Ghislaine Maxwell Says She First Met Elon Musk at Sergey Brin’s Birthday Celebration

Elon Musk infamously threw Donald Trump beneath the bus in June when he insisted that the president was “within the Epstein recordsdata,” a reference to the late intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein. However a newly launched interview with Epstein affiliate Ghislaine Maxwell would possibly put the highlight again on Musk in relation to all issues Epstein.

Maxwell, who’s in jail for intercourse trafficking a minor, was just lately interviewed by Todd Blanche, the president’s former private legal professional and now a prime official on the U.S. Division of Justice. Redacted transcripts of the interview, together with audio recordings, had been revealed to the DOJ web site on Friday.

Brin’s birthday bash

Blanche requested Maxwell about a number of highly effective folks, based on the transcripts, together with Elon Musk:

TODD BLANCHE: Okay. So I need to simply — we went by way of a number of people yesterday and I need to undergo simply a few extra names and ask for those who — if you recognize them. And for those who do know them, how you recognize them. Are you aware Elon Musk?
GHISLAINE MAXWELL: I do.
BLANCHE: And the way did you meet Mr. Musk?
MAXWELL: I met him in — I don’t keep in mind the yr, nevertheless it’s going to be in 2010, ’11, one thing like that, I believe, if my reminiscence serves. And I used to be at an occasion for Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google. And Sergey had organized for — it was for his birthday. And we had been — or a bunch of us, I don’t even keep in mind what number of we had been, however not many people. Possibly — I don’t know. If I say 40, I might be improper. If it was 30 or 50, I don’t keep in mind. I’m sorry. Went to a different buddy’s island. Any individual known as Mr. Pigozzi within the Caribbean and — not with Epstein, he was not there, to rejoice Sergey’s birthday. And we had been there collectively for, I need to say, three or 4 days, one thing like that in my reminiscence. And Mr. Musk was current for that.
BLANCHE: And that was the primary time you met him, so far as you recognize?
MAXWELL: So far as I keep in mind, sure.

The Wall Road Journal reported in 2023 that Epstein suggested Sergey Brin on tax issues in 2007. However Musk and Brin have their very own drama. In 2022, Musk denied having an affair with Brin’s then-wife Nicole Shanahan, who would go on to change into Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s working mate within the 2024 presidential marketing campaign. Brin divested from all of Musk’s corporations after the alleged tryst, based on the Wall Road Journal.

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Blanche then went on to ask Maxwell about Elon’s brother Kimbal, who was reportedly arrange with a girlfriend by Epstein a few years in the past, based on a report from Business Insider in 2020.

BLANCHE: Did you meet — do you know his brother, Mr. Musk’s brother?
MAXWELL: I don’t know if I’ve ever met him. I do know that he has a brother and I don’t assume I met him.
BLANCHE: Apart from that point in — round 2010, on the island within the Caribbean for a pair days, did you — have you ever seen — are you aware Mr. Musk past that point?
MAXWELL: We met at — I used to be on the Oscars and we met on the Oscars.
BLANCHE: What yr was that, earlier or later?
MAXWELL: It was submit that occasion, I consider.
BLANCHE: And are you aware whether or not Mr. Epstein knew Mr. Musk?
MAXWELL: I consider they did. And the one purpose I say that’s not from my reminiscence, however as a result of I noticed — I believe I noticed — my reminiscence is that in discovery, they had been speaking on e-mail.
BLANCHE: So you haven’t any private information of that?
MAXWELL: I’ve no —
BLANCHE: It’s simply what you’ve — what you’ve seen from the press or from discovery?
MAXWELL: And I consider his brother as nicely, really.
BLANCHE: Excuse me?
MAXWELL: Mr. Musk’s brother as nicely. However I don’t — my — like I mentioned, my reminiscence just isn’t — it’s not so good as I would love it to be. And I simply need to say that.

Maxwell appears to be referring to a Self-importance Truthful Oscars get together on March 2, 2014, the place she and Musk had been photographed collectively. Musk has beforehand instructed she photobombed him throughout that occasion.

Writing in a tweet from 2020, Musk insisted, “Don’t know Ghislaine in any respect. She photobombed me as soon as at a Self-importance Truthful get together a number of years in the past. Actual query is why VF invited her within the first place.”

However the truth that Maxwell claims they met years earlier, in 2010 or 2011, appears to be new data, supplied Maxwell is telling the reality. Prosecutors alleged that she perjured herself, however dropped these prices after she was convicted of intercourse trafficking.

The President and that different birthday

This new interview will clearly be extremely scrutinized, given the variety of people who find themselves named. But it surely’s additionally essential to remember what sort of incentives are at play for Maxwell, Blanche, and Trump. Not solely was Blanche Trump’s former legal professional, however he was additionally fairly rattling chummy with Maxwell’s legal professional David Oscar Markus. Blanche appeared on Markus’s podcast twice, based on ABC Information.

Trump has been cagey when requested about Maxwell, even giving a weird reply to questions throughout his first time period when she was first despatched to jail. Throughout a White Home briefing in July 21, 2020, Trump mentioned, “I haven’t actually been following it an excessive amount of. I simply want her nicely, frankly. I’ve met her quite a few occasions through the years, particularly since I lived in Palm Seashore, and I assume they lived in Palm Seashore, however I want her nicely, no matter it’s.”

The Wall Street Journal and New York Times just lately reported on a birthday album made for Epstein in 2003 that included pleasant letters from males like billionaire Leslie Wexner, legal professional Alan Dershowitz, and President Trump. The letter included a line that the 2 males “have sure issues in frequent,” and reportedly states that “enigmas by no means age,” ending with the road “Blissful Birthday—and will on daily basis be one other great secret.”

A photograph of the letter hasn’t been made public, however faux variations of the letter have gone viral online. Trump was pals with Epstein for at the very least 15 years earlier than that they had some type of falling out. Trump defenders insist it was as a result of Epstein was being a “creep” at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago membership, whereas others consider it had extra to do with an actual property deal the place the boys had been competing to purchase a property.

It’s extraordinarily uncommon for a high-ranking official on the DOJ to personally interview somebody in jail. However these are extraordinarily uncommon occasions.