Was an email to Jeffrey Epstein in the Epstein files ending in "Love ya" written by Marco Rubio? No, that's not true: There is no evidence that Rubio wrote the email, whose "From" field and signature section are redacted. No authentic photos or official records link Rubio to the Epstein files or establish an association between him and Epstein.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) by the @jeffreymlevy account on X on Oct. 9, 2026. It read:
Reminder that Marco Rubio said love ya at the end of an email to Epstein in the DOJ's Epstein files. No one talks about that. Why?
This is what the post looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @jeffreymlevy on X.)
The text of the redacted email read:
Hi Jeffrey,
I got more votes than Jeb Bush got in Iowa, and I only had one congressional district, he had four!! It's so funny (to me - totally embarrassing to him)!!! Still like Trump * and might be a delegate to the republican convention.
Was in St. Thomas for a couple of days - did call this island, but never heard back. Went scuba diving off St. Jeff and it was beautiful. Would be totally funny (to me at least) if you put a big fake shark or statute under the water where the divers go....
Love ya,
The sender's name remains redacted (archived here) in the publicly available Epstein files. Online claims identifying Rubio as the sender are not supported by the available evidence. The details in the email instead point to Gwendolyn Beck, an Epstein associate and an independent candidate who ran for Virginia's 8th Congressional District in 2014.
The email's sender claims to have gotten more votes than Jeb Bush received in Iowa, despite running in only one congressional district while Bush competed across four. Beck received 5,420 votes in her 2014 race (archived here). Bush received 5,238 votes statewide in the 2016 Iowa Republican caucuses (archived here). Those numbers match the email's claim. They do not fit Rubio, who received tens of thousands of votes in Iowa in 2016 while running for president, not for a seat in a single congressional district.
Beck also had documented connections to Epstein (archived here), including managing tens of millions of dollars in his funds, photographs (archived here) with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell (archived here), flight logs, other emails, and references to Epstein's properties and island (archived here). The email's casual tone and personal details are consistent with other correspondence attributed to Beck.
Although these details point to Beck as a possible sender, the redacted name means the email's author has not been definitively identified in the public records.
News searches
Lead Stories searched Google News (archived here) and Yahoo News (archived here) and found no matching reports about the claim from established news outlets using the search terms: "Rubio," "Epstein," "email," and "Love ya."
The records and news stories reviewed do not identify Rubio as an Epstein associate or establish a connection between them through official flight logs, court documents, or investigative files.
