Elon Musk’s ex-wife Talulah Riley denies ‘Ghislaine Maxwell picked her to be Tesla boss’ child bride’
ELON Musk's ex-wife Talulah Riley has denied "truly awful" rumors that Ghislaine Maxwell had handpicked her to be the Tesla CEO's "child bride".
In a statement she posted to Twitter, Riley did admit her and then-husband Musk had been entertained at Jeffrey Epstein's house in New York City.
"I don’t usually comment on such things, but given the truly horrific nature of what is being implied up and down my timeline today, I wanted to respond publicly," Riley wrote, before posting the statement.
"To my knowledge, I have never met Ghislaine Maxwell," Riley said.
Musk also recently denied knowing Maxwell after a photo of the pair at a Vanity Fair post-Oscars party emerged.
"Don’t know Ghislaine at all," Musk responded to a Twitter user who posted the picture of the pair. "She photobombed me once at a Vanity Fair party several years ago. Real question is why VF invited her in the first place."
"The other thing I have seen implied is that Maxwell procured me as some kind of child-bride for Elon," Riley continued.
"Again, I don’t know Maxwell. Elon and I met when I was twenty-two and he was on a business trip to London. It was a chance meeting, engineered by no one.
"It is possible I was briefly introduced to [Maxwell], but not in any way that I can remember."
She continued: "Elon and I went to Epstein's house in NYC once as part of an itinerary of appointments. I can't even date it to a year - we used to travel constantly for work and the situation was pretty similar in any cityu/country: back-to-back meetings, a car with CPO drivers, and often a contact/minder/guide.
"This trip was no different."
Riley concluded: "I'm distressed by something so truly awful being thrown around this court-of-Twitter."
Maxwell was recently apprehended after being on the run from investigators for more than a year.
The FBI arrested Maxwell at a 156 acre property in New Hampshire on Thursday.
They used bolt-cutters to break the lock on a metal gate leading to the secluded property that she paid cash for last December.
Epstein's alleged "pimp" was arrested on six charges of sex trafficking and perjury.
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Maxwell has not entered a plea but strongly denies any allegations of sexual misconduct made against her.
US law enforcement agencies had been on the trail of Ghislaine Maxwell ever since Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on child prostitution and trafficking charges.
He is said to have killed himself while in prison in Manhattan although the circumstances are surrounded in mystery.