What do the emails involving Lesley Groff and SpaceX say in full, and are there contemporaneous SpaceX visitor logs confirming the visit?
Executive summary
The newly released Justice Department documents include calendar entries and email snippets from Jeffrey Epstein’s files showing Lesley Groff — Epstein’s longtime assistant — recording and arranging a planned visit to SpaceX in February 2013 and noting a separate calendar reminder about Elon Musk possibly travelling to Epstein’s island in December 2014, but the publicly reported materials do not publish the complete, verbatim bodies of every email in full and do not produce contemporaneous SpaceX visitor logs that confirm who actually attended the February 2013 meeting [1] [2] [3].
1. What the published excerpts of the emails and calendar entries say
The Justice Department release, as reported by Fortune and The Guardian, includes a December 6, 2014 calendar entry prepared by Lesley Groff that reads, in the excerpt published, “Elon Musk to island Dec. 6 (is this still happening?),” and it contains multiple other entries and notes showing repeated attempts by Epstein and his staff to coordinate social contact with Musk between 2012 and 2014 [1] [2]. Separate threads from January and February 2013 reproduced in press accounts show Epstein telling an associate he was “meeting elon musk for lunch,” and on February 24, 2013 Epstein wrote that “the girls and i are going to see elon musk at space x tomorrow, are you around,” while Groff’s February 25, 2013 email states in published form that “Jeffrey Epstein and 3 of his assistants are in CA and going to visit SpaceX at 1:00 today, Monday Feb 25th” [2]. The Guardian highlights an additional Groff forwarding noting “Lunch on Monday Feb.25th at 1pm at Space X is confirmed,” while also reporting that the documents do not make clear whether Musk in fact attended the lunch [3].
2. Photographic and ancillary material in the release
The document set also contains at least one photograph sent by Epstein in July 2013 that shows a woman wearing a black T‑shirt printed with “SpaceX” — a cropped or obscured image was produced in the release — which reporters have cited as further evidence Epstein’s entourage visited a SpaceX site around that period, though the image alone does not identify the subject or the precise location or date beyond the metadata/context in the release [2].
3. What is not present in the reporting: full emails and SpaceX visitor logs
None of the reports in the provided set publish the emails “in full” as a continuous, unedited record; the outlets reproduce specific lines, calendar entries, and paraphrases from the DOJ release but do not present the entire, unredacted message texts for every exchange cited, and the reporting itself repeatedly notes uncertainty about whether particular planned visits actually occurred [3] [2]. Importantly, the accounts and the underlying described documents published so far do not include contemporaneous SpaceX visitor logs or company sign‑in records in the materials cited; press coverage emphasizes the scheduling and planning language in Epstein’s emails and calendar entries rather than a direct, contemporaneous SpaceX internal visitor manifest that would confirm who signed in on Feb. 25, 2013 [1] [2] [3].
4. Competing interpretations and limitations of the public record
Reporting frames the documents two ways: as proof of repeated social contact attempts between Epstein and Musk and as evidence of planning for visits that in some cases were not carried out — the Guardian and Fortune both flag that it is “unclear whether the lunch took place or whether Musk was in attendance,” and CNN reiterates that Musk has previously said he declined or rebuffed some of Epstein’s invitations [3] [2] [4]. The available excerpts therefore establish scheduling and intent documented in Groff’s and Epstein’s records but do not, in the published corpus, establish contemporaneous verification from SpaceX itself that Musk or specific Epstein associates signed a visitor log on the cited date; that absence limits the ability to move from “planned/announced visit” to an independently corroborated attendance record [2] [1].
5. Bottom line
The DOJ release and subsequent reporting supply several explicit lines and calendar entries from Lesley Groff and Epstein indicating a planned February 25, 2013 SpaceX visit and a December 2014 island‑visit query about Musk, and they include a photograph of a woman in a SpaceX shirt; however, the materials cited in the reporting do not provide the complete, unredacted emails in full in every case, nor do they include contemporaneous SpaceX visitor logs in the public reporting that would independently confirm who actually entered SpaceX facilities on the dates referenced [2] [1] [3]. Any definitive claim that Musk attended that February 2013 lunch would require production of SpaceX’s own visitor records or other contemporaneous corroboration not present in the cited news coverage and DOJ excerpt releases [2].