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Phoenix New Media Science and Technology News Beijing time October 12 news, Elon Musk (Elon Musk) is a workaholic, he almost spent his waking time on work. But he also uses every available space to organize his social life, and the world's richest man has one of the strangest social schedules in the world.

In 2020, Musk appeared on social media with a 2014 photo of Ghislaine Maxwell, the mistress of the "adulterous tycoon" Jeffrey Epstein. Musk explained at the time that he didn't know Maxwell and that she took the picture.

For Musk, such an encounter is not uncommon. He is the richest man in the world and a rock star in the tech world, which brings him into contact with all kinds of people at big parties around the world, occasionally with embarrassing results.

In order to better understand Musk's life, foreign media interviewed more than 40 people who had social contacts with Musk in the past 15 years, and restored a real Musk.

Playboy Musk spent an unhappy childhood, he was bullied and attacked by his classmates, and even to the point of hospitalization. Now, at 51, he seems to be living the teenage days he never had, with parties, drugs, celebrities, beautiful girlfriends and telling jokes to adoring audiences, but he didn't completely get rid of his inborn insecurity.

His image is inextricably linked to his company's eye-popping valuation. Musk has had a remarkable career and is now preparing to buy social giant Twitter, staging a soap opera. But recently, his personal life has become more eye-catching.

Musk's photo with Epstein's mistress Maxwell

This summer alone, it was revealed that Musk paid a hush fee of $250000 to a flight attendant, asking her to keep quiet about Musk's improper sexual behavior. He was also accused of meddling in the marriage of his good friend and Google founder Sergey Brin and having an affair with Brin's wife, Nicole Shanahan. Mr Musk confirmed that he and one of his executives had welcomed twins. Just a few weeks later, he and his on-and-off singer girlfriend Grimes welcomed their second child.

Interviews show that Musk's closest friendships, many of them long-term, were forged with other wealthy middle-aged tech celebrities. He often holds meetings until 9 or 10:00 in the evening, but when he goes out, he talks crazily, almost like a billionaire playboy played by a real person. Musk likes lavish masquerade parties, and he indulges in scenes such as the Desert Art Festival or the Carnival of Fire. There, he can fully release himself, just like a different person.

Musk will take part in the Fire Day.

At more traditional events, Musk tends to be late and often sneaks in through the back door. In this case, Musk is often approached by strangers. He likes focused one-on-one conversations. He was described as having a 90-minute conversation with Musk about astrophysics at a party.

Musk admitted in an interview that he would feel lonely. In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine in 2017, he swore as a child that he would never feel lonely.

One obvious way for him to avoid loneliness is to tweet. Musk often answers questions from many ordinary people on Twitter, and he uses the service almost every day. To some extent, this shows that Twitter is not only a platform for him to post ideas, but also an outlet for his feelings.

He expressed his love for children on Twitter, sharing romantic poems by the American poet Robert Frost, advice on the nature of happiness, and advice on improving sleep. He describes his Twitter habit as a delayed puberty.

Who do you play with? Musk says he almost never goes on vacation. Venture capitalist Sam Teller served as Musk's chief of staff from 2014 to 2019. He said Musk celebrated his 48th birthday in a small conference room at a California factory in Tesla, with a piece of cake and six colleagues.

"for five years, I spent almost every day with Elon except when I was with my family. He spends almost every waking hour at work," Teller said. "if you think it's fun to spend a long rocket engineering weekend in a wet, sparsely populated corner of southern Texas, then you should be jealous of Elon's social life."

Musk has crammed his social life into his busy work schedule: one night in Cabo, Mexico, and a weekend in Spain tomorrow, with jet lag exacerbating his well-known sleep problems.

Musk's work and life line is also blurred. Many of his closest friends are long-term investors in his company, who share the same technical worldview and geek complex. Most of these friends are in their forties and fifties, and they often have dinner quietly with Musk in the private back room of the restaurant. It's a low-key party that turns to topics such as science fiction or World War II fighters.

Musk and Brin went to the party.

His bosom friends include Luke Norsek (Luke Nosek) and Antonio Gracias (Antonio Gracias). Norsek worked with Musk at PayPal and later founded Founders Fund, a high-profile venture capital firm, with Peter Thiel. Gracias is a private equity investor who served on Tesla's board of directors for 14 years. Musk gave him the second Tesla Roadster.

Musk often gets business advice from his friends, sometimes on his own initiative, but usually not. This has brought some of his inner circle into his legal process with Twitter, including David Sacks, whose Craft Ventures has invested in companies such as Uber, Slack, Quora and Airbnb;, as well as investor Jason Calacanis and venture capitalists Steve Jurvetson and Joe Lonsdale. In a text message released as a result of the Twitter lawsuit, Musk warned Karakanis not to solicit investment from "strangers" for the Twitter deal, because "it makes people think I'm desperate."

