Talulah Riley attends the 2022 British Academy Film Awards Gala Dinner on March 11, 2022 in London, England (left) and Elon Musk at a SpaceX event in Boca Chica Beach, Texas on August 25, 2022. Image: Mike Marsland/WireImage/ Michael Gonzalez (Getty Images)
The mysterious person known only as “TJ” in court documents made public last week during Twitter’s lawsuit against Elon Musk has been revealed as the ex-wife of the billionaire, Talulah Riley, according to a new report from Bloomberg News. .
Riley, a British actress who had minor roles in HBO’s Westworld and the FX miniseries Pistol, encouraged Musk to destroy the entire social media platform.
“Can you buy Twitter and then delete it, please!? xx” Riley Musk sent a text message on March 24, according to documents filed in court. “America Is Going Insane.”
Riley’s middle name is “Jane,” according to Bloomberg, which is why she appeared on Musk’s phone as TJ, a mystery to most people when the lyrics first surfaced. Riley continued to text on March 24, apparently angry that the account for right-wing parody website Babylon Bee had been suspended from Twitter for naming a trans woman as “Man of the Year.”
“The Babylon Bee got suspension is crazy. Raiyah and I were talking about it today. It was a fucking joke. Why has everyone become so puritanical?” Riley texted Musk.
Raiyah refers to Raiyah Bint Al-Hussein, the princess of Jordan, according to Bloomberg. She is the half-sister of the current Jordanian King Abdullah II and is married to British journalist Ned Donovan.
“Or can you buy Twitter and make it a radical free speech?” Riley texted Musk. “There’s so much stupidity coming from Twitter xx.”
Riley, who has about 50,000 followers on Twitter but hasn’t tweeted since July, wrote a dystopian novel that was mysteriously shelved in 2019 before finally being published last summer.
When Musk finally responded to Riley’s litany of lyrics, he said, “Maybe buy it and change it to properly support free speech xx.”
Musk and Riley first married in 2010 and divorced for the first time in 2012. The two remarried in 2013 and divorced a second time in 2016.
The lyrics, which also include correspondence with the likes of Oracle’s Larry Ellison, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and podcast host Joe Rogan, are relevant to the lawsuit brought by Twitter after Musk said he wanted to buy the social media company and sell it for about $ 44 billion. Musk later pulled out of the deal, causing Twitter’s share price to plummet, and the company is suing Musk to close the deal.