Elon Musk’s lawyer sends legal warning to director Alex Gibney over revealing documentary
A new documentary about Elon Musk premiered at the Venice Film Festival this year, and the lawyer representing the world's richest man has already threatened legal action following claims made in the film.
While the documentary film serves as a wider examination of Elon Musk as an individual and businessman, it features an appearance from Ashley St. Clair – the woman who gave birth to Musk's secret 13th child – despite his alleged attempts to pay her money to stay away.
In her appearance, St. Clair echoed a wild claim that was originally made by her in a viral TikTok video, where she suggested that SpaceX-operated Starlink satellites assisted in President Donald Trump's election victory in 2024.
Musk's legal representative, Alex Spiro, predictably took issue with this claim – especially as it appeared in an official documentary production and not 'just' on St. Clair's TikTok page – and has since threatened to take action against the film's director.
Explaining St Clair's claim about SpaceX and the election
St. Clair's allegations center around her conversations with Musk on election night, as the pair were still in a romantic relationship at that point.
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She claims that Musk told her that, before the results were officially revealed, he had an 'anomaly in the matrix' that was reflected in '10,000 lasers in space'.
This is obviously referring to the substantial satellite fleet operated by SpaceX, but this seemingly allowed Musk to obtain real-time voting metrics through America PAC – which Musk himself created – which St. Clair claimed was 'seemingly impossible'.
St. Clair also suggested that Musk was able to confirm Trump's victory around two hours before the official news came through by using 'space technology', as Musk claimed that his team 'has the best real-time data'.
"I couldn't understand that, I don't think I ever will," St. Clair declared in response to Musk's claims, with the implication that the world's richest man might have had a hand in the last election.
Musk's lawyer issues legal threat to director
This is something that Musk's legal team obviously took issue with, as Spiro aimed legal threats towards the film's director, Alex Gibney, in an official letter.
"You are [...] on notice, before release, that the insinuation is false," the letter detailed, referring to the suggestions of election interference, "that the material refuting it is public, and that you chose not to be told the rest."
As reported by the New York Post, Spiro argues that statements made by St. Clair and others in the documentary superficially frame Musk's involvement in the election as a question, but in reality amount to an accusation of a serious crime.
"Starlink was not connected to vote tabulation," Spiro asserted. "Election officials in multiple states, independent cybersecurity researchers, and fact-checkers publicly refuted the Starlink vote-rigging claim in November 2024, and nothing has since revived it."
"Starlink's satellites communicate by laster inter-satellite link; that is what 'lasers in space' describes. Those are among the very facts that we, and others with firsthand knowledge, repeatedly offered to provide and that you declined to hear."