The email release shows a brief exchange from February 28, 2016, between Peter Thiel and Epstein The conversation centers on travel plans, geography, and the possibility of reconnecting later in the year. Thiel indicates he is not in Saudi Arabia and suggests he plans to avoid the Middle East for the foreseeable future, while outlining tentative plans to return to the U.S. East Coast in late April or May, possibly stopping in New York City or on Jeffrey Epstein's Island.