Newly released emails and travel itineraries appear to show that for years after Jeffrey Epstein served time for procuring underage girls for prostitution, he continued to attend exclusive dinners alongside Silicon Valley’s most famous billionaires.

The emails, part of a trove released by the Department of Justice on Friday, show that as late as 2018, Epstein was invited to or attended dinners alongside the likes of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and Google vice-president and later Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer.

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Most of the events were staged by the Edge network, a creation of literary agent John Brockman, which offered a platform for public commentary by artists, technologists and intellectuals, along with “sumptuous dinners [and] exclusive conferences … for the rich, the smart, and the powerful”.

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In 2018, the year before Epstein’s death, Brockman sent Epstein an email referencing “your friend in the Middle East” who was “coming to the US tomorrow and is reportedly going to buy 10% of Endeavor for $400m”. That year, the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, visited the US as the country’s sovereign wealth fund sought to invest $400m in the US talent and events company.