Elon Emails

Ryan Mac: 'I didn't agree for the conversation to be off the record'

From:
Ryan Mac (BuzzFeed News)
Date:
September 4, 2018
To:
Elon Musk
Subject:
Re: BuzzFeed News: Unsworth legal letter
Hi Elon, I didn't agree for the conversation to be off the record, but appreciate the response. To follow up, I've tried to report out some of these accusations on my own but have not found anything to corroborate the claims. Are you able to share anything that you've found about Vernon Unsworth? Do you have any evidence or documentation showing he took a 12-year-old child bride, that he is a child rapist, or that be was kicked off the rescue site, as you stated in your other email? Also are you able to share your correspondence with Rick Stanton showing your discussion of the submarine specs? With regards to your statement about the legal threat not coming up until you raised the issue on Twitter, the legal letter was dated on Aug. 6 and sent to your Los Angeles home and to one of your SpaceX emails. Did you not see the letter prior to your tweets? Thank you, Ryan

About this email

Mac tells Musk he never agreed to off-the-record terms, says he could not corroborate the accusations and asks for evidence.

Notes

Musk Decl. Ex. L (also Wilson Decl. Ex. 19). The exhibit prints the chain newest-first with nested 'On ... wrote:' lines; times given here are a best reading of those lines. Sent Tue Sep 4, 2018, about 8:49 AM. 'that be was kicked off' is as printed.

Where it came from

Court record; attribution confirmed.

Personal, press & journalists. Tags: unsworth-case, buzzfeed, ryan-mac, defamation, off-the-record