How Jeffrey Epstein 'Engineered' A Romance For Elon Musk's Brother Kimbal

'Please prepare her.'

That was the instruction Boris Nikolic sent Jeffrey Epstein before Kimbal Musk sat down for lunch at Epstein's Manhattan penthouse in October 2012. Not a dinner party seating arrangement. A convicted sex offender's associate is telling him to get a woman ready for Elon Musk's younger brother.

It sits inside the latest DOJ files released on 30 January under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. More than three million pages have been made public. Kimbal Musk's name appears in over 300 of them, according to the Boulder Reporting Lab.

On 9 February, Musk posted a statement on X insisting 'Epstein did not introduce us' and that he never visited the island. He blamed the emails on a newsletter he sent to thousands of people, Gizmodo said. The 53-year-old sits on the boards of Tesla and SpaceX.

The emails make that explanation hard to swallow.

'Jeffrey Goes Crazy:' What the Epstein Emails Actually Say

After that lunch, Musk emailed them both directly: 'Great to hang out today. Jeffrey and Boris, many thanks for connecting me with Jennifer. I believe you both played a role.' Nobody sends that through a mailing list.

Nikolic's reply keeps getting quoted. 'Kimbal - just fyi - you better be nice to [her]. Jeffrey goes crazy when someone mistreats his girls/friends. So better be very nice to her.' Musk wrote back: 'Message received wide and clear. Seriously, I am very happy with my time so far with [her]. She's great.'

Nikolic was not some random contact. He was later named a backup executor in Epstein's will.

But the most uncomfortable thread concerns the woman at the centre of it. Throughout the roughly six-month relationship, she forwarded Musk's personal messages to Epstein and asked how to respond, according to the Guardian.

Nothing suggests Musk knew. Epstein received her travel schedule on 26 October 2012 with 'Kimbal in NYC' mentioned five times. A calendar entry from the same period read 'kimba musk, birthday four seasons.'

None of that looks like a man who merely subscribed to a restaurant newsletter.

The Island Invitation Musk Turned Down - Almost

In January 2013, Epstein emailed Musk: 'You are invited to the island for a couple of days, come relax.' That island was Little St. James, where multiple women say they were sexually abused.

Musk said no. Sort of. 'That would be nice,' he replied. 'I'm still dealing with the nuclear explosion that is my life, but I'm hopeful that things are settling down a bit. Maybe in the spring.'

By April, the relationship fell apart. Musk told the woman he was 'just not able to do a real relationship right now.' She forwarded it to Epstein. His reply: 'good news' and 'now I have you back again full time.' He invited her to his ranch, per the Denver Post.

Through her lawyer, the woman has said she was trapped and abused by Epstein during this period.

Burning Man, Tesla, and What Comes Next

Musk is already paying a price, though a modest one. Burning Man community members signed an open letter demanding a review of his board seat. Organisers said he'd 'chose not to renew' after his term expired in January. As Bloomberg noted, nobody bought the timing.

No one has accused him of any crime, and his Tesla and SpaceX board seats remain his.

Musk ended his X post with sympathy for Epstein's victims. 'My heart goes out to the many victims of Jeffrey Epstein,' he wrote.

A careful statement. But careful statements do not explain why a convicted sex offender tracked a woman's schedule alongside your movements, marked your birthday at the Four Seasons, and welcomed her back 'full time' the moment you walked away. A newsletter does not cover that.