The friends of Musk's lavish birthday party have gone from nerds to tycoons, and they are famous for their lavish celebrations. They hired celebrity musicians Cuddy B. and David Lee Ross (David Lee Roth) at the party and took out entire resorts and even historic sites. Ken Hoery is a friend of Musk, co-founder of PayPal and ambassador to Sweden during the Trump administration. He held a birthday party for himself in November 2020 in a magnificent 19th century castle on the outskirts of Stockholm. Musk once said on Twitter that he had infected novel coronavirus from "a visiting American" during that trip.

In June 2017, Yulvetsson hosted a party at his home in the Bay area. As a result, the party became a minor scandal after Vanity Fair magazine characterized it as a "sex party". Musk, who was present at the time, objected, saying in a statement that the party was "boring and corporate, with no sex or nudity." But another guest at the party said he saw Musk participate in cuddle puddle, a typical asexual group cuddle that is popular in the San Francisco Bay area.

Yurvetsson, Holly, Lonsdale, Caracanis

Musk himself held a series of lavish birthday celebrations, including one in an English castle and one on the luxury train Orient Express. He has also held themed parties, including at least one live horse riding contest. Musk suffered a back injury during a scuffle with the sumo world champion at a Japanese-themed party in Taletown, New York.

Sometimes these celebrations last all weekend, such as the 40th birthday party recently held by Yurvetson's wife at the manor in half Moon Bay, California. Musk once sent a selfie of him and Brin to the New York Post to refute reports of his involvement in Brin's affair. Through this picture, the public can get a glimpse of the party.

In 1999, Musk made his first bucket of gold by selling his software startup Zip2 to Compaq for $22 million. Zip2 developed an online city guide at the time. In the same year, he founded the payment company X.com, which later became PayPal.

In 2002, the sale of PayPal made Musk worth more than $100 million. In the same year, he founded the American Space Exploration Technology Company (SpaceX) on the outskirts of Los Angeles. There, Hollywood and its rich nightlife found Musk. They want Musk to play a role in saving the world as Silicon Valley wizards.

"he was a treasure when he first moved here because there were no tech giants in Los Angeles." Said Ashlee Vance, author of Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and the pursuit of a better Future, published in 2017.

Musk's social circle includes DiCaprio and Hilton.

At that time, Ari Emanuel, founder of Endeavour Group, a famous American artist agency, suddenly called Musk. Famous actor Leonardo DiCaprio (Leonardo DiCaprio) begged Musk for a Tesla Roadster sports car. Musk and his first wife, Canadian novelist Justine Musk, moved into a house in Belle, Calif., between music mogul Quincy Jones and Wild Girl creator Joe Joe Francis.

In an article for the fashion magazine Jia Ren, Musk's ex-wife Justin recalled parties in Hollywood with DiCaprio and Paris Hilton in the mid-2000s and hanging out with rock star Bono on Richard Branson's private island.

Musk once invested in a nightclub called Deep in Los Angeles, which was described by the Los Angeles Times in 2001 as a place "about extravagance and hedonism, provocative, crazy depravity" and "deep peeping."

Graydon Carter, a former Vanity Fair editor, entertained Mr Musk at the magazine's Oscar party. "he has an incredible childishness and charm. He is more handsome than any other technical man." Carter said.

However, Musk himself kept a low profile. In 2008, Carter hosted a dinner at his Waverly Hotel in Greenwich Village. Musk attended the dinner with his mother, model Maye Musk. Musk sat there almost quietly, while her mother was intoxicated by it.

Musk and music producer Jones are neighbors.

Musk moved to Texas from California in 2020, but he remained in close contact with Hollywood. He has always been a member of the super luxurious San Vicente Villa Club (San Vicente Bungalows) in West Hollywood. The club requires guests to put opaque stickers on mobile phone cameras. Although the luxuriantly decorated club has restaurants, bars, billiards rooms and screening halls, Musk is often seen in a place called the smoking Garden. Guests will go there to blend in with new acquaintances and flirt with each other.

When Musk was in Los Angeles, he often spent the night at the home of Michael Kives, a Hillary Clinton broker, at Beverly Hills. Keefes was an influential broker who turned venture capitalist and invested in several of Musk's companies. Keeves, a former agent for A-list stars such as Arnold Schwarzenegger (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and Bruce Willis (Bruce Willis), has been a friend of Musk for many years.

Musk recently had dinner with a bunch of celebrities at Keeves' house, including HBO host Bill Maher, Hollywood superproducer Brian Grazer, and gaming giant Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Bobby Kotick. Former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein (Lloyd Blankfein) joined the conversation in the form of video chat.

He also maintained a decade-long friendship with Kanye and singer Kanye West. This week, Musk tweeted that he had talked to West about the musician's recent anti-Semitic remarks, and he wanted West to "take these words to heart."

Musk's "White skin" photo

In May, Musk attended Emmanuel's star-studded wedding in St. Tropez, attended by Diddy, producer Larry David and Emily Ratakovsky. According to people at the wedding, Musk was seen talking with David.

After the wedding, Musk and Emanuel went on holiday with Emanuel on the Greek island of Mykonos. It was during this vacation that pictures of Musk topless and "white-skinned" went viral on the Internet.

Earlier this month, the media revealed that Emanuel was still walking back and forth to help Musk reach a settlement with Twitter.

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