Musk: I never went to cretin Epstein for financial advice
ELON Musk said he never sought financial advice from Jeffrey Epstein after a court demanded he handed over documents related to the late paedophile.
The legal team in the US Virgin Islands issued a subpoena to the Tesla boss, requesting any files related to Epstein and potential efforts by the billionaire to recruit him as a client of JP Morgan.
The US Virgin Islands is seeking unspecified damages from the largest American bank for Epstein’s alleged abuse of girls and women on Little Saint James, a private island he owned in the territory.
Musk wrote of the request on Twitter: ‘This is idiotic on so many levels. One: That cretin never advised me on anything whatsoever. Two: The notion that I would need or listen to financial advice from a dumb crook is absurd.’
He did not say whether he would comply with the subpoena, if the prosecutors succeeded in finding a way of issuing it to him.
The request to seek an alternative means of serving the subpoena was issued on Monday, with prosecutors saying they had failed since April to issue the paperwork to Musk in person. They are now seeking permission to use a different way of subpoenaing him – either through his lawyers or the post.
They want to know whether Epstein ‘may have referred or attempted to refer’ Musk as a client for the bank.
‘The government contacted Mr Musk’s counsel via email to ask if he would be authorised to accept service on Mr Musk’s behalf in this matter but did not receive a response confirming or denying his authority,’ the filing said.
Musk and Epstein are known to have both attended a 2011 dinner in Long Beach, California. Epstein, 66, died in a Manhattan jail in 2019, awaiting trial for sex trafficking.