Jeffrey Epstein Reportedly Invested $40 Million in a Company Co-Founded by Peter Thiel

The technological billionaire Peter Thiel has spent in recent years Gabbing about Jeffrey Epstein—Minois to attract the flames of conspiracy theory and, to other points, to link other well -known technological magnate to the dead pedophile. However, a new report says that Thiel, himself, had significant financial ties with Epstein before the death of the sexual trafficker accused in a New York prison cell in 2019.

The New York Times reported On Wednesday in 2015 and 2016, shortly before his death, Epstein invested a substantial sum in a company that Thiel had co -founded. Valar Ventures, a venture capital company that (like many other Thiel companies) bears the name of a creature of the myth of JRR Tolkein, received 40 million dollars of Epstein, according to the report.

The sum that Epstein has invested is now worth nearly $ 170 million, based on a confidential financial analysis of the succession of Epstein and a declaration by a Valar spokesperson considered by the New York Times. Epstein’s succession benefits from the investment, indicates the report of the Times.

During this period, Epstein would have been try to rehabilitate His image after his conviction in 2008 for buying a child for prostitution. As such, the ladle billionaire was known to throw money in technological and scientific projects, and some have hypothesized that he was trying to position himself as a money manager for the Tech elite. Many other technology figures– including the co-founders of Google Larry Page And Sergei BrinThe co-founder of Linkedin Reid Hoffman and Microsoft CEO Bill Gates– was asked about their links with Epstein. In 2023, Elon Musk was also assignment garden As part of a legal case involving Epstein.

Gizmodo contacted Valar Ventures and Mr. Thiel through his company Palantir. We will update this story if we receive an answer.

Epstein knew a large number of powerful and influential people and had commercial relations with some of them. That said, new information on Epstein’s substantial investment in a Thiel company is somewhat fun, given the amount of Thiel discussed Epstein As an abstract figure of cultural war rather than a true human of flesh and blood which he knew personally. Epstein’s links with Thiel were previously reported in 2023.