epstein if he might provide his aircraft to choose him up in Rome.

Bannon hasn’t responded to emails looking for remark.

Miroslav Lajcak

A nationwide safety adviser to the Slovakian prime minister, Lajcak resigned Saturday after his previous communications with Epstein appeared in Friday’s doc launch.

Opposition events and a nationalist associate in Fico’s governing coalition had known as for him to step down.

Lajcak, a former Slovak international minister and a onetime president of the U.N. General Assembly, has not been accused of any wrongdoing, however was photographed assembly with Epstein within the years between his preliminary launch from jail and his subsequent indictment in 2019 on intercourse trafficking expenses.

He mentioned his correspondence with Epstein have been a part of his diplomatic duties.

Richard Branson

Richard Branson, the billionaire founding father of Virgin Group Limited, invited Epstein to his personal island in 2013, telling him in an electronic mail: “Any time you’re in the area would love to see you. As long as you bring your harem!”

Besides discussing Epstein visiting Branson’s Necker Island, within the British Virgin Islands, the 2 exchanged messages about philanthropy, Epstein’s concepts for a “disruptive” monetary system and a “social good currency.”

In one email, in 2011, Epstein said he offered Branson’s staff the use of his helicopter to transport an accident victim in the Virgin Islands.

In a Sept. 11, 2013 correspondence, Branson suggested Epstein could boost his public image if he could get Bill Gates to say “you’ve been a brilliant adviser to him, that you slipped up many years ago by sleeping with a 17 1/2 year old woman and were punished for it, that you’ve more than learnt your lesson and have done nothing that’s against the law since.”

A Branson spokesperson informed the British information outlet the Independent that Branson’s “harem” remark referred to grownup members of Epstein’s workers.

Branson later determined to sever ties with Epstein, the spokesperson mentioned, after studying extra concerning the “serious allegations” that had been made towards him.

“Had they had the full picture and information, there would have been no contact whatsoever,” the spokesperson mentioned.

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Associated Press reporters from all over the world contributed to this story.