And when Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his then-girlfriend Anne Wojcicki, the co-founder of genealogy database 23andMe, were in the Caribbean for New Year's Eve in 2006, Maxwell encouraged Epstein to play host.

"be v nice to her not stupid - she is interested in mapping DNA etc ..she is key :)" Maxwell wrote on Dec. 29, 2006. In an email to an assistant a few days later, Epstein wrote that he was on the island with Brin. Representatives for Brin and Wojcicki did not respond to requests for comment.