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For two decades, Jeffrey Epstein moved through the private networks that shaped modern Silicon Valley - even after his sex-offending conviction.

Newly released House Oversight Committee files, combined with a deep review of archived material, reveal how his money, ideas and relationships flowed into the founders, labs and political circles now defining America's new tech order.

Part One of this exclusive three-part investigation explores how Epstein was embedded in the Silicon Valley 'Broligarchy' brains trust. Part Two uncovers how Epstein intersected with pivotal moments in Bitcoin. Part Three, the channelling of an apocalyptic vision of climate 'culling' and eugenics.

In December 2011, three years after pleading guilty to soliciting a child, Jeffrey Epstein appeared on a confidential email chain alongside the men who would define the 21st century: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Bill Gates.

Today, those same figures exert enormous strategic influence on Donald Trump's Government.

Jeffrey Epstein's conviction in 2008 should have severed him from every elite network he once courted. The federal investigation into his serial abuse of dozens of underage girls was one of the most disturbing sex-crime cases of the era. Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting a girl aged 14 for prostitution, registered as a sex offender, and served 13 months in jail under a work-release arrangement so lax it became a national scandal.

Yet Epstein did not disappear.

Epstein Inside Silicon Valley's Inner Brain-Trust

On 14 December 2011, acclaimed literary agent John Brockman sent a confidential invitation to a select group of technologists as part of his Edge Foundation annual salon - an intellectual ritual that had come to function as the private thinking-room of Silicon Valley's ruling class.

The recipients of his email - as revealed in the corpus of Epstein communications released by the House Oversight Committee - included the architects of modern technology and global power:

Founders

Jeff Bezos - founder of Amazon

Sergey Brin - co-founder of Google

Steve Case - co-founder of AOL

Bill Gates - co-founder of Microsoft

Elon Musk - Tesla/SpaceX, now X

Pierre Omidyar - founder of eBay

Larry Page - co-founder of Google

Evan Williams - co-founder of Twitter

Mark Zuckerberg - co-founder of Facebook

Big Tech Executives

Salar Kamangar - then-CEO of YouTube

Marissa Mayer - then-senior Google exec, later Yahoo CEO

Peter Norvig - Director of Research at Google

Eric Schmidt - then executive chairman of Google

Billionaire Investors & Power Brokers

Paul Allen - co-founder of Microsoft

John Doerr - leading Silicon Valley VC (Kleiner Perkins)

Vinod Khosla - billionaire venture capitalist, founder Sun Microsystems

Nathan Myhrvold - former Microsoft CTO, co-founder of Intellectual Ventures

Scientists, Engineers & Cultural Figures

Tony Fadell - iPod designer, Nest founder

Danny Hillis - AI pioneer, founder of Thinking Machines

Maja Hoffmann - art philanthropist (LUMA Foundation)

Bill Joy - co-founder of Sun Microsystems

Dean Kamen - inventor (e.g. Segway), robotics/engineering

Hubert Burda - German media mogul

The full list of recipients and its implications for Silicon Valley's inner circle are reported here for the first time.

Between them, these figures built and now control the core infrastructure of the modern digital world - from search, cloud computing and social media to online retail, AI research and the information ecosystem surrounding Donald Trump.

Brockman had invited them to send in responses to a big question: "What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation?"

Recognisably included on this confidential distribution list was Jeffrey Epstein, who responded to Brockman:

"Mathematics ideals are universal truths, biology is intrinsically based in deception. Predators in search of free ener...