Elon Musk’s name has surface in the Epstein files. (Photo: Steve Jurvetson)
Elon Musk was part of sex trafficking pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s ring of friends or associates at at time when Russia may have been attempting to “blackmail” and recruit him as an agent of influence.
Musk’s name definitively surfaced today (Sept. 26) in newly released documents from the Epstein estate. They show he was scheduled to visit Epstein’s Caribbean island in 2014, where underage girls were known to be trafficked.
Musk, Silicon Valley mogul and right-wing donor Peter Thiel and right-wing gadfly Steve Bannon were named in copies of Epstein‘s daily schedules released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
Elon Musk’s name appears on Jeffrey Epstein’s daily calender. Click to Enlarge (Photo: House Government Operations Committee)
The documents referenced a planned 2014 visit by Musk to Epstein’s Little Saint James island in the U.S. Virgin Islands. During Epstein’s ownership, the island was known by a number of slacious nicknames — “Isle of Babes,” “Island of Sin,” “Pedophile Island,” and “Orgy Island.”
Alnur Mussayev, the former chief at the State Security Service of the Republic of Kazakhstan during its time as a Soviet satellite, said Epstein was pertinent to Putin’s effort to collect kompromat.
At least four Kazakh businessmen, whom he identified on social media, were recruited by Putin’s FSB to provide girls for Epstein’s island and Trump’s Mar a Lago. The girls were FSB plants and collected intelligence for the Russian spy agency, he said.
Trump and Epstein also had financial ties to Russian figures and were allegedly engaged in money laundering. Epstein reportedly moved more than $1 billion through accounts at off-shore banks.
It’s unclear whether Musk made the trip or any other visits to the island. The schedule entry confirmed he’d been invited: “Reminder: Elon Musk to island Dec. 6 (is he still coming?)”
The latest revelation ties into reports that Musk was the target of a Russian “kompromat” attempts allegedly involving money laundering, sex and drug use, possibly around the same time.
The New York Times reported in May that Musk was “using drugs far more intensely than previously known,” during the 2024 election campaign when he became one of Donald Trump’s “closest advisers.”
“He told people he was taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that it was affecting his bladder, a known effect of chronic use. He took Ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms,” The Times reported citing unnamed sources.
“And, he traveled with a daily medication box that held about 20 pills, including ones with the markings of the stimulant Adderall, according to a photo of the box and people who have seen it.”
In August, Portugese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa made the stunning declaration that Trump, “the top leader of the world’s foremost superpower is, objectively, a Soviet or Russian asset.”
Reports that Putin began developing sexual and financial “kompromat” on Trump go back as far as his 1977 marriage to Ivana Zelnickova, a Czech citizen whose father was in regular contact with Czech and KGB spies.
“Recruitment wasn’t a one-day operation. It was a process — the KGB’s entire playbook was built on the slow-burn. They’d spend years laying groundwork, testing vulnerabilities, and planting ideas,” writes Maltese journalist Julian Delia, who has extensively covered organized crime in Europe.
The Wall Street Journal reported in October a year ago that Musk and Putin have been in regular contact by phone for at least the last two years.
Musk’s contacts with Putin, with or without kompromat, raise troubling national security questions because of his deep ties to Trump and billions of dollars of defense and space-related government contracts.
Musk and Putin reportedly spoke “repeatedly” about personal matters, business and geopolitics, The Journal reported, citing multiple current and former officials in the U.S., Europe and Russia.
Over this summer, a resurgence of social media posts in Europe raised questions about Musk’s Putin connections, and the possibility of kompromat.
Some of those concerns were traced to former FBI agent Jonathan Buma’s comments in a German TV documentary. The show described him as a former counterintelligence officer.
In a book proposal he circulated, Buma called himself “the most significant whistleblower in FBI history” and “one of the nation’s top performing counterintelligence agents at catching and flipping Russian spies,” according to court documents.
Buma said the GRU, the Russian foreign policy agency, tried to use sex and drugs to influence Musk.
“Musk’s susceptibility to promiscuous women and drug use, particularly ketamine were seen by Russian intelligence as an opportunity for an agent to exploit,” Buma reportedly said.
“There’s a vast amount of evidence to support this fact. There is absolutely evidence for it,” Buma added. He also claimed Putin had been in direct contact with Musk since 2022.
For his part, Musk maintains he doesn’t “use drugs” and that a doctor prescribed ketamine to treat depression.
Buma said PayPal co-founder Thiel, who also surfaced in Epstein’s daily schedule, was on Russia’s radar, as well, after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
Buma, a 15-year bureau veteran, was arrested in March for allegedly sharing text messages, internal documents and other sensitive information with associates, including as part of a prospective book he began writing about his career as an FBI agent, ABC News reported.
The investigation into his activities began in 2023 under the Biden administration.
Buma was critical of the Trump administration’s handling of classified information during his first term, and said Trump’s former personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, was the target of a Russian influence operation.
Mussayev cited “other insiders,” who said Russia engaged in “illegal” money laundering through Musk’s numerous businesses. Some of the money ended up in Trump’s 2024 campaign and in Musk’s own pockets, the Facebook post said.
Musk spent $277 million to back Trump’s and other Republican candidates’ 2024 campaigns, according to campaign finance records. Musk, one of the world’s richest people, was the largest donor in the 2024 election cycle to either party.
In a separate explosive allegation in August, Musayev revealed Trump was given the code name “Krasnov” after a 1987 visit to Russia with then wife Ivana, where he was wooed with the prospect of building a Trump Tower in Moscow.
Putin on Elon Musk:
“There is a man in the US, Elon Musk, who, you might say, is obsessed with Mars. Such people rarely appear in the human population. Today, it may seem unbelievable, but often, after a while, such ideas become reality.”pic.twitter.com/yTmdYdF2H9
— (news) DOGE (@DOGE__news) April 16, 2025
“The theory has developed significantly [since then] as Trump eased his stance on Putin during his second presidential term and completely reversed America’s foreign policy that was anti-Russian” under the Biden administration, he added.
Trump made an abrupt and radical departure on Russia and Ukraine this week seemingly shifting his view of the war in Ukraine’s favor and sharply criticizing the Russian dictator.
Previously, he praised Putin, attacked NATO, and undermined traditional U.S. alliances. He’s sided with authoritarian regimes like Russia and North Korea at the UN. His language often mirrored Kremlin narratives; he cut military aid to Ukraine and has opposed allowing it joining NATO.
Musk’s positions on Russia and Ukraine have also varied widely.
On Ukraine, Musk initially supported Kyiv following Russia’s 2022 invasion and provided it with his Starlink system for communications, which it uses in military operations, The Associated Press noted.
He even once challenged Putin to a duel to settle the war in Ukraine.
In 2023, Musk refused to allow Ukraine to use Starlink for a surprise attack on Russian soldiers in Crimea, and caused a battlefield blackout in late September 2022 that caused a Ukranian offensive to fail, Reuters reported in July.
He also floated a peace proposal that would have required Ukraine to drop plans for NATO membership and hand Russia permanent control of Crimea, which it seized in 2014. The plan infuriated Ukrainian leaders.
In February, Musk replied with the “100″ emoji, apparently signaling his agreement with a post on “X” that read: “Zelensky doesn’t want peace, he wants money and power.”
Putin, meanwhile, has spoken glowingly of Musk.
Addressing students of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Putin acknowledged Musk’s obsession with Mars and even compared him to Sergei Korolev, father of the Soviet space program.