Elon Musk’s X Is Reportedly Resisting a Subpoena in Jeffrey Epstein-Related Legal Case

X (the website formerly known arsenic Twitter) is reportedly stonewalling subpoena requests related to a ineligible lawsuit involving dormant financier and enactment trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Why? Nobody knows, but it definite is weird.

According to Business Insider, the societal media level refuses to springiness up accusation astir 1 of the accounts linked to an Epstein accuser, a pistillate named Rina Oh Amen. The ineligible lawsuit is different unrelated to the level itself, alternatively it involves a spat betwixt Oh Amen and different Epstein accuser, the much well-known Virginia Giuffre.

While some women assertion to person been victimized by Epstein, the quality betwixt them involves communal accusations that they besides participated successful Epstein’s transgression activities.

Insider reports:

[Ghislaine] Maxwell recruited Giuffre astatine Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida successful 2000, bringing her to Epstein. Giuffre has blamed Oh Amen for participating successful the maltreatment by sexually and physically abusing her successful the aboriginal 2000s. In 2021, Oh Amen sued Giuffre, alleging Giuffre defamed her with those claims. Giuffre countersued, alleging Oh Amen was Epstein’s “girlfriend.” In tribunal filings and nationalist statements, each has accused the other of acting arsenic 1 of Epstein’s recruiters alternatively than a existent victim.

The process of ineligible find is presently transpiring to get grounds related to the case, and some women’s attorneys are reaching retired to applicable 3rd parties. As portion of this process, Giuffre has attempted to get entree to 1 of Oh Amen’s erstwhile accounts connected X that progressive correspondence with Giuffre. This relationship was antecedently suspended, locking Oh Amen retired and cutting disconnected entree to the DMs.

While a elemental petition by Giuffre lawyers for entree to the relationship would look a no-brainer, Insider writes that attorneys representing X person “countered with baffling, lengthy legalese-filled responses saying they wouldn’t supply immoderate records,” and that, successful 1 case, a institution lawyer wrote “that Oh Amen had entree to the X records and they could inquire her — adjacent though the full constituent of the subpoena was that Oh Amen couldn’t entree her information from her account.”

Gizmodo reached retired to X for remark but didn’t instantly person a response.

What precisely X is playing astatine present is anybody’s guess. As of May, X’s laminitis and erstwhile CEO, Elon Musk, was tied up successful different ineligible lawsuit linked to Epstein. The U.S. Virgin Islands, the territory wherever Epstein’s infamous “pedo island” was located, subpoenaed Musk earlier this twelvemonth for immoderate communications helium mightiness person had with Epstein and with JP Morgan Chase. The Virgin Islands is currently suing JP Morgan Chase and has accused the slope of enabling Epstein’s crimes. Musk isn’t accused of immoderate wrongdoing successful the case, though helium is 1 of galore Silicon Valley luminaries who person been subpoenaed successful the case (including Google’s co-founders Sergei Brin and Larry Page).