A Reddit thread focused on a tranche of emails between Jeffrey Epstein and musician Ramsey Elkholy of Monotronic, dated March 13th, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n After suing A&R Worldwide parent company Pangea Entertainment for alleged breach of contract<\/a>, Ramsey Elkholy has now turned his sights on Digital Music News\u2019 factual reporting of his repeated appearance in the Epstein files publicly released by the United States Department of Justice. The cease and desist letter follows communications with Elkholy concerning the article published by Digital Music News titled, \u201cMusician Ramsey Elkholy of Monotronic Appears 2,000+ Times in Epstein\u2019s Emails\u2014Here\u2019s What They Discussed<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n In this article, a timeline of Elkholy\u2019s communications with Epstein is laid out chronologically, beginning with Elkholy\u2019s \u2018welcoming back<\/a>\u2019 of Epstein to the New York modeling scene following the financier\u2019s 2008 guilty plea to Florida state charges of solicitation of prostitution and solicitation of prostitution with a minor<\/a> under the age of 18. In 2010, Epstein settled all civil lawsuits related to the original conviction.<\/p>\n \u201cThe correspondence therefore demands corrective action and further serves as a formal pre-litigation preservation notice directing Digital Music News to preserve all documents and electronically stored information relating to the article and any communications concerning Dr. Elkholy,\u201d the legal letter continues<\/a>, which is also signed by Aidala attorney Imran Ansari.<\/p>\n Aidala, Bertuna & Kamins has also represented Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a>, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence after being convicted on multiple federal counts tied to the recruitment, grooming, and trafficking of underage girls for sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n Conti has yet to call us back, though the article is a factual recounting of thousands of actual conversations that Ramsey Elkholy held with Epstein, beginning around 2009 and continuing until 2018. That\u2019s when the Miami Herald published a piece<\/a> outlining the sweetheart deal Epstein received from Florida prosecutors.<\/p>\n All of these communications were taken from publicly available documents released by the United States Department of Justice. They are in no way a complete picture of the relationship Elkholy held with Epstein, because only a small number of Epstein emails and documents have been made available to the public. But just to offer a quick sample: documents from the released email tranches see Elkholy referring to one woman as \u2018built for carnal pleasures<\/a>\u2019 and asking Epstein to help \u201cmake [REDACTED] come to NY and be my love slave<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Incidentally, Casey Wasserman of the former Wasserman Agency also had his connections to the Epstein files<\/a> exposed, and the fallout for his talent agency was covered extensively by Digital Music News for the same reason. But in the case of Wasserman, no direct communications were documented with Epstein himself; only with his infamous confidante, Ghislaine Maxwell. Overall, Wasserman\u2019s \u00a0communications were relatively small in comparison to Elkholy\u2019s seemingly endless email threads with the financier.<\/p>\n Throughout our investigation, Digital Music News noted that while young, none of the women Elkholy spoke about with Epstein were underage. Elkholy\u2019s ongoing communications with Epstein saw the musician bringing young models aged 19-25 to the disgraced financier\u2019s New York townhouse for several years. Digital Music News highlighted many of these communications with Epstein, citing direct quotes written by Elkholy in emails released by the DOJ.<\/p>\n![\"music](\"https:\/\/www.digitalmusicnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/reddit-thread-ramsey-elkholy-march-2026.png\" "\\"music\\"")
<\/a><\/p>\nMusic Los Angeles-based musician Ramsey Elkholy has now tapped New York-based firm Aidala, Bertuna & Kamins to lead his legal offensive against Digital Music News. An Aidala attorney has issued a cease-and-desist demand to Digital Music News following our reporting on Elkholy\u2019s extensive communication and long-running relationship with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, asserting \u2018implied defamation\u2019.<\/h2>\n
Elkholy\u2019s attorney, Giovanni Conti of the aforementioned Aidala, Bertuna & Kamins, alleges that the information contained in the DMN piece conveys \u201cfalse and defamatory implications concerning our client.\u201d<\/h4>\n
Digital Music News collated a timeline of these communications to highlight the conversations the musician was having with Epstein throughout their more than a decade relationship. This reporting came about after a tranche of Epstein emails surfaced Elkholy\u2019s name, and the internet at large began looking into those who communicated with Epstein<\/a>.<\/h4>\n
