A set of documents and screenshots posted to r/coachella this week suggest that Jeffrey Epstein — or at least a business tied to him — was involved in buying and reselling restricted artist and guest passes for major festival and concert events.
What’s in the thread
– Poster shared a screenshot of an email and a short financial model that claims a factoring business bought “artist passes” and tickets, then resold them for big markups.
– The doc lists several transactions (reported as funded in 2015):
– Coachella: $1 million spent on 1,000 artist passes (listed at $1,000 each), later sold for about $2.2 million (an average sale price of ~$2,200).
– Grateful Dead: $1.5 million spent on 7,500 tickets (avg. $200) and sold for roughly $4.5 million.
– Dead & Company tour: $5 million of inventory (25,000 tickets at about $200 each); to date the doc claims ~13,000 tickets sold for ~$3.8 million.
Why people are skeptical
Reddit commenters pointed out that the paperwork doesn’t necessarily prove Epstein personally ran a scalping operation. Several users flagged a local news report suggesting the deal may have been part of a broader fraud or a business that later scammed Epstein — in other words, he may have been an investor or a target rather than the mastermind.
Other common takeaways from the thread:
– Industry passes and artist/guest credentials are tightly controlled and typically require sign-offs, so large-scale flipping would be complicated.
– Some readers assumed money-laundering or Ponzi-style red flags based on the numbers and structure shown in the screenshot.
– A few people who saw the docs said the person behind the transactions has since been arrested, according to comments in the thread.
So what should you take away?
The documents circulating on Reddit are newsworthy — they show alleged ticket-factoring deals involving festival/artist passes and sizable markups — but they aren’t definitive proof that Epstein himself was personally selling passes. The situation seems more complicated: possible investment pitches, a factoring business model, and allegations that others involved may have run a scam.
If you care about how passes, guest lists, and backstage credentials get distributed, this thread is worth a skim. And if you’ve got firsthand knowledge or documents, consider sharing them with reputable journalists or authorities rather than only posting to social media.
Source: Reddit thread on r/coachella (screenshots and comments).
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Coachella/comments/1qwh98n/jeffrey_epstein_was_flipping_coachella_artist/