Epstein Files Reveal Kotick Emails and a Bizarre Xbox Ban
You really cannot make this stuff up, because if you wrote this in a screenplay, you would get laughed out of the room for being too on-the-nose.
The latest dump of documents regarding Jeffrey Epstein has hit the internet, and while the subject matter is usually grim, this specific batch includes a crossover with the gaming industry that is both disturbing and weirdly pathetic. We have Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick casually offering helicopter rides, mentions of "Don Musk" at SpaceX, and the chef's kiss of absurdity: a notification that Jeffrey Epstein was permabanned from Xbox Live for harassment. I read through the raw screenshots so you don't have to scrounge through the archives yourself.
The Kotick Connection
The most substantial part of these leaks involves email exchanges between Epstein and Bobby Kotick from February 2013. It is not just business talk. It is the kind of casual, logistical planning that suggests a comfortable familiarity.
In one thread, Epstein mentions he is taking "the girls" to see "don musk" (likely a typo for Elon) at SpaceX. He asks Kotick if he is around. Kotick replies by offering his "407" (presumably a Bell 407 helicopter) to fly them to Hawthorne Airport.
Epstein declines the chopper, saying he is in Long Beach, but then follows up with a line that makes my skin crawl: "Taking girls after to bel air." The casual way "girls" are treated as luggage or party favors in these exchanges is nauseating, but it tracks with everything else we know about this case. It paints a picture of a social circle where transporting human cargo was just another Tuesday logistics problem.
The Gamification Pivot
There is another email in the stack from Pablos Holman to Kotick, with Epstein seemingly in the loop. It discusses the "X prize" and the need for "real world rewards."
Holman writes, "Learn to read: earn cell phone minutes, iphone credits, virtual items in games." It looks like they were brainstorming ways to gamify... something? It is vague, but seeing these names huddled together trying to figure out how to leverage "virtual items" gives me a bad vibe. It feels like the early stages of the monetization hellscape we are currently living in, cooked up by the worst people imaginable.
The Xbox Live Permaban
Then there is the smoking gun of stupidity. Buried in the files is an email from xlcm@microsoft.com to jeevacation@gmail.com, which is known to be one of Epstein's aliases.
The subject line? Xbox LIVE - Notification of Enforcement Action.
The date is December 19, 2013. The email informs Epstein that his account has been permanently suspended. The reasons listed are almost comical if they weren't attached to a monster. Microsoft cited "Harassment, threats, and/or abuse."
Specifically, the ban was for:
Threats of death or harm
Verbal abuse
Griefing
Let that sink in for a second. Jeffrey Epstein, a man running an international sex trafficking ring, apparently spent his free time screaming slurs in Call of Duty or Halo lobbies. He was toxic enough to trigger a manual review and a permanent hardware ban. There is something profoundly pathetic about a billionaire getting kicked off Xbox Live for being a griefer. It just adds another layer of bizarre pettiness to a man who was pure evil.
