Epstein accuser says Google co-founder Sergey Brin, ex-wife, went to 'pedophile island', then retracts claim: report

In an Epstein document unsealed on Monday, Epstein accuser Sarah Ransome claimed in a series of 2016 emails to then-New York Post columnist Maureen Callahan that Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his ex-wife had vacationed on Epstein’s private island.

Ransome said that she would send Callahan some photos, including "a couple of pictures of me with Sergey Brin and his then-fiance Anne Wojcicki." The two divorced in 2015.

"I met the pair when they visited the Island for the day as Sergey wanted to try out his new kite surfing equipment as he had only just started kite surfing and was very eager to try out his new equipment with us girls."

According to the New York Post, Epstein helped bring Brin in as a client of JPMorgan Chase in 2004. 

In an October 23, 2016 email, Ransome told Callahan "I would like to retract everything I have said to you and walk away from this." 

The New Yorker wrote in 2019 that "Ransome told me that she had invented the tapes to draw attention to Epstein’s behavior, and to make him believe that she had 'evidence that would come out if he harmed me.'" In the emails, Ransome claimed to have access to tapes showing Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, and Richard Branson having sex with her friend. 

The emails were revealed as part of a series of dumps of documents used in the since-settled defamation lawsuit Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre had brought against Ghislaine Maxwell.