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New documents released by the Justice Department reveal Jeffrey Epstein pairing at least one of his “girls” with Kimbal Musk and monitoring the romance as a path to his billionaire brother, Elon Musk.

Fortune's Eva Roytburg and Jessica Mathews explain the tactics Epstein used to build his network of the rich and powerful.

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00:00Jeffrey Epstein's honey trap plan targeted Elon Musk through his brother, Kimball, according
00:05to new documents released by the Justice Department.
00:07While Eva and I were reviewing the latest batch of the Epstein files, we found a number
00:14of emails in which Jeffrey Epstein was emailing directly with Kimball Musk and Elon Musk or
00:21emailing others about them.
00:23One email that stood out to us was Kimball Musk thanking Epstein for helping to connect
00:28him with one of the girls in Epstein's orbit called Sarah.
00:31It is very clear from the perspective of Jeffrey Epstein and the email exchanges that he was
00:37sharing with others that he had plans for this relationship and how it could get him closer
00:43into Elon Musk's orbit.
00:45What is unclear is whether Kimball Musk truly had any understanding of Epstein's plan or
00:51how he was being used to do that.
00:53He'd constantly break up the relationship in his emails to Musk.
00:56And when the relationship ultimately went south, he mourned the loss of the connection
01:00to Elon in another email.
01:02Jeffrey Epstein did this because he would relentlessly try to insert himself into the circles of the
01:11rich and powerful.
01:12And while Elon Musk was not as big of a name as he is today, he had been added to
01:18the Forbes
01:19billionaire list that year in 2012.
01:21He was becoming a more prominent figure in the tech industry, and that's the industry
01:27that Jeffrey Epstein was trying to get closer to.
01:30From our research, it seems very unlikely that Sarah was a minor herself.
01:34But it's important to remember that amidst all of the scandal and shock and awe around celebrities
01:39and billionaires being in these files, we have to remember that these are real victims here.
01:43And these emails show how far Epstein was willing to go to insert himself into circles of influence
01:48and power.
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