Jeffrey Epstein was frequently invited to dinners on the west coast with other guests from the academic and technology sectors. ouse oversight committee Democrats/ReutersJeffrey Epstein was frequently invited to dinners on the west coast with other guests from the academic and technology sectors. ouse oversight committee Democrats/Reuters‘The smart, the rich, the powerful’: Epstein associated with Silicon Valley elite years after his release from prisonBillionaires and intellectuals attended events with the disgraced financier years after he served time for sex offense, files revealNewly released emails and travel itineraries appear to show that for years after Jeffrey Epstein served time for procuring underage girls for prostitution, he continued to attend exclusive dinners alongside Silicon Valley’s most famous billionaires. The emails, part of a trove released by the Department of Justice on Friday, show that as late as 2018, Epstein was invited to or attended dinners alongside the likes of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, co-founder Evan Williams, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and Google vice-president and later Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer. None of those attenders responded for a request for comment. Musk posted to X on Saturday that “No one pushed harder than me to have the Epstein files released and I’m glad that has finally happened”, adding: “I had very little correspondence with Epstein and declined repeated invitations to go to his island or fly on his ‘Lolita Express’, but was well aware that some email correspondence with him could be misinterpreted and used by detractors to smear my name.” In a separate post, Musk downplayed the release of the files, calling it “performative” in the absence of arrests. Most of the events were staged by the Edge network, a creation of literary agent John Brockman, which offered a platform for public commentary by artists, technologists and intellectuals, along with “sumptuous dinners [and] exclusive conferences … for the rich, the smart, and the powerful”.‘Finally got him to go’: how Epstein was given inside track on events that rippled through global marketsRead moreBrockman is a literary agent and self-described “impresario and promoter of scientific ideas”, who has represented authors including Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Jared Diamond, as previously reported in the Guardian.
