The US Virgin Islands (USVI) government has issued a subpoena to Elon Musk over allegations that Jeffrey Epstein may have referred him to JP Morgan as a client. The USVI is investigating Epstein’s financial dealings and has subpoenaed documents from JPMorgan. The bank had a business relationship with Epstein before closing his account in 2013. The US Virgin Islands also attempted to locate Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, former Disney executive Michael Ovitz, Hyatt Hotels executive chairman Thomas Pritzker, and billionaire real estate investor Mort Zuckerman. Musk has denied taking financial advice from Jeffrey Epstein. While Musk has never faced any public allegations of wrongdoing linked to Epstein, unconfirmed reports and unpublished photographs suggest Epstein advised Musk on certain business matters.
The USVI requested the judge overseeing the case to authorise alternative means of serving the subpoena, as it had made “good faith efforts” to obtain an address for Musk, including hiring private investigators, as well as attempting to serve the subpoena at Tesla’s offices. The subpoena demands documents relating to Musk’s communications with JP Morgan and Epstein, as well as any payments made to either party. The subpoena filed on Monday offered few details about why it was pursuing Musk, noting little more than its position that the billionaire is “a high-net-worth individual who Epstein may have referred or attempted to refer to JP Morgan.”
Epstein, the convicted sex offender, allegedly used his bank accounts to extend his sex trafficking ring. The USVI is investigating Epstein’s assets to compensate his alleged victims and enforce the territory’s human trafficking laws. Epstein had been a client of JPMorgan for several years before his accounts were closed in 2013, but senior executives at the bank continued to meet with him. The subpoena is part of a larger lawsuit filed in January that accuses the bank of facilitating Epstein’s sex trafficking ring by allowing Epstein to move millions of dollars through his accounts. The lawsuit also says JPMorgan granted Epstein “special treatment” to engage in financial transactions that many other institutions would have declined.
Musk’s relationship with JPMorgan has been tumultuous, after the bank sued Tesla in 2021 for $162m after alleging the EV maker had breached a contract. The subpoena demands documentation related to Musk’s communications with JPMorgan from 2018 onwards. Musk’s ties to Epstein are unclear, but the billionaire had been photographed with the sex offender’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell at a Vanity Affair event in 2014.
The subpoena of several billionaires, including Musk, Brin, Pritzker, and Zuckerman, is part of the USVI’s wider investigation into Epstein’s ties to the wealthy elite. The government of the US Virgin Islands has asked a federal judge to help it serve a subpoena on Musk as part of a lawsuit that seeks to hold JPMorgan liable for sex trafficking acts conducted by Epstein.
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