The front door of Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse, a frequent destination for women procured by Elkholy (Photo: Google)
Fresh from his 18-month sentence in Florida for soliciting prostitution from a minor, Jeffrey Epstein found a willing ally in Ramsey Elkholy of the New York-based music collective Monotronic. An October 14th, 2009 email captures Elkholy adding Epstein as a Facebook friend—igniting close correspondence that would span more than a decade.
Elkholy first surfaced in the Epstein saga through a 2023 Wall Street Journal investigation, which identified him as a modeling scout who introduced several women to Epstein at his Manhattan townhouse in the years following his 2008 conviction. Elkholy denied any wrongdoing or awareness of the exploitation through his lawyer, Bruce Rosen. “He did not realize at the time that Epstein was such a manipulator and sexual predator,” Rosen told the paper.
“My client was star-struck being around Epstein and the celebrities in his orbit and tried to impress him… he deeply regrets his interactions with Epstein.”
Yet the newly released Department of Justice email tranche shatters this narrative of innocence and naivety. Far from being star-struck and oblivious to Epstein’s activities, Elkholy’s correspondence reveals a man keenly attuned to Epstein’s sexual appetites.
Elkholy positioned himself as a procurer of women tailored to those desires—all adults, based on Digital Music News’ examination of the exchanges—but pitched with erotic intent and trickery.
Ekholy didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment from DMN, sent to different email addresses discovered in the Epstein tranche. But thousands of Ekholy’s unearthed emails to Epstein paint an extensive picture of a long-running relationship focused on procuring young women.
In an October 27th, 2009 exchange, Elkholy writes to Epstein, “I really want you to meet her, in my opinion she is the best girl I have sent you. She’s a gift that I had been planning on giving you upon your return.”
Days earlier, Elkholy emailed batches of photos with vivid come-ons and descriptions of the women. One woman was described as a “business-minded sex machine,” while another was described as being 23 and worth meeting despite being “on the old side for [Epstein].”
Another woman is described as a “5’11 genetic masterpiece” as the two men plot to offer her an apartment in New York to entice her.
“If you’re [sic] taste is anything like mine you will want to tear her clothes off the minute you see her,” Elkholy writes. “I was thinking maybe having a place for her to stay during her trips to NY would be a good angle since she won’t have an apartment anymore.”
And that became a well-worn ploy: Elkholy promised to send these women to Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse, framing the visits to the women as “castings”—either for Express Campaigns or Limited Brands pitches.
“I told Regina VS [possibly Victoria’s Secret, unconfirmed]… whatever happens is fine, needed to tell her something!” Elkholy tells Epstein.
Elkholy’s exchanges with Epstein reveal a quid pro quo dynamic between the two men, where personal favors begat promises of model scouting.
On August 8th, 2015, he implored Epstein, “Jeffrey are you in town? Can I ask you a rhinoceros favor? I’ll be in DC next week with a girl and her mother. Would like to take them on the West Wing tour, are you able to make a call and request for me 2? Of course I will return the favor!”
Months later, on March 2nd, 2016, Elkholy once again asks Epstein for a favor to impress a woman he is pursuing, but who is friends with an ex-girlfriend of his. “If you help me with this I will more than make it up to you,” Elkholy writes. “As a tentative suggestion I would be willing to take a scouting trip to Europe for you, or something along those lines. Would be willing to discuss all, suffice to say that I would reciprocate with lots of time and energy.”
This explicit barter, political access traded for scouting missions yielding women, showcases the type of relationship these two men enjoyed.
This transactional intimacy deepened over the years, blending procurement with mutual ambition. By 2016 and 2017, both Elkholy and Epstein appear to be discussing joint ownership of a Brazilian modeling agency, noting it would funnel “20-30 girls trying for the cover each month” through New York castings. The duo probed acquiring Joy Models in São Paulo and the French fashion magazine L’Officiel.
Elkholy also sought Epstein’s counsel on tax structures, NDAs, and pre-IPO risks—even joking that buying into the ventures would ensure easy access to women to exploit sexually.
In one exchange, Ramsey asks, “Do you think L’Officiel when they launch in the US this spring will succeed and make $? In other words, should I get in pre-IPO or stay away?” Epstein’s follow-up answer comes just an hour later with a short, two-word reply, “stay away.” Elkholy replies instantly, “Grrr…think of all the girls I would have f’ed. Ok I’ll pass on it, maybe just buy Brazil for a couple hundred k, that will insure a steady stream of punani.”
Elkholy ultimately passed on outright ownership of a Brazilian modeling agency like Joy Models, deeming it too risky without a fully trusted on-site operator.
He wrote to Epstein on August 10th, 2016, “Not sure how that could be doable without someone there to run it who you trust 100, so I am passing.” Instead, by early 2017, the emails reveal that Elkholy found a cheaper workaround to access women through Brazil’s fashion ecosystem—paying off a local publisher tied to L’Officiel.
In January 2017, Elkholy writes to Epstein that L’Officiel is “being really seedy and trying to change the terms of the agreement, I feel like I’m in a Turkish bazaar trying to buy a carpet or something.” He laments the deal falling through and says, “My main focus was on Brazil, much cheaper shares and would get me the same results (pussy).”
Later that same year, in August, Epstein emails Elkholy to ask if he ended up buying the magazine. “No even better, I have the local (brazilian) publisher in my pocket. So anytime I want them to shoot a girl I just give him a few k. Much cheaper this way, it wasn’t going to make $ anyway.”
Elkholy’s name appears more than 2,000+ times in the documents that the DOJ has released so far. These email exchanges weren’t the fumblings of a manipulated fanboy, but the confident moves of a confidant who knew exactly who Epstein was and what his predilections were—delivering women to him time and time again.
Digital Music News can confirm after combing through these email files that all the women delivered to Epstein by Elkholy appear to be of legal age. They also appear to be consenting adults, though Elkholy alludes to feeding many of the women lines to get them to go to the apartment.
In an exchange dated February 27th, 2008, while pitching a woman named Natasha to Epstein’s assistant Lesley Groff, Elkholy confesses, “It’s just that I can’t send her there for nothing, she is a serious model and I needed to tell her it was for something. Actually I just said Express, hadn’t mentioned anything about Limited Brands.”
In another exchange dated December 3rd, 2009, Elkholy emails asking how to propose a meeting to a woman named Julia so she will visit Epstein at his Manhattan townhouse. “Help me with a pitch, I’m not really that close with this girl, maybe we can say Bath & Body Works. Here are some images, they might even like her. I actually think she’s closer to VS than [REDACTED] was, I mean Ed wouldn’t think you were crazy introducing her, maybe for catalogue? Otherwise we need to think of something else, I need to tell her she’s going to a casting or something of that nature.”
Beyond the Epstein emails, Ramsey Elkholy fronts Monotronic, an electronic collective he founded in 2016.
Drawing from his anthropology background—years spent in Sumatra’s rainforests and Calcutta’s classical music scenes—the band fuses indie rock, ambient electronics, and global rhythms into genre-bending tracks. Key releases from Monotronic include a self-titled debut album in 2019, followed by singles such as “Kids of Summer” (2020), “In Between” (2021), “Everything Moves” (2025), and the Looking Away EP (2024).
Collaborators with Monotronic have included Joe Jackson, Robert Randolph, Elliot Moss, The Spin Doctors, and Dweezil Zappa.
