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

One of the people who Kimbal met that weekend has now put him in the headlines. The financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and an associate had hand-picked a woman Epstein believed would interest Kimbal Musk and coordinated club reservations through an associate who promised “as many girls” as “needed,” among other machinations—seemingly in an attempt to get closer to Kimbal’s brother, Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX who had just made Forbes’ billionaires list.

After the party, “Sarah” and Kimbal Musk would go on to date for the next several months. (Fortune has used a pseudonym to protect the woman’s identity.) Throughout that time, Epstein kept close tabs on Kimbal Musk’s relationship. He directed Sarah’s involvement and her travel with him, according to dozens of emails from the Epstein files. Kimbal Musk, who by press time had not responded to Fortune’s request for comment, said in a statement on X that the woman he started dating in 2012 was 30 years old when the relationship began and referred to Epstein as a “demon.”

The emails offer a revealing window into the tactics Epstein used to build his network of the rich and powerful, using women under his control like pieces on a chessboard.

Fortune's @evaroyt and Jessica Mathews explain the tactics Epstein used to build his network of the rich and powerful.

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