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Kimball Musk exits Burning Man before the explaining begins

It seems awfully hard to preach radical self-expression while explaining why one of your board members keeps turning up in Epstein footnotes.

Jason Weisberger
Feb 07, 2026
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Burning Man dodged a bullet. The party in the desert won’t have to explain why one of its board members, much like his brother Elon, shares an uncomfortable proximity to Jeffrey Epstein. Kimball Musk, board member of the Burning Man Project, has stepped down, sparing the festival a looming reputational problem it very clearly did not want.

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