It was the week of Kimbal Musk’s 40th birthday in September 2012, and invitations went out for his party that Saturday, for 7 p.m. at New York’s Four Seasons restaurant on East 57th Street.
As invitees learned the password to get in—“pussy riot”—via email, the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was scheming.
Epstein and an associate had hand-picked a woman he believed would interest Kimbal Musk; coordinated club reservations through an associate who promised “as many girls” as “needed;” and organized a lunch the following day at his Upper East Side Manhattan mansion for Kimbal, his older brother, Elon Musk, and Elon’s then-wife, Talulah Riley, according to dozens of Department of Justice emails released this month. (Kimbal Musk later apologized to Epstein for not attending the lunch, in another email released by the DOJ.)
“I told him that you are coming with [Sarah] and that [Kimbal] might want to ditch his ex/or current to be,” Boris Nikolic, a close associate and who Epstein describes as a “good friend”in an email, reported in an email to Epstein ahead of the party.
“So please prepare [Sarah],” Nikolic added, with a winking emoji. (While many of the victim’s names were not entirely redacted in the Department of Justice’s initial release of thousands of names, Fortune is changing the names of the women mentioned in this story in an effort to protect their identities.)
