courtesy of Instagram/@picturesofgrimesMusic / NewsMusic / NewsGrimes and Azealia Banks have been subpoenaed for evidence on Elon MuskDon’t delete those tweetsShareLink copied ✔️January 19, 2019January 19, 2019TextThom Waite It’s happened. Grimes and Azealia Banks have officially been dragged into Elon Musk’s ongoing fraud case brought by allegedly-misled Tesla investors. The subpoenas, granted by the US district court of northern California, won’t instruct the musicians to provide evidence in court, as reported by Business Insider. But they will have to preserve certain documents, such as Insta messages and tweets, along with other evidence deemed “highly subject to deletion”. Other subpoenas instructing the preservation of evidence will be served against Business Insider itself, along with The New York Times and Gizmodo. If you’ve not been keeping up with the absolute fiasco that is Elon Musk’s fraud case – and you might be wondering why Grimes and Azealia Banks have to do with it – we’ll give you the rundown. Basically, when Elon tweeted that he was considering taking Tesla private at $420 a share (apparently he’s into weed jokes) in August 2018, causing a spike of 11% in company shares, he failed to mention that he’d not actually secured funding. That’s what led him to be accused of misleading investors. As for Azealia Banks, she was in Musk’s house around the same time, waiting to record a song with his girlfriend (Grimes, for the uninitiated), and in a series of tweets, she gave a little insight into what was going on. This involved calling Musk and Grimes “crackheads” and alleging that Musk was tweeting on acid, so it’s pretty easy to imagine why she’d be of interest in the lawsuit. In fact, the complaint says Banks has “proven a key source of information” for the case, The Guardian reports. Do drawn-out lawsuits about misleading investors get much more exciting? It’s very unlikely. Escape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREJudeline is the past, present and future of Spanish music Chanel Beads is searching for meaning in “this big old world”Jim BeamJim Beam and Dazed are celebrating game day earlyGiggs urges government to make lyrics inadmissible in courtHow waterbaby went from make-up artist to Sweden’s next star‘Together We Are America’: Unpacking Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performanceHow Bad Bunny became a political iconXG: The Japanese ‘X-pop’ group who want to change historyInside Johnnie Walker’s Sabrina Carpenter-inspired Grammys weekendIn pictures: Taiwan’s spiritual temple ravesListen to Sissy Misfit’s essential afters playlistAddison Rae, KATSEYE and more attend Spotify’s pre-Grammys bashEscape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy