Elon Musk Subpoenas Jack Dorsey In Twitter Lawsuit

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Elon Musk keeps finding new reasons why he believes he can back out of his $44 billion agreement to buy Twitter. In a Sept. 9 letter to Twitter, Musk’s lawyers called out the social network’s separation agreement with Peiter “Mudge” Zatko — its former head of security who was fired in January — under which Twitter made severance payments to Zatko and his counsel totaling $7.75 million. That, according to Musk’s legal team, violated a provision of the acquisition agreement under which Twitter agreed to not “grant or provide any severance or termination payments or benefits to any Company Service Provider other than the payment of severance amounts or benefits in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice” without first getting approval from Musk. The definition of “Company Service Provider” includes Twitter’s former employees, per the letter.

A Delaware Chancery Court judge ruled that Elon Musk may amend a countersuit vs Twitter to include a whistleblower complaint, but denied his request for a trial extension, keeping an Oct. 17 start date.

Lawyers for Elon Musk dialed upped the drama in Delaware Chancery Court today, insisting nothing less than “justice and truth” requires a three-week extension to the planned start date of a trial over whether the billionaire Tesla founder must honor his agreement to buy the social media platform.

Elon Musk has heavily criticised Amazon‘s Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power following the release of its first two episodes.READ MORE: The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power review: epic fantasy franchise returns to rule them allThe Tesla CEO recently took to Twitter to deliver his damming verdict, writing: “Tolkien is turning in his grave.”In a follow-up tweet, he added: “Almost every male character so far is a coward, a jerk or both. Only Galadriel is brave, smart and nice.”Set thousands of years before The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings, the J.D.

Passionflix, a romance-focused streaming service run by Elon Musk’s sister, Tosca Musk, has raised $9.4 million in a funding round led by AMC Networks.

In their latest exchange of legal fire, Twitter has rejected new claims from billionaire Elon Musk that a whistleblower’s claims about the company give him grounds to exit his proposed $44 billion takeover.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Nearly two months ago, Elon Musk told Twitter he wanted to bail on his deal to buy the social network, based largely on his assertion that Twitter wasn’t disclosing the true scope of its spam and bot problem. Now Musk’s lawyers have cited allegations made by a former Twitter exec, whom the company fired this year, as providing “additional and distinct bases” to terminate the tech mogul’s agreement to buy Twitter for $44 billion. “Although the Musk Parties believe this termination notice is not legally necessary to terminate the Merger Agreement because they have already validly terminated it pursuant to the July 8 Termination Notice, the Musk Parties are delivering this additional termination notice in the event that the July 8 Termination Notice is determined to be invalid for any reason,” an Aug. 29 letter from Musk’s lawyers to Twitter chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde said. The letter was disclosed in an SEC filing.

$229 billion —  in Texas, the mom-of-three revealed she has to “sleep in the garage.”“You can’t have a fancy house near a rocket site,” she told The Times.Back in April, Elon himself revealed he doesn’t “even own a home right now,” and stays “at friend’s places.”Musk later tweeted that his primary residence is a rental from SpaceX, worth $50,000. What’s more, the residence is conveniently near the company’s Texas location. Musk began unloading his real estate portfolio last summer after revealing he would give up all tangible assets to devote his life “to Mars and Earth.” “I am selling almost all physical possessions.

Don’t Doubt Your Vibe‘ two years on from the track’s release.The Tesla and SpaceX CEO first revealed the song in January 2020, somewhat cementing the idea that music was another of his pursuits after releasing his debut single ‘RIP Harambe’ in 2019.Now, ‘Don’t Doubt Your Vibe’ comes with a music video that doubles up as an advert for  Tesla, featuring Musk’s progressive house cut beneath shots of the company’s latest car models, Y and 3.The video was produced by Tesla’s China team, which prepped the cars and taught them to program their own lighting to put on a light display in time with the music. A post shared by Tesla (@teslamotors) ‘Don’t Doubt Your Vibe’ was Musk’s first foray into production too, helmed at LA’s Emo G Records, and features vocals by the billionaire himself.The music video was captioned “vibes” with no further information about further music.When Musk released ‘Don’t Doubt Your Vibe’, he temporarily changed his Twitter name to E “D” M, taking to the social platform to promote the track and inform fans that he was responsible for both writing and performing the lyrics.He also shared some photos of himself in the studio.Vibbbe pic.twitter.com/21WKNOnMXZ— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 31, 2020Meanwhile, earlier this week (August 23) Musk’s former partner and mother to two of his children, Grimes, hit out at journalists whom she claims are “stalking” and attempting to “dox” her and her children in an attempt to “get at” Musk.Grimes, who was in a relationship with Musk from 2018 to 2022, took to Twitter on Tuesday to blast those whom she claims are attempting to reveal personal information about her and her family.“To the journalists who are stalking me and trying to doxx me and my kids… contacting all my

Grimes has hit out at journalists who she claims are “stalking” and attempting to “dox” her and her children in an attempt to “get at” her former partner, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.Grimes, who was in a relationship with Musk from 2018 to 2022 and has two children with him, took to Twitter on Tuesday (August 23) to blast those who she claims are attempting to reveal personal information about her and her family.“To the journalists who are stalking me and trying to doxx me and my kids… contacting all my friends and acquaintances and even anyone I interact with on social media. It gets back to me,” she wrote, threatening to reveal the names of those journalists if they persisted.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorElon Musk, in a new bid to bolster the claim that he has the right to walk away from his $44 billion bid for Twitter, issued a subpoena to Jack Dorsey, co-founder and former CEO of Twitter.Through the subpoena, revealed Monday in a court filing, the world’s richest individual is hoping to turn up evidence that Dorsey may possess about how the social company has measured bot and spam accounts.Musk and Twitter are locked in a legal battle, playing out in Delaware Chancery Court, in which Twitter is seeking to hold Musk to the original buyout terms. Musk has argued in legal filings that Twitter has made “false and misleading representations” — including about the extent of fake and spam accounts on the service — which represented a material breach negating the pact.

“The Daily Show” segment “Dailyshowography,” calling him a “supervillain” and an “annoying dude.”“He’s part Thomas Edison, part Iron Man, part annoying dude in the group chat, and he’s anything but your standard CEO,” Shatner said.“[Musk is] a supervillain,” the Canadian actor added. “Yes, he’s the Technoking — as a joke.