Talulah Riley He has maintained a low media profile for several years, with no publications on his social networks and very few public appearances. The British actress and novelist was married to Elon Musk a decade ago.
Talluah and Elon met in 2008 and were together until 2016, on and off. Everything seemed to have been left in the past after an «amicable» divorce from 16.6 million dollarsbut the declassification of the Epstein files brought her marriage to the South African tycoon to the present.
The United States Department of Justice has so far published more than three million documents, which include the virtual correspondence maintained by the financier accused of sex trafficking of minors, who was found dead in his cell at the age of 66 in August 2019, while awaiting trial.
The emails between Elon Musk and Jeffrey Epstein where they mentioned Talulah Riley
In one of his emails, Epstein contacted Musk to invite him to his infamous private island. In November 2012 he asked Tesla’s CEO in an email: «How many people will be on the helicopter to the island?»
And Musk responded: «Probably just Talulah and me. What day or night will be the wildest party on your island?». A month later, on Christmas Eve, they had another exchange, where Epstein again insisted Elon visit him.
«Do you have any parties planned? I’ve been working my butt off this year, so as soon as my kids get home from Christmas, I’m looking forward to going to the party in St. Barthelemy or somewhere else and relaxing. I really appreciate the invitation, but a quiet island experience is the opposite of what I’m looking for,» Musk replied.
Epstein responded again with the following phrase: «Understood, see you in Saint Barthélemy. The situation on my island could make Talulah uncomfortable«.
To which Elon countered: «Proportion is not a problem for Talulah.» Despite these suggestive messages, everything indicates that the visit to the island never took place. In another email, sent on January 2, 2013, Musk wrote: «Logistics won’t work this time.»
Five years later, in 2019, a photo of the SpaceX founder with Ghislaine Maxwellknown for her role as Epstein’s accomplice and sentenced to a 20-year prison sentence by North American justice.
Here’s Elon musk pictured with imprisoned children sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell
Him pretending to care about child abuse is just showing what a hypocrite he is pic.twitter.com/6cwJLl5KOq— homeless d but not for long (@davehomeless89) January 3, 2025
It was later learned that that photograph had been taken at the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscar Party. At that time, Musk told a famous magazine that he did not know that woman and that they had only posed for the photo. He also said that Epstein was «evidently a pervert»and reiterated that he had rejected repeated invitations to his island.
Musk only admitted to having visited Epstein’s Manhattan apartment with his then-wife, Talulah, but did not detail any date.
«A few years ago I was at her house in Manhattan for about 30 minutes, mid-afternoon, with Talulah, as I was curious to meet this mystery person for a novel she was writing. We didn’t see anything inappropriate at all, other than the strange art«Musk explained.
Talulah Riley’s defense after the dark theory that emerged on the networks
In 2020 the scandal escalated even further. «I don’t usually comment on these types of things, but given the truly horrible nature of what is being implied, I wanted to respond publicly with the permission of @elonmusk. However, I speak only for myself,» the 40-year-old actress wrote on the social network X.
«To my knowledge, I have never met Ghislaine Maxwell. A photo of Elon and Maxwell is doing the rounds; y It was taken at a party where I was also present. I may have been introduced to her briefly, but in no way that I can remember«Talulah continued.
«Elon and I met thousands of people over the course of our relationship. «There will be countless photos of Elon with people he doesn’t know, who were with him at a party,» he said.
«The other thing I’ve been involved in is that They say Maxwell got me as a kind of ‘child wife’ for Elon. I repeat: I don’t know Maxwell. Elon and I met when I was 22 and he was on a business trip in London; «It was a casual meeting, which no one arranged.»
Like Elon, the actress acknowledged that they visited Jeffrey Epstein’s house during a trip to New York City. «I can’t even remember what year it was; we used to travel constantly for work and the situation was always quite similar in any city or country: back-to-back meetings, and often a guide,» he explained.
«That trip was no different. There was a man who took us around the city and introduced us to several people,» he said.
«I am distressed that something so terrible is spreading. I hope that all of Epstein’s victims find justice and peace, and that anyone involved in assaulting minors is punished to the fullest extent of the law,» Talulah said.
Elon Musk and Talulah Riley: the engagement 10 days after meeting, the marriage and the two divorces
Talulah was 22 when she married Elon, who was then 37. He proposed to her 10 days after meeting at the London club «Whisky Mist» in 2008.
In several interviews, the actress acknowledged that her family was horrified. Her father was head of the National Crime Squad in the United Kingdom, before becoming a scriptwriter for television crime shows, and did not approve of her sudden marriage.
«He Googled it and immediately saw that he liked spaceships and electric cars, but it was listed married with five children«Talulah acknowledged.
Elon had already filed for divorce from his first wife, Canadian writer Justine Wilson, and mother of his first six children -His firstborn died at 10 weeks of age from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
Within weeks Talulah moved to the United States to live with Elon and their five children in their Los Angeles mansion. The twins Vivian and Griffinwho are currently 20 years old, and the triplets Kai, Saxon and Damian, who are now 18, were under five years old at the time.
«I stopped working to focus on Elon and the kids. I’ve never slept with anyone but Elon, which is great,» Talulah said in conversation with the BBC in 2010.
In 2012 they began the divorce process, but they reconciled, withdrew the lawsuit and remarried in 2013. Finally in 2016 they resumed the procedures and separated permanently.
According to the newspaper The Sunthe actress landed a £12.5 million ($16.6 million) deal. She then had an intermittent relationship with the artist Matthew Rice, 20 years her senior, but that romance fell by the wayside when she met her current husband, Thomas Brodie-Sangster.
The present of Talulah Riley, married to Thomas Brodie-Sangster, former child star of Love Actually
In 2021 Talulah met actor Brodie-Sangster, five years younger, while filming the biopic Pistolwhich portrays the history of the Sex Pistols, the influential punk rock band formed in London in 1975.
The actors fell in love while playing fashion designers Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood. They got engaged in 2023, and when they shared the news on their social networks, Musk responded to the post by congratulating them.
It should be remembered that Brodie-Sangster began her career as one of the UK’s most loved child stars. He achieved fame in 2003, at the age of 13 when he played the endearing boy in the romantic comedy Love Actuallywhere he played Samthe son of the character Liam Neeson in fiction.
In 2024 he married Talulah and when he expressed his happiness on his Instagram account, he received a wave of criticism for his new wife’s past.
Since then they stopped sharing content and opted for a low profile. Now that the Epstein files resurface the actress’s previous marriage, the repercussions also resurface.
A source close to the couple spoke to The Sun and assured that they are both affected by everything that is happening. «To most people, he was and always will be the guy from Love Actually, So for him to be associated with someone like Talulah was worrying and two years later it still is,» said those close to the actor.
«When Talulah met Thomas, she already had a reputation for having controversial opinions and her life had already been very colorful. Even some of her friends raised their eyebrows when he introduced her to them,» the same source said.
««Talulah and Thomas live in their own bubble and only emerge when it’s really necessary.»they commented. «It was disconcerting when Talulah realized she was mentioned in Epstein’s files; she felt like her past was coming back to haunt her, even though she I had done absolutely nothing wrong.«, they acknowledged.
«The whole thing is incredibly sordid and she doesn’t like to be associated with that. She never met or corresponded with Ghislaine Maxwell; never visited Jeffrey Epstein’s island, and only met them once, when she accompanied her ex-husband to a business meeting in New York, after which she did not interact with him again,» they told The Sun.
