Jeffrey Epstein's Emails Reveal Tech Elite's Ties to Convicted Sex Offender

Newly released Justice Department records tied to Jeffrey Epstein are again pulling powerful names into public view—this time from the heart of Silicon Valley. Among millions of pages disclosed last week is a 2015 email in which Epstein described a dinner involving Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman as simply “wild.” The email doesn’t allege wrongdoing. It doesn’t describe illegal activity. But it does reopen uncomfortable questions about how Epstein—already a convicted sex offender by that point—continued to circulate among elite business and tech circles long after his 2008 conviction. As more Epstein-related documents surface, the line between confirmed fact, personal regret, and public speculation remains thin—and fraught. The email at the center of the latest attention is dated August 20, 2015. In it, Epstein responds to billionaire hotel heir Tom Pritzker about scheduling, writing: “not sure yet. i had dinner with zuckerburg, mu=k, thiel hoffman, wild”