
For years, Elon Musk has said the same thing whenever his name surfaced in connection with Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein, Musk insisted, tried repeatedly to get him to visit his private Caribbean island. Musk refused. He never went.
The latest tranche of Epstein emails released by the US Justice Department does not contradict the claim that Musk never visited the island. What it does complicate is the idea that he never wanted to.