Elon Musk’s rise to become the world’s richest man has been fueled by a wild combination, according to a new book: a penchant for “toxic” girlfriends like Amber Heard, battles with everyone from his brother to employees, an appetite for incredible risk and a love of game playing — both the video variety and the emotional kind.
“I’m just wired for war, basically,” Elon told biographer Walter Isaacson for the 688-page book “Elon Musk,” which hit stores Tuesday.
The ghost of Elon’s notorious father, Errol — whom he once called “evil” and relentlessly abusive — also haunts the pages.
Apparently, Errol and Heard — who dated Elon for about a year after her high-profile 2016 split from Johnny Depp — have something in common.
“[Amber] was just so toxic,” Kimbal Musk, Elon’s younger brother, says in the book. “A nightmare. She really is a very good actress, so she will say things that you’re like, ‘Wow, maybe she’s telling you the truth’ but she isn’t. The way she can create reality reminds me of my dad.”
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Errol, now 77, chose Father’s Day 2022 to tell Elon that he’d fathered a second child with former stepdaughter Jana Bezuidenhout — one of numerous “evil” moves made in his life, according to his sons.
The book is rife with descriptions of how “socially awkward” Elon, who self-diagnosed himself with Asperger’s syndrome, himself lacks empathy and bears similarities to his father, telling both staffers and girlfriends that they are “stupid” or “idiots” when under stress.
Still, he appears to be most scarred not by his rough childhood but the rejection of his transgender daughter.
The 19-year-old, who is a fraternal twin to brother Griffin, transitioned to female in 2020 and legally changed her name to Vivian Jenna Wilson.
“I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form,” she told a court in 2022.
Though Musk publicly brushed off Vivian’s spurning of him by quipping, “Can’t win them all,” one of his ex-girlfriends, the singer Grimes, told Isaacson that the girl’s rejection kills Elon.
“He loves Jenna so much and truly accepts her,” Grimes says in the book. “I’ve never seen him as heartbroken about anything. I know he’d do anything to be able to see her or have her, like, accept him again.”The twins, Vivian and Griffin, are the oldest of Elon’s 10 living children and, along with 17-year-old triplets Kai, Saxon, and Damian, are from his first marriage, to Justine Musk. Most of the older kids are described as being brilliant in math and science. The former couple’s first son, Nevada Alexander Musk, died of sudden infant death syndrome at only 10 weeks old in 2002.
Source: https://nypost.com/2023/09/12/drama-magnet-elon-musks-life-of-toxic-women-and-chaos/
