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.
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.
The DOJ released about 3 million pages of documents, in which Kimbal is referenced 140 times in emails exchanged between Epstein and his associates.
An open letter from the Burning Man community on RemoveKimbal.org called for the board to demand transparency regarding his position, arguing that association with the disgraced financier did not align with the organization’s values.
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Festival CEO Marian Goodell wrote in an email prior to the documents’ release that Kimbal was “no longer a board member,” according to the San Francisco Standard.
“Kimbal and I spoke almost two weeks ago, and he chose not to continue his board service. He sent in his letter to the board last week,” Goodell wrote in a Wednesday email to an artist who requested their work be pulled from grant consideration at the Nevada festival due to Kimbal’s links to Epstein.
Burning Man either got lucky or got out ahead of this. It seems awfully hard to preach radical self-expression while explaining why one of your board members keeps turning up in Epstein footnotes.