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☆ Mr Nice guy: Elon Musk was originally going to be named after the French city where he was conceived, biography says
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk was almost called Nice, a new book by Walter Isaacson said. The name was a reference to the city in France where the billionaire was conceived, the book said. It is based on the two years the biographer spent shadowing the Tesla CEO, along with multiple interviews he conducted with associates, exes, and relatives, among others. In 2021, Elon Musk said he was selling his possessions and wanted as much capital as possible to fund a Mars colony. Representatives for Elon Musk did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment, made outside normal working hours.

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☆ Errol Musk denies berating his son after an attack at school put Elon Musk in hospital
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

His father, Errol Musk, disputed this account in a statement to Insider. The story was recounted in Walter Isaacson's new biography of Elon Musk, who's now the world's richest person . The Musk brothers said Errol Musk lashed out at his son. "No, I did not berate Elon," Errol Musk told Insider in an email. AdvertisementAdvertisementIsaacson wrote that Errol Musk moved Elon Musk from a public school to a private academy, Pretoria Boys High School, after the attack.

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☆ Elon Musk and his siblings hated one of their mom's boyfriends so much that they put tiny firecrackers in his cigarettes that exploded, book says
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The Musk siblings hated a man Maye Musk was dating so much they put firecrackers in his cigarettes. Maye Musk dated the man after she divorced Errol Musk, Walter Isaacson wrote. Isaacson's book, "Elon Musk," details the billionaire's childhood and the strained relationship between his parents. AdvertisementAdvertisementMaye Musk and Errol Musk were married for nine years and are also parents to Kimbal Musk and Tosca Musk. AdvertisementAdvertisementMaye Musk and Errol Musk didn't immediately reply to a request for comment for this story, which was made outside of normal working hours.

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☆ Elon Musk had just $4,000 when he moved to Canada and shared a room