courtesy of Instagram/@picturesofgrimesMusicNewsMusic / 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. Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MORE‘The unknown is exciting’: Why Gorillaz’ upcoming album is all about deathThe 20 best tracks of 2025, rankedVCARBMeet the young creatives VCARB is getting into F1The 20 best albums of 2025, rankedThe renaissance of Zara Larsson: ‘I’m out of the Khia Asylum’The 10 best music videos of 2025, rankedListen to our shadowy Dazed Winter 2025 playlist7 of Chase Infiniti’s favourite K-pop tracksMeet The Deep, K-pop’s antihero ‘This is our Nirvana!’: Are Geese Gen Z’s first great rock band?10 of Yung Lean’s best collabs‘We’re like brother and sister’: Yung Lean and Charli xcx in conversation