Shortly after the original piece was published, Elkholy reached out to Digital Music News, requesting a conversation with his attorney in the Pangea Entertainment litigation, Dan Gutenplan.<\/h4>\n
![legal letter continues<\/a>, which is also signed by Aidala attorney Imran Ansari.<\/p>\nAidala, Bertuna & Kamins has also represented Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a>, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence after being convicted on multiple federal counts tied to the recruitment, grooming, and trafficking of underage girls for sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\nConti has yet to call us back, though the article is a factual recounting of thousands of actual conversations that Ramsey Elkholy held with Epstein, beginning around 2009 and continuing until 2018. That\u2019s when the Miami Herald published a piece<\/a> outlining the sweetheart deal Epstein received from Florida prosecutors.<\/p>\nAll of these communications were taken from publicly available documents released by the United States Department of Justice. They are in no way a complete picture of the relationship Elkholy held with Epstein, because only a small number of Epstein emails and documents have been made available to the public. But just to offer a quick sample: documents from the released email tranches see Elkholy referring to one woman as \u2018built for carnal pleasures<\/a>\u2019 and asking Epstein to help \u201cmake [REDACTED] come to NY and be my love slave<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\nDigital Music News collated a timeline of these communications to highlight the conversations the musician was having with Epstein throughout their more than a decade relationship. This reporting came about after a tranche of Epstein emails surfaced Elkholy\u2019s name, and the internet at large began looking into those who communicated with Epstein<\/a>.<\/h4>\nIncidentally, Casey Wasserman of the former Wasserman Agency also had his connections to the Epstein files<\/a> exposed, and the fallout for his talent agency was covered extensively by Digital Music News for the same reason. But in the case of Wasserman, no direct communications were documented with Epstein himself; only with his infamous confidante, Ghislaine Maxwell. Overall, Wasserman\u2019s \u00a0communications were relatively small in comparison to Elkholy\u2019s seemingly endless email threads with the financier.<\/p>\nThroughout our investigation, Digital Music News noted that while young, none of the women Elkholy spoke about with Epstein were underage. Elkholy\u2019s ongoing communications with Epstein saw the musician bringing young models aged 19-25 to the disgraced financier\u2019s New York townhouse for several years. Digital Music News highlighted many of these communications with Epstein, citing direct quotes written by Elkholy in emails released by the DOJ.<\/p>\nShortly after the original piece was published, Elkholy reached out to Digital Music News, requesting a conversation with his attorney in the Pangea Entertainment litigation, Dan Gutenplan.<\/h4>\nGutenplan is a self-described \u2018fixer\u2019 at the law firm Enenstein Pham Glass Gutenplan & Bolling LLP<\/a>. It\u2019s unclear if the firm represents other Epstein-tied defendants beyond Ramsey. \u201cBut you\u2019re a good writer and the piece was well researched so might as well get it right and redact the excessive parts,\u201d Elkholy told Digital Music News.<\/p>\n\u201cNobody seems to understand who Epstein was,\u201d Elkholy continued. \u201cHis identity has taken on a mythic Kaiser Sose-like quality. If you met him you wouldn\u2019t think anything was off, other than he\u2019s always surrounded by interesting people and beautiful women. I can give you some insights into why he needed people like Ghislaine Maxwell, who I have never met.\u201d<\/p>\nDigital Music News did not respond to this request for an off-the-record interview, nor did Gutenplan contact DMN in relation to the article. As of the publication of this article, attorney Giovanni Conti has not returned a call to discuss Elkholy\u2019s communications with Epstein and DMN\u2019s reporting of the communications. In a brief conversation with another associate at Aidala, Bertuna & Kamins, P.C., it was requested that DMN not refer to the aforementioned cease-and-desist letter as a \u2018nastygram\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/section><\/div>\nRead More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Music A Reddit thread focused on a tranche of emails between Jeffrey Epstein and musician Ramsey Elkholy of Monotronic, dated March 13th, 2026 Music Los Angeles-based musician Ramsey Elkholy has now tapped New York-based firm Aidala, Bertuna & Kamins to lead his legal offensive against Digital Music News. 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