"Early last year, the billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel wrote an essay for the Financial Times arguing that Mr. Trump’s re-election meant that closely guarded government secrets — including about Mr. Epstein’s death — would finally come to light. In the months since, the scrutiny around Mr. Epstein instead revealed that an investment firm co-founded by Mr. Thiel accepted $40 million from Mr. Epstein and that Mr. Epstein and Mr. Thiel corresponded for at least five years before Mr. Epstein’s death.

'Visit me Caribbean,' Mr. Epstein urged the tech billionaire in 2018. Jeremiah Hall, a spokesman for Mr. Thiel, declined to comment on the relationship but said that Mr. Thiel 'never went to Epstein’s island.'"