The Musk brothers were buddies with Epstein.
Kimball dated one of Epstein’s “girls” back in the day.
Trump was Epstein’s buddy too, until he wasn’t. Same thing could have happened with Elon. Why would he bring up the story he did in the OP if he was still friends with Epstein? It doesn’t look like Elon was ever friends with Epstein.
“In an email, Elon Musk responded: “I don’t recall introducing Epstein to anyone, as I don’t know the guy well enough to do so, Epstein is obviously a creep and Zuckerberg is not a friend of mine. Several years ago, I was at his house in Manhattan for about 30 minutes in the middle of the afternoon with Talulah [Riley], as she was curious about meeting this strange person for a novel she was writing. We did not see anything inappropriate at all, apart from weird art. He tried repeatedly to get me to visit his island. I declined.” A Musk spokesperson also emailed: “Elon never introduced Jeffrey Epstein to Mark Zuckerberg and does not know either person well enough to do so. They simply happened to be guests at a neuroscience dinner organized by Reid Hoffman.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-case-grows-more-grotesque