Elon Musk threatens to sue over Alex Gibney’s – Business News
Elon Musk is threatening to sue over documentarian Alex Gibney’s new film about him, saying the movie’s insinuation that Musk influenced the 2024 election in President Trump’s favor reeks of defamation.
Musk’s high-profile lawyer Alex Spiro blasted Gibney’s movie in a new letter, addressing the pinnacle of the manufacturing company behind it.
Spiro zeroed in on protection of the film, which premiered Tuesday on the Venice Film Festival, noting the flick suggests Musk used his Starlink satellites to tilt the 2024 contest in favor of his ally Trump.
“You are … on notice, before release, that the insinuation is false, that the material refuting it is public, and that you chose not to be told the rest,” Spiro wrote Adam Mellion of Jigsaw Productions.
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, attends the Viva Technology convention on the Porte de Versailles exhibition heart in Paris in June 2023. REUTERS
He was referencing articles noting that Musk’s ex Ashley St. Clair says within the film: “He had told me [before the election] he was going to unleash the ‘anomaly in the matrix.’”
She goes on to say Musk instructed her, “I have ten thousand lasers in space.” Asked by Gibney if she believes Musk was referring to Starlink, she states, “I mean, I don’t know where else he has space lasers.”
Spiro’s letter states these quotes and different statements within the film superficially body the concept of Musk committing election interference as a query – however actually quantity to an unfounded accusation of a critical crime.
“Starlink was not connected to vote tabulation. Election officials in multiple states, independent cybersecurity researchers, and fact-checkers publicly refuted the Starlink vote-rigging claim in November 2024, and nothing since has revived it,” Spiro wrote within the letter dated Sept. 3 and obtained by the post on Wednesday.
Director Alex Gibney poses for portrait images for the movie “Musk” during the 83rd version of the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday. AP Photo/Scott A Garfitt
“Starlink’s satellites communicate by laser inter-satellite link; that is what ‘lasers in space’ describes,” he continued.
“Those are among the very facts that we, and others with firsthand knowledge, repeatedly offered to provide and that you declined to hear. You are therefore on notice, before release, that the insinuation is false, that the material refuting it is public, and that you chose not to be told the rest.”
Musk within the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on Feb. 11, 2025. Bloomberg through Getty Images
The practically four-hour-long “Musk” movie, which purports to be a “definitive and unvarnished examination” of the SpaceX and Tesla titan, drew a standing ovation in Venice on Tuesday. The flick, years within the making, is set to hit theaters in October.
Spiro urged Gibney had it in for Musk, noting that when Musk described the movie as a “hit piece” in 2023, Gibney tauntingly replied, “How would you know?”
“Mr. Gibney’s method is avowedly not neutral. Accepting a career achievement award in 2013, he described objectivity as a ‘folly,’ urged that every filmmaker should hold a point of view, and explained that he gravitates toward abuses of power precisely because of his own belief that powerful people lie more readily than anyone else,” the legal professional wrote.
The Post has sought remark from Gibney and Mellion.
