Reporting by XinZhiyuan
Edit: David is so sleepy
【New Zhiyuan Guide】The world's richest man lives on the poverty line? Musk's ex-girlfriend Grimes: All his money was spent on "Mars colonization"... What's even more exciting is that this Grimes seems to have recently talked about a new "female" friend!
A wave of operations at the end of last year made Musk's value plummet from $340 billion, directly evaporating more than 100 billion.
Now, Musk's net worth is "only" $206 billion.
According to Bloomberg, that's just enough money for him to buy 103 million tons of gold or 1.83 billion barrels of crude oil, or even less than 1 percent of U.S. GDP.
Just such a rich man in the world, actually living "below the poverty line"?
"Under the poverty line" Musk, the mattress dew hole is reluctant to change
"Dudes don't live like billionaires, and dudes sometimes live below the poverty line."
Such a paradoxical statement came from Musk's ex-girlfriend Grimes, who recently gave an exclusive interview from Vanity Fair.
In the interview Grimes recalled, "The dude wouldn't even buy a new mattress."
When she lived in Los Angeles before, she found a hole in the mattress, but Musk asked her to move one from her home.
"Sometimes I even wonder if I can live in such an unsafe $40,000 house?" There was no security guard, and the neighbors seemed to secretly photograph us from time to time, and there was no protection at all. Not only that, but I also need to eat peanut butter for eight days in a row?"
In addition, Grimes also said that Musk spent all his money on "research and development", especially the Mars colonization project.
"The Mars project is not only very difficult to do, but also unable to make money. Even so, it's for the good of humanity."
But in fact, Grimes himself admitted that the reason why Musk is Musk is because he is so "abnormal".
"He's a genius, but sometimes you want him to behave normally. But what makes him what he is today is precisely because he is out of touch with the so-called right behavior."
However, domestic netizens expressed their disbelief in Musk's disguised "show off poverty", and the big boss with a net worth of hundreds of billions of dollars sold his mansion to rent a house, which can only be said to be "big pattern".
The house is not important, and the same goes for the rental house sold
Speaking of houses, Musk publicly stated on Twitter two years ago that he intends to sell all his physical property and become a "houseless person".
At one point, he reportedly lived in a simple house worth only $50,000, which he rented from his company, SpaceX.
However, judging from the interior of the house provided by the supplier of this house, it is not like the simple house we traditionally think of: it is close to 400 square feet (38 square meters), with bedrooms, kitchens, dining rooms, and bathrooms.
There are mansions not to live in, and it is necessary to rent a simple house to live in, in terms of Musk's workaholic attributes, it is likely because it is for the convenience of work.
Moreover, Musk tweeted that he was going to sell the house, which is indeed true, and sold not only one, but seven.
Between June 2020 and November 2021, Musk sold all seven of his homes for a total of about $127.9 million, making about $25 million, according to PropertyShark and public records.
The person who can buy a mansion in Musk's hands is certainly not an ordinary person. According to the Wall Street Journal, these house buyers include Kirill Evstratov, founder and CEO of 37-year-old fintech company Unlimint, Los Angeles developer Ardie Tavangarian and Chinese billionaire and NetEase founder Ding Lei.
Break up again, with the transgender sister "Lily"?
After an exclusive interview with Vanity Fair, Grimes tweeted that he and Musk had "broken up again."
In February, Musk was found dating Australian actress Natasha Bassett, and the two allegedly often flew together on Musk's private jet.
Grimes herself, meanwhile, is not idle, and she has reportedly found a new date, a well-known woman, "leaker" Chelsea Manning.
The two are said to have cohabitated in Austin, Texas. Manning still maintains his own apartment in Brooklyn.
They have been interacting on Twitter for recent months.
In an exchange, Grimes explained why she hadn't participated in a live interaction with a well-known influencer on Twitch, and she tweeted that she had been away from Los Angeles, and that the matter had been postponed every time, feeling bad.
In response, Manning tweeted: "vouch" (indeed).
Manning also gave several Grimes-related tweets, including a Vanity Fair report.
Chelsea Manning is a former U.S. army soldier formerly known as Bradley Manning who served in Iraq as an army intelligence analyst.
In 2010, Manning was convicted of 20 counts, six of which violated the Espionage Act, and was sentenced to 35 years in prison for leaking hundreds of thousands of documents to WikiLeaks about U.S. forces in Iraq.
After being imprisoned, Manning publicly stated that she had a female gender identity since childhood, and on August 22, 2013, she issued a public statement announcing that she would change her name to "Chelsea Manning" and begin hormone treatment and become a woman.
In January 2017, after Manning served a seven-year sentence and attempted suicide several times, then-President Barack Obama commuted her sentence for the remainder of her sentence and she was released early.
Resources:
https://www.businessinsider.com/grimes-says-elon-musk-sometimes-lives-below-the-poverty-line-2022-3
https://www.thestreet.com/investing/apparently-the-tesla-ceos-money-is-all-going-to-mars
https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-has-sold-seven-homes-for-nearly-130-million-after-vowing-to-own-no-house-11646927878
https://pagesix.com/2022/03/11/grimes-dating-leaker-chelsea-manning-after-elon-musk-breakup/
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/03/grimes-cover-story-on-music-and-mars