Billionaire Elon Musk and Mira Nair, mother of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, were both named in the second wave of Epstein Files that were released on Saturday.
Nair was photographed in 2009, having attended an afterparty at convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell’s house for her film “Amelia.” Former US president Bill Clinton and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos also attended the party.
Mamdani has not addressed his mother’s appearance in the files.
Musk was revealed to have tried to arrange a visit to Epstein’s island in early 2014, but there is no record of him actually making the trip.
Musk has denied that he reached out to Epstein, saying that he had actually declined repeated invitations to visit the island, but he “was well aware that some email correspondence with him could be misinterpreted and used by detractors to smear my name.”
“If I actually wanted to spend my time partying with young women, it would be trivial for me to do so without the help of a creepy loser like Epstein, and I would still have 99% of my mind available to think about other things,” Musk wrote on X/Twitter.
Bill Gates asks Epstein to help 'surreptitiously' give wife antibiotics after catching STD
Another story that has been revealed through a series of emails depicts Microsoft founder Bill Gates requesting Epstein's help after he contracted a sexually transmitted disease from a girl at one of Epstein’s events.
According to the emails, Gates requested Epstein's help to obtain drugs to “deal with the consequences of sex with Russian girls,” as well as provide antibiotics to “surreptitiously” give to his wife, Melinda, so she would not find out or catch it.
Gates’ team has released a statement denying the claims, calling them “completely false.”
Many of the files added new details surrounding people who were known to be involved with Epstein, such as US President Donald Trump, the Clintons, and former prime minister Ehud Barak.
The DOJ stated that its release of the second wave of files - about 3.5 million, bringing the total to over 6 million - was in compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, despite being released over a month after the deadline.
Following the release, Deputy Attorney-General Todd Blanch stated that the DOJ had removed images that showed “death, physical abuse, or injury” from the files.