For one modelling contest idea, he said, “200,000 girls” would participate across dozens of cities over a period of nine months.
He said he liked this idea for Epstein because the winner was usually “another overlooked girl” and he would be able to “fly these girls to wherever” in the US, Paris or the Caribbean.
In the same year, Elkholy flagged to Epstein that a Brazilian fashion magazine was up for sale and suggested that they could potentially buy it together.
“You could easily have 20-30 girls trying for the cover each month. Just an idea,” Elkholy added in an email.
Epstein was not keen and he also advised Elkholy not to invest in the US launch of a French magazine.
Elkholy’s response was to lament “all the girls” he would have had sex with if they had gone ahead. He suggested he would instead buy the Brazilian edition “for a couple hundred k” to ensure “a steady stream” of women, referring to them by using an offensive slang term for female genitals.
Elkholy’s correspondence with Epstein continued until 2019, when the legal net was already tightening around Epstein for the final time. In their last messages released in the files, the pair were still discussing bringing a Russian woman to the US.
“She will be in London if you want to import her,” Elkholy wrote. Epstein said getting a US visa was difficult.
Elkholy suggested: “maybe she can try for some kind of student visa?” Epstein recommended trying Dubai.
Three months later, Epstein was arrested for the second time.