‘I gave another girl to Kimbal’: Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s honey-trap plan targeting Elon Musk through his brother

It was the week of Kimbal Musk’s 40th birthday in September 2012, and invitations went out for his party that Saturday, at 7 p.m. at New York’s Four Seasons Restaurant on East 57th Street.

As invitees learned via email the password to get in—“pussy riot”—the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was scheming.

Epstein and an associate had handpicked a woman he believed would interest Kimbal Musk; coordinated club reservations through an associate who promised...