Ghislaine Maxwell has spoken about her past encounters with Elon Musk in a newly released interview with the Department of Justice.
Maxwell, who is serving a prison sentence after being convicted in 2021 of sex trafficking in connection with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, was questioned earlier this month by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. The interview took place over two days at FCI Tallahassee, a low-security women’s prison in Florida, where Maxwell has been held since her sentencing.
During the conversation, she was asked about several prominent figures, including the Tesla and SpaceX chief executive. Maxwell told Blanche she believed she first met Musk at a birthday party sometime in 2010 or 2011, before joining a small group trip to a private island owned by a mutual friend.
“We were — or a bunch of us, I don’t even remember how many we were, but not many of us,” Maxwell said. “We went to another friend’s island. Epstein, he was not there. And we were there together for, I want to say, three or four days, something like that in my memory. And Mr. Musk was present for that.”