Elon Musk hits out over Ghislaine Maxwell picture – ‘someone is pushing this’ – Daily Star

Elon Musk has spoken out after a picture of him and Prince Andrew's former pal Ghislaine Maxwell went viral.

The picture, taken at a Vanity Fair party in 2014, has resurfaced in the wake of Maxwell's arrest in connection with the sex crimes of her ex-boyfriend, convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

SpaceX and Tesla founder Musk has claimed he didn't realise Maxwell was in the shot at the time and said she "photobombed" him.

Now he has appeared to accuse someone of paying for troll accounts to push the picture.

Taking to his Twitter account, Elon, 49, wrote: "Someone is paying for hundreds of bots and trolls to push this lame Vanity Fair photobomb pic. I wonder who..."

On Thursday, Twitter user Justin Horwitz shared the picture of Musk and Maxwell, writing: "This should be a bigger story."

The tweet was then shared by journalist Ken Klippenstein, who retweeted the original, adding sarcastically: "Be a shame if people just replied to all of Elon Musk's tweets with this pic."

Maxwell, 58, was arrested on Thursday at an address in New Hampshire, after she disappeared from the public eye following the death of Jeffrey Epstein in prison in New York in August 2019.

She is alleged to have groomed young girls for Epstein, who was a former friend of Prince Andrew.

Musk has denied ever knowing Maxwell, tweeting early on Friday: "Don't know Ghislaine at all. She photobombed me once at a Vanity Fair party several years ago."

He went on: "Real question is why VF invited her in the first place."

The Vanity Fair party attended by Maxwell and Musk took place six years after Epstein pleaded guilty to procuring an underage girl for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute in Florida - but before his 2019 arrest on federal charges for the sex-trafficking of minors.

Replying to Musk on Twitter, one user wrote: "They love to use this against you on forums but... it sounds like Epstein was just trying to get his hands on you."

Musk replied: "Pretty much."

Maxwell is now awaiting transfer to New York to face charges of procuring girls as young as 14 for Epstein to sexually abuse.

She could even be held in the same Manhattan jail where her ex-boyfriend was found dead in his cell last year.

If convicted on all counts, Maxwell faces at least 35 years behind bars.

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Elon Musk hits out over Ghislaine Maxwell picture - 'someone is pushing this' - Daily Star