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Kimbal Musk's Epstein Emails Are Worse Than You Think · Elon Musk Podcast

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  Newly released DOJ emails show Kimball Musk was a Tesla board
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  member in Elon Musk's rather exchange friendly correspondence
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  with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for years after
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  Epstein's twenty O 8 guilty plea.
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  Of the emails, part of more than 3,000,000 pages released under
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  the Epstein Files Transparency Act on January 30th, revealed
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  that Epstein and his associate Boris Nikolic connected Kimball
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  with at least two women, tracked a woman's travel schedule
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  alongside Kimball's movements, and maintain a relationship that
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  went far beyond any newsletter subscription.
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  Now, Kimble posted a statement on X on February 9th claiming he
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  met Epstein once at a New York office in blaming the volume of
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  females on a mass newsletter. So what did the actual e-mail
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  say? And Can 2 setting tests.
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  The board members survive these Epstein files, and one of the
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  most uncomfortable details involves Epstein receiving a
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  woman's full itinerary with Kimball's name mentioned five
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  times over several months. We're going to walk through the
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  specific emails between Kimball, Epstein, and Nicolek, Examine
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  how Epstein appeared to engineer a six month romantic
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  relationship. Look at Kimball's public defense
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  and where it falls apart and breakdown what all of this means
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  for Tesla's board. It's $1.57 trillion market cap.
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  Now Kimball Musk, Elon Musk's brother, appears in over 300
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  documents in the latest Epstein file release.
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  The Boulder Reporting Lab reviewed the records and found
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  contact between Musk and Epstein spanning from 2012 to at least
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  2015 period. That overlaps Kimball's romantic
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  a moment with women connected to Epstein's social circle.
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  That timeline is the foundation for everything that follows.
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  The emails began the fall of 2012, around Kibble's 40th
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  birthday. Nicolae, A biotech venture
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  capitalist and former advisor to Bill Gates, emailed Epstein on
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  September 23rd to say he had spoken with Kimball, who told
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  him Epstein was meeting Elon for lunch that day.
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  And Nicolae replied that Kimball had told Elon great stuff about
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  Elon or about Epstein, you know. Shortly before the birthday,
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  Nicolet told Epstein that Kimball and Elon would go out
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  that night with close friends so that Epstein would join and
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  bring a woman named Jennifer Nicolex.
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  Exact words Epstein were to please prepare her now.
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  The day after the birthday, Kimball emailed Nicolet to say
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  he had a fun time and invited Epstein's friends to a black tie
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  event at The Four Seasons. The following night, Five days
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  after the party, Kimball wrote to Epstein directly.
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  Sorry you missed the party. I'll be in town next Friday.
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  I'd love to meet up if you're in town now.
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  Epstein's assistant, Leslie Groff, then sent scheduling
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  emails confirming Kimball for lunch at Epstein's house on
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  Sunday at 11:30. Then at October 7th, Kimball
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  emailed Epstein directly and said he would love to meet up
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  again. On October 7th, 2012, Kimball
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  sent a group e-mail that Epstein that collect.
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  Thank you them both for connecting him with Jennifer
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  now. Mcclick replied with a warning.
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  Epstein gets upset when someone mistreats his girls slash
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  friends. Kimball responded that the
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  message was received wide and clear with a waking emoji.
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  He added that he was very happy with his time with Jennifer and
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  called her great. Epstein also had a Google
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  Calendar entry around this period.
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  They both cut Kimba Musk birthday Four Seasons, which
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  lined up with a Saturday after Kimball's actual birthday.
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  Now, the relationship between Kimball and the woman lasted
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  roughly 6 months between late 2012 and mid 2013.
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  During that entire stretch, the woman forwarded Kimball's
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  personal messages to Epstein and asked him how to respond.
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  Now, there's no indication in any of the documents that
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  Kimball knew this was happening. Epstein received a detailed
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  schedule of the woman's plans on October 26th, 2012, tracking her
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  movements alongside Kimball's across multiple cities and
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  countries from that fall through January 2013.
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  In one entry, read Kimball Gen. C parts for the December holiday
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  period. Epstein was monitoring the
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  relationship in real time and Kimball appears to have had no
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  idea. And even years later, October
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  2015, the woman forwarded an invitation from Kimball to
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  Epstein asking for his advice and for their She should have
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  had a kitchen fundraiser in Los Angeles.
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  The dynamic between the woman and Epstein persisted long after
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  the romantic relationship with Kimball.
