Elon Musk has finally addressed reports that his name is included in a newly released batch of Epstein files.

Sharing a story from U.K. outlet Sky News, which ran with the simple headline “Elon Musk and Prince Andrew Named in the Latest Epstein Files Release,” the Tesla CEO fired off an enraged tweet.

“Shame on Sky News for this utterly misleading headline,” Musk wrote. “Anyone pushing this false narrative deserves complete contempt.”

“Epstein tried to get me to go to his island and I REFUSED,” Musk continued, “yet they name me even before Prince Andrew, who did visit.”

The “false narrative” in question is presumably Sky’s decision to float Musk’s name ahead of Andrew’s; the Daily Beast has reached out to Musk’s representatives for further clarification.

Musk’s name does indeed appear in the latest batch of documents released by Democrats on the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

“Reminder: Elon Musk to island Dec. 6 (is this still happening?)” reads a note found in a 2014 diary of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The revelation comes from a fresh haul of previously unreleased material pertaining to the Epstein investigation, which has continued to dog the Trump administration.

Musk has previously said that he was invited to Epstein’s compound on Little St. James in the Virgin Islands several times, but claims he turned down the offers.

In a statement to Vanity Fair in 2019, just days after Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges, Musk confirmed that he had visited the disgraced financier’s Manhattan townhouse for about 30 minutes several years previously, but that “Epstein is obviously a creep.” He added, “He tried repeatedly to get me to visit his island. I declined.”

In an interview with the Department of Justice in August, British socialite and longtime Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking, said she first met Musk in 2010 or 2011, during a multi-day stay on a Caribbean island for Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s birthday.

She also said she later saw Musk at an Oscars event, seemingly referring to a Vanity Fair Oscars party on March 2, 2014, where she and Musk were photographed together. The aspiring trillionaire has previously explained that image by saying he did not know Maxwell and that she had “photobombed” him.

Maxwell did not have any knowledge of a deeper relationship between Epstein and Musk, but believed emails between the two men were uncovered during discovery.

In June, Musk, the former head of the Department of Government Efficiency, fell out with his buddy President Donald Trump in spectacular fashion. At the height of their spat, Musk wrote in a now-deleted tweet that Trump “is in the Epstein files.” He has since retracted the statement and apologized, saying that he “went too far.”

Others named in the latest round of Epstein file disclosures include Musk’s former colleague and right-wing billionaire, Peter Thiel, and Trump’s former chief strategist, Steve Bannon.

Further documents are expected to be released as Congress prepares to vote on a bipartisan bill that would require full disclosure in the Epstein case.

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    Maybe he didn’t go that time, but with the wording it looks like it could’ve been a scheduling issue. So, until all the files are public and due to the handling, people listed will just be in gray areas of assumption.

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      A single journalist with Balls just needs to ask Elon:

      “WHY didn’t you go to the island when asked?”

      Because Elon is a moron, and there’s not a single logical answer in existence that doesn’t imply his guilt.

      It’s either: scheduling issue (Guilty)

      OR what he’s implying:

      He didn’t go because he knew what was happening there. (Which also means he’s Guilty)

      If Elon knew what was happening there and did nothing, he’s not only just as guilty, but admitting to turning a blind eye to it.

      I swear all the world’s wealthiest individuals are complete idiots.

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        By 2014 Epstein had been arrested so I knew what was going on there. Does that make me complicit in his crimes as well or does it mean I followed the news?

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        If Elon knew what was happening there and did nothing, he’s not only just as guilty, but admitting to turning a blind eye to it.

        Look, on general principle I agree with you, but Elon might’ve realized that Epstein is a Mossad asset. I’d be turning a blind eye too if it meant not being assassinated.

        Or more likely, it was indeed a scheduling issue lol

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    The REAL reason why Elon is in the Epstein files is because he fucks children, just like his dad and just like his daddy Donny.

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    He didn’t go because they wouldn’t let him impregnate all the girls there, since that’s his only fetish.

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    The real problem is that he didn’t address this, or Epstein, sooner. None of them did.

    It’s all reactionary and the little people have to find out for themselves how they’ve been funneling billions of dollars to child rapists.

    If you’re not seeing more and more every day to convince you why the average idiot shouldn’t be taken seriously, then you can’t be helped.

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    but that “Epstein is obviously a creep.” He added, “He tried repeatedly to get me to visit his island. I declined.”

    🤔 Wait, so he made the connection and didn’t say anything?

    Even his lies make him look bad.

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      So, I’ll preface this by saying that Elon is almost certainly a pedo anyway (the whole cave incident just seems 100% like projection already, before we even take the whole Epstein thing into account).

      But there are also credible reasons to believe Epstein was a Mossad asset, compromising pedos in powerful positions so they could be used when Israel needs something from them. I say this because Ghislaine Maxwell’s father has an interesting past and she’s the one that’s being accused of supplying him with the kids. Blackmail is also a famous Mossad tactic.

      Anyone who knew who he was wouldn’t have told on him because you could get suicided real quick that way. Or evidence of you being a pedo could surface even if you weren’t.

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      I’m not a fan of musk but if his statement is true he could’ve just not realised the flavour of creep he was and just didn’t want anything to do with his island harem, but at the time also not knowing they were kids so didn’t feel alarmed enough to speak up?

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        Look, he just had the chance to explain himself clearly. But he did not, even though he has years of public speaking experience. So instead, you are imagining what he could have said. That usually suggests you are getting manipulated.

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        He donated a sizeable fraction of a billion to a guy whom he said is in the Epstein files, and the latter only after they had a falling-out. So yea, I won’t really believe his words on the matter.

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          That’s fair. I was just playing devil’s advocate. It wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if he turns out he’s a true diddler

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          To continue playing devil’s advocat: It could be he only found out about it during his DOGE activities.

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            He still did nothing about it until he was kicked him out of the inner circle.

            He didn’t just learn about it, then exposed it. He learned about it, sat on the info, then released it when it felt like it would gain him something.

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      Remember when he called that cave diver a pedo?

      Yeah every accusation from the right is a confession still holding true!

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    Who cares about what some South African did? What about Trump, the current President of the United States of America? What did he do? Maybe send some troops to another american city. That’ll have us looking over there and we’ll all forget about the Degenerate in Chief. Right? Wrong. Trump knows it’s almost time to pay the piper. I worry about the fallout of that.

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    Who got trapped on the island against their will? Takeout Child Brides Who got pimped to the riches in search of a thrill Takeout Child Brides What Donald J Trump prefered over booze? Takeout Child Brides What a service Elon claims that he did refuse? Takeout Child Brides

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    NGL, Musk is obviously sexually repressed in some seriously weird ways, and I kinda believe he wouldn’t go there because of that. Didn’t he like in-vitro inseminate all of his baby mommas?

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    Plenty of people weren’t invited to Epstein’s child rape island. Why did he think you would enjoy it there, Elon?

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      I’m not a huge fan of this logic.

      Epstein wanted an in with the rich and powerful. He collected big name contacts as trophies.

      A fair question could be why he would have thought it safe to invite Musk, but just like with Weinstein, it seems a shit load of people knew and did nothing about it so it seems like he could generally assume the celebrities can be safely invited.