Documents Show Indian Billionaire Anil Ambani Exchanged Emails With Jeffrey Epstein on India-Israel Relations

Documents released by the U.S. House Oversight Committee and a new tranche of approximately 18,000 Jeffrey Epstein emails obtained by Drop Site News reveal that Indian billionaire businessman Anil Ambani corresponded directly with the convicted sex offender about India-Israel relations and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s planned U.S. visit in 2017.

The revelations, first reported by Drop Site News on Thursday, have sparked fresh controversy in India, coming on the same day President Donald Trump signed legislation authorizing the Justice Department to release thousands of pages of files from the federal investigation into Epstein, who died in custody in 2019.

The March 2017 Exchange

According to Drop Site News, on March 30, 2017, an email account linked to Anil Ambani—brother of Asia’s richest individual, Mukesh Ambani—corresponded directly with Epstein. The outlet reported that Ambani emailed Epstein an article from Business Standard titled “After trump phone call, govt weighs if Modi should visit US early.”

The email from Ambani stated: “Dear Jeffrey, Info. BR, Anil,” according to Drop Site News.

Epstein replied: “India Israel Key -not for email,” the outlet reported.

The Wire (India) confirmed this correspondence, reporting that “an email account linked to Anil Ambani, the brother of Asia’s richest individual Mukesh Ambani, was reportedly used to interact with Epstein” and that the exchange mentioned the Business Standard article about Modi’s potential U.S. visit.

Timing and India-Israel Relations

Drop Site News noted that Epstein’s communications regarding India-Israel relations “came just weeks before ties between the two nations reached an unprecedented high point in July 2017, with Modi becoming the first Indian prime minister to visit Israel.”

The outlet reported that in the same year, “India was reportedly the largest buyer of Israeli weapons, having bought $715 million worth of weaponry, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.”

The 2017 correspondence also came at a time when one of Anil Ambani’s companies had entered into a joint venture with a state-owned Israeli defense firm, according to Drop Site News, though the outlet did not specify which company or venture.

Source of Documents

Drop Site News reported that its story “draws on documents recently released by the House Oversight Committee as well as a new tranche of some 18,000 Epstein emails obtained by Drop Site News this week.”

The outlet explained that the Yahoo emails “were provided to Drop Site by the nonprofit whistleblower site Distributed Denial of Secrets, which received a copy.” Drop Site noted that “some of the messages were reported on by Bloomberg News, but Bloomberg did not make the full cache public.”

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released over 20,000 pages of documents from the Epstein estate in November 2025, according to the committee’s website. Additionally, the committee released 33,295 pages of Epstein-related records provided by the Department of Justice in September.

No Response From Ambani

Drop Site News reported that “Anil Ambani has not responded to Drop Site’s request for comment.”

Documents showing email correspondence between Ambani and Epstein do not allege any wrongdoing by Ambani or suggest he had knowledge of or involvement in Epstein’s criminal activities.

Anil Ambani is currently facing multiple investigations in India. Multiple outlets reported that earlier in November, Ambani skipped two summonses issued by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) probe related to the Jaipur-Reengus highway project.

According to reports, the agency is investigating allegations that approximately Rs 40 crore (roughly $4.8 million) from the 2010 project awarded to Reliance Infra was diverted abroad through shell companies and routed to Dubai. ED officials believe the trail may be connected to a larger hawala network of over Rs 600 crore (approximately $72 million), multiple Indian news outlets reported.

Activist Lawyer’s Claims

Indian activist-lawyer Prashant Bhushan amplified attention to the Ambani-Epstein connection through social media posts on Wednesday.

“Very Interesting! So many emails between Convicted Sex trafficker & pedophile Jeffrey Epstein & our own bank fraudster Anil Ambani!” Bhushan wrote on X, according to multiple Indian outlets. “They seem to have been thick as thieves!”

Bhushan shared screenshots of what he claimed were email exchanges between Epstein and Ambani, though the exact number and content of additional emails beyond the March 2017 exchange documented by Drop Site News could not be independently verified.

Broader Epstein-India Connections

The Drop Site News investigation also revealed other connections between Epstein and prominent Indian figures.

The outlet reported that Epstein’s private calendars showed “several appointments with Hardeep Singh Puri, a senior leader of Modi’s ruling BJP party.” According to The Wire, Puri’s name appears in Epstein’s scheduled appointments at least five times between June 2014 and January 2017, based on documents released by the House Oversight Committee.

Puri has served as a minister in the Modi government since September 2017. A former Indian foreign service officer, he retired as India’s permanent representative to the UN in New York in March 2013 and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party before the 2014 elections that brought Modi to power. The Wire reported he was largely based in New York during that period, having taken a senior role at the nonprofit International Peace Institute.

Epstein’s Alleged Offer Regarding Modi-Bannon Meeting

Drop Site News also reported that Jeffrey Epstein offered to arrange a meeting between Prime Minister Modi and former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon in mid-2019, less than two months before Epstein’s arrest on sex trafficking charges.

According to the outlet, the recipient of Epstein’s messages pushing to set up this meeting is redacted in the House Oversight Committee releases, but details match closely with Bannon’s contemporaneous activities and locations. The unidentified person told Epstein he was in Kazakhstan; Bannon was attending a conference there at the same time, Drop Site reported.

Drop Site News reported that in one exchange, after discussing Modi, Epstein wrote: “modi on board.”

The Wire reported that “at the time of publishing this report, neither Bannon nor Modi’s office responded to Drop Site’s requests for comment.”

Context of Document Releases

The revelations about Ambani’s correspondence with Epstein come amid the broader release of tens of thousands of pages of Epstein-related documents.

On Wednesday, President Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which requires the Justice Department to release its records related to Epstein within 30 days. Trump said the Department of Justice had already handed over close to 50,000 pages of documents to Congress, according to multiple reports.

The House Oversight Committee has been at the forefront of securing and releasing Epstein documents. The committee’s releases have included private correspondence, calendar appointments, and email exchanges that have revealed previously unknown connections between Epstein and numerous prominent figures in politics, business, and entertainment.

No Allegations of Wrongdoing

It is important to note that the documents showing email correspondence between Ambani and Epstein do not allege any wrongdoing by Ambani or suggest he had knowledge of or involvement in Epstein’s criminal activities.

The 2017 exchange appears to concern geopolitical matters—specifically India’s relationship with Israel and Prime Minister Modi’s planned visit to the United States—rather than any personal or financial dealings.

However, the revelation has generated significant attention in India given Epstein’s status as a convicted sex offender and the ongoing legal and financial troubles facing Ambani.

The full scope of correspondence between Ambani and Epstein, if any beyond the documented March 2017 exchange, remains unclear. Neither Ambani nor representatives for his companies have issued public statements addressing the revealed correspondence.

As more documents continue to be released from the House Oversight Committee’s investigation and the Justice Department’s files, additional details about Epstein’s network of contacts with international business and political figures may emerge.

This story was aggregated by AI from several news reports and edited by American Kahani’s News Desk.