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  It ended now. The relationship fell apart in
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  April 2013. Kimball emailed the woman and
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  told her he was not able to do a real relationship and suggested
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  they step back to casual dating. She forwarded that message to
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  Epstein. His response was cold and
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  telling. Good news now we have you back
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  again full time. He then invited her to his
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  ranch. A separate associate told her to
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  cut off contact with Kimball and leave immediately.
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  Through her attorney, the woman has since said she was trapped,
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  coerced and abused by Epstein during this period.
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  She has not spoken publicly about her relationship.
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  Kimball and her full name appeared in the documents only
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  because of a quote. Editing error.
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  Now, Kibble's public defense does not hold up against this
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  emails he posted on X that Epstein did not introduce us and
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  that the volume of emails came from a restaurant newsletter for
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  the kitchen that Epstein subscribed to alongside
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  thousands of other people. Some of the emails in the files
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  do appear to be mass kitchen community newsletters, but
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  direct correspondence between Kimball, Epstein and Nicklick
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  discussing birthday parties, lunch at Epstein's Manhattan
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  penthouse in the introduction to Jennifer clearly falls outside
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  of any newsletter. And Epstein's assistant, Leslie
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  Groff says scheduling emails confirming lunch at Epstein's
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  house. Kimball invited Epstein to
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  fundraisers for his nonprofit. Nicolas suggested the three of
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  them do Halloween together. A separate June 2015 e-mail from
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  Epstein to a woman named Sunita read.
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  I gave another girl the Kimble and he's thrilled.
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  I told him you preferred dark eyes.
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  The e-mail suggests Epstein was still introducing women to
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  Kimball three years after the initial connection.
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  None of that is bald e-mail behavior, by the way.
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  You know the follow is already showing up in Kimball's personal
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  adventures. The Kitchen American Bistro
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  Chicago Luscation, appears to have quietly closed in recent
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  days, with mentions from the restaurant's Greek website.
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  Now Kibble also resigned from the Burning Man project board
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  after community members signed an Oakland letter demanding a
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  review of his seat because of the Epstein connection.
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  He sold $346,000,000 worth of Tesla stock since 2010,
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  including more than 100 million in the last two years alone, and
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  still holds nearly 1.4 million shares worth about $500 million.
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  His Tesla board term expires in 2027, but I expect him to step
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  down before that date. Burning Man was the trial run.
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  I don't know if Kimball, I don't know.
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  I don't know if Elon's going to let him step down that I want
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  him to, but I don't think he's going to.
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  After all of this. He should not be in any kind of
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  power over anything. Pretty scummy.
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  Let me know what to take in the comments.
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  Now, the larger question here is about Tesla's board structure.
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  Both Elon and Kimball Musk now appear extensively in the
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  Epstein files while serving as directors of a $1.57 trillion
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  public company. Elon's own emails contradicted
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  his public claim that he refused Epstein's island invitation
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  since he was the one who reached out in December 2013 about
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  visiting the BVI Safe Parts area and most publicly traded
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  companies. 2 board members appearing in the files of a
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  convicted sex offender would trigger an independent
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  investigation and potential removal.
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  Tesla's board, which he and Lana Kipple joined in 2004 as board
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  chair. Robin Denham, who has sold 180
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  million in stock in a trillion CEO pay package already under
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  scrutiny Tesla stock closed at 41732 on Monday, down roughly 7%
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  year to date in 2026 and about 15% below its all time high from
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  December 2025. The board was built to serve the
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  Musk family and the shareholder base is heavily retail investors
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  who have historically traded the stock price as the only
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  accountability metric that counts.
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  A Yale study previously found the D lines political
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  involvement cost Tesla over a million U.S. sales and now his
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  family's Epstein connections and a second category of
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  reputational risk has nothing to do with vehicle quality or
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  delivery numbers. And no one has accused Kemble
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  Musk of committing crime related to Epstein, by the way, But the
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  DOJ emails should we test the board member who exchanged
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  friendly messages with a convicted sex offender for
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  years, thanked him for connecting with a woman from his
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  network and maintain a relationship that Epstein
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  monitored and ultimately reclaimed.
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  Now Kimball's newsletter defense does not explain the direct
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  correspondence, the scheduled lunches or the birthday
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  planning. Chicago restaurant has got dark.
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  His Burning Man board seat is gone.
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  This Tesla board term now carries a question mark that was
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  not there six weeks ago.