Emirati CEO Asked Jeffrey Epstein for Elon Musk Connection
Two years before hosting a meeting with Elon Musk in Dubai, Emirati logistics CEO Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem asked Jeffrey Epstein to connect him with the Tesla head, newly released emails show. It’s not the only time Musk has come up in the Epstein files.
In 2014, Elon Musk and Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend and coconspirator, were photographed together during a Vanity Fair Oscar party. (Graydon Carter / Getty Images)
In 2015, an Emirati businessman emailed Jeffrey Epstein asking the financier to put him in touch with Elon Musk, according to leaked emails reviewed by the Lever.
According to the records, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, CEO of Middle East logistics giant DP World and one of President Donald Trump’s early Middle Eastern business partners, wanted to chat with Musk about using Tesla batteries at a hotel Sulayem was building in Dubai. Musk, among the world’s richest people, would go on to serve in Trump’s second administration.
“Can you put me in touch with Elon [M]usk or ask him to refer me to someone at his company so we can discuss,” Sulayem wrote Epstein on May 29, 2015, years after Epstein had been convicted of soliciting a minor.
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