Frequently approached in such settings by strangers, Mr. Musk tends to arrive late and often slips in a back entrance. Musk revels in settings, like the desert art festival/rave Burning Man, where he can take on a role outside himself.Īt more conventional events, Mr. He regularly takes meetings until 9 or 10 p.m., but when he goes out, he does so with frenetic bombast, almost as if live-action role-playing a billionaire playboy. They describe someone whose closest friendships (many of them longstanding) are with other wealthy tech luminaries of middle age. Musk that required them to sign legally binding nondisclosure agreements to enter.
Musk’s friends have been subpoenaed or because they had attended events with Mr. Many spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of personal or professional repercussions because of the Twitter lawsuit, for which several of Mr. Musk’s life, The Times interviewed more than 40 people who have spent time socially with Mr. Musk confirmed to Page Six that he had welcomed twins with one of his executives - weeks before welcoming a second child with his on-again, off-again girlfriend, the singer Grimes. Musk and Nicole Shanahan, the wife of a Google co-founder, Sergey Brin, had ended both the couple’s marriage and the two men’s friendship. The Wall Street Journal reported that an affair between Mr. This summer alone, Insider reported that SpaceX had made a $250,000 payment to a flight attendant in exchange for what she said was her silence over sexual misconduct by Mr.
Now, at 51, he seems to be living the teenage years he never had - parties, drugs, popular friends, beautiful girlfriends, jokes cracked to an adoring audience - without quite escaping his own innate insecurity. Musk had a difficult childhood, in which he was bullied and attacked (to the point of hospitalization) by classmates. He’s the world’s richest man and the tech world’s equivalent of a rock star, which brings him into contact with a motley parade of people at glittering gatherings all over the world, with occasionally awkward results.
Musk replied that all civilizations eventually end - including Maxwell’s hypothetical alien one - and raised the possibility that humans are living in a simulation. Musk why aliens hadn’t yet made contact with humanity, to which Mr. Musk if there were a way to remove oneself from the internet and encouraged Mr. Musk and shared contemporaneous notes with The Times, the pair chatted. As it turns out, their meeting was slightly more than a photo bomb.Īccording to a Vanity Fair staff member at the time who stood next to Ms.
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