Horrible human being | Elon's Spies Ep2

Elon's Spies | Tortoise Investigates

Tortoise Media

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 5.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

When Martin Tripp worked at Tesla, he took the advice of his boss Elon Musk - if you discover a problem, tell me about it. But when Martin shares his concerns, his world begins to spiral out of control.

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1:17.0	Since we published another source came forward to say that they had seen a dossier that was pulled together by this private
1:26.2	investigator.
1:27.2	This is some of my first emails with Elon Musk.
1:31.2	Eventually he sends me this kind of long screed about
1:34.0	Vernon Unsworth, claiming that he was a quote child rapist who had taken a 12-year-old
1:39.7	bride. I find it difficult to talk about because I think it's the most disgusting thing that you can call anybody really.
1:49.0	Once the private investigator got involved then you know things get pretty shitty. Morning, this is the 21st of August 2024.
2:15.0	I'm basically going to read out an email.
2:18.0	So the email starts,
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