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X-CUSE ME? Elon Musk’s dad Errol claps back at claims that Tesla CEO is ‘on drugs and has mental health issues’ in shock report

ELON Musk’s dad has hit back at bombshell claims that the world’s richest man is on drugs.

A deep dive on the tech tycoon published last week by The New Yorker magazine linked Musk’s “erratic behavior to efforts to self-medicate.”

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has been accused of self-medicating with the party drug ketamine in a report published last week by The New YorkerCredit: Reuters

Speaking exclusively to The U.S. Sun, his dad Errol said that the report is ‘blatantly inaccurate’Credit: AFP

Elon’s estranged father pointed to a memorable moment when the billionaire appeared to smoke marijuana with Joe Rogan and said he didn’t actually inhale

The pugnacious piece by Hollywood scion Ronan Farrow repeated claims from 2018 that Tesla board members had expressed concern about Musk’s use of sleep aid Ambien.

It also stated that several people familiar with Musk’s habits had confirmed that he microdoses ketamine, which can be taken both as a depression treatment or a party drug.

The article pointed back to the moment Musk smoked pot on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast in 2018, which led to a NASA safety review of SpaceX.

Meanwhile, an unnamed close colleague was quoted opining that 52-year-old Elon’s “life just sucks” due to the stress of running multiple highly successful and demanding businesses.

Musk’s retired electromechanical engineer dad Errol, 77, believes the claims are all part of a broader attack by Elon’s enemies.

He even appeared to link them to recent legal moves by the US government to go after Elon’s business interests.

Asked about the article, Errol exclusively told The U.S. Sun from his home in South Africa: “It’s a very worrying hit job on Elon, filled with blatant inaccuracies.

“Subject to the same scrutiny, 99.9 percent of those who view Elon in the light of this article would be condemned outright as a danger to society.

Source: https://www.the-sun.com/news/8984039/elon-musk-dad-errol-response-drug-claims/?utm_campaign=native_share&utm_source=sharebar_native&utm_medium=sharebar_native

Supermodel Bella Hadid clashes with Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir

The 26-year-old star condemned Itamar Ben-Gvir’s views on Instagram after he expressed that the right to life and movement for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank trumped the right to movement for Palestinians.

US supermodel Bella Hadid has clashed with Israel’s national security minister over his remarks about Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

During an interview with N12 News on Wednesday, Itamar Ben-Gvir expressed the view that the safety and mobility rights of Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank held more weight than those of Palestinians.

The Palestinian population has persistently opposed travel restrictions, including checkpoints, imposed by Israel in the West Bank – a region where they exercise partial self-governance.

Mr Ben-Gvir, who resides in the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba close to the West Bank city of Hebron, claimed that these restrictions were crucial for safeguarding his family’s security.

He said: “The privilege for my family, including my spouse and children, to travel through Judea and Samaria takes precedence over the mobility rights of Arab residents,” alluding to the West Bank by its ancient Hebrew name.

Hadid, 26, whose paternal roots are Palestinian and who has been a vocal advocate for Palestinian rights, voiced her criticism of Mr Ben-Gvir’s statement on Instagram, where she has nearly 60 million followers.

In a post shared on Thursday, she wrote: “In no circumstance, at no time, particularly in 2023, should one life be considered more valuable than another’s, particularly due to their ethnicity, culture, or unfounded animosity.”

Bella Hadid posted a statement on her Instagram stories

Hadid branded an ‘opponent of Israel’

In response, Mr Ben-Gvir issued a statement on Friday labelling Hadid as an “opponent of Israel” and alleged that she selectively posted a portion of the interview on her social media to depict him unfairly as a bigot.

He later appeared to double down on his remarks, saying: “Not only do I not take back what I said, I say it again: our right to return home in peace, to wander around Judea and Samaria and to not get killed is greater than the right to freedom of movement of residents of the Palestinian Authority.”

The Palestinian foreign ministry denounced Mr Ben-Gvir’s comments on Thursday, describing them as “repugnant and prejudiced,” and contended that these remarks further underlined Israel’s system of apartheid and Jewish dominance. Israel, however, refutes any allegations of maintaining an apartheid framework over Palestinians.

Source : https://news.sky.com/story/supermodel-bella-hadid-clashes-with-israeli-minister-itamar-ben-gvir-12947345

Michael Jackson sexual abuse lawsuits revived by appeals court

FILE – Michael Jackson arrives at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse for his child molestation trial in Santa Maria, Calif., May 25, 2005. A California appeals court on Friday, Aug. 18, 2023, revived lawsuits from two men who allege Michael Jackson sexually abused them for years when they were boys. (Aaron Lambert/The Santa Maria Times via AP, Pool, File)

A California appeals court on Friday revived lawsuits from two men who allege Michael Jackson sexually abused them for years when they were boys.

A three-judge panel from California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal found that the lawsuits of Wade Robson and James Safechuck should not have been dismissed by a lower court, and that the men can validly claim that the two Jackson-owned corporations that were named as defendants in the cases had a responsibility to protect them. A new California law that temporarily broadened the scope of sexual abuse cases enabled the appeals court to restore them.

It’s the second time the lawsuits — brought by Robson in 2013 and Safechuck the following year — have been brought back after dismissal. The two men became more widely known for telling their stories in the 2019 HBO documentary “ Leaving Neverland.”

A judge who dismissed the suits in 2021 found that the corporations, MJJ Productions Inc. and MJJ Ventures Inc., could not be expected to function like the Boy Scouts or a church where a child in their care could expect their protection. Jackson, who died in 2009, was the sole owner and only shareholder in the companies.

The higher court judges disagreed, writing that “a corporation that facilitates the sexual abuse of children by one of its employees is not excused from an affirmative duty to protect those children merely because it is solely owned by the perpetrator of the abuse.”

They added that “it would be perverse to find no duty based on the corporate defendant having only one shareholder. And so we reverse the judgments entered for the corporations.”

Jonathan Steinsapir, attorney for the Jackson estate, said they were “disappointed.”

“Two distinguished trial judges repeatedly dismissed these cases on numerous occasions over the last decade because the law required it,” Steinsapir said in an email to The Associated Press. “We remain fully confident that Michael is innocent of these allegations, which are contrary to all credible evidence and independent corroboration, and which were only first made years after Michael’s death by men motivated solely by money.”

Vince Finaldi, an attorney for Robson and Safechuck, said in an email that they were “pleased but not surprised” that the court overturned the previous judge’s “incorrect rulings in these cases, which were against California law and would have set a dangerous precedent that endangered children throughout state and country. We eagerly look forward to a trial on the merits.”

Steinsapir had argued for the defense in July that it does not make sense that employees would be legally required to stop the behavior of their boss.

“It would require low-level employees to confront their supervisor and call them pedophiles,” Steinsapir said.

Holly Boyer, another attorney for Robson and Safechuck, countered that the boys “were left alone in this lion’s den by the defendant’s employees. An affirmative duty to protect and to warn is correct.”

Steinsapir said evidence that has been gathered in the cases, which have not reached trial, showed that the parents had no expectation of Jackson’s employees to act as monitors.

Source: https://apnews.com/article/michael-jackson-molestation-lawsuit-robson-safechuck-fb488e1343b71629a6305d4bf8adea8c