Elon Musk threatens to sue over Gibney documentary's "space lasers" claim
- Attorney Alex Spiro threatened legal action against director Alex Gibney, alleging his new documentary falsely suggests Elon Musk used Starlink to influence the 2024 United States presidential election.
- Following its Venice Film Festival premiere on September 8, the film features texts between Musk and former partner Ashley St. Clair regarding '10,000 lasers in space' and plans to 'unleash the anomaly in the matrix.'
- Musk called Gibney a 'horrible human' on X Wednesday, disputing claims about a $40 million non-disclosure agreement and saying 'She was never offered that and has a history of making false claims.'
- Spiro's letter demands preservation of research files, alleging filmmakers 'refused to engage' with Musk's team, while a production spokesperson defended the work as protected by the First Amendment.
- Election officials and cybersecurity experts previously rejected claims that Starlink manipulated vote tabulation during 2024, though the documentary remains scheduled for theatrical release on October 16 through Bleecker Street.
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Commentary: Elon Musk threatens to sue over a new doc about him. But the film festival crowd loves it
Elon Musk and Elizabeth Holmes are unwitting film fest stars as documentaries about problematic tech titans have dominated news coming out of prestigious film festivals.
In a tirade on his platform X, Elon Musk recently stormed against Alex Gibney, the director of the critical documentary »Musk«. Now the controversial entrepreneur apparently wants to sue against it.
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Noticias ao MinutoElon Musk's team threatened to take legal action against Alex Gibney's documentary about the multimillionaire magnate. The owner of Tesla and SpaceX has spent the last few days on social network X criticizing the documentary and the director.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has threatened the makers of a critical documentary about him. In a letter, Musk lawyer Alex Spiro accuses documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney of spreading false information and defaming Musk. He threatens Gibney and all the companies involved in the project - including Gibney's production company Jigsaw as well as HBO and Universal - to take legal action.
A few days before the premiere of a four-hour documentary about multibillionaire Elon Musk, his lawyers have officially warned its creators that the film defames him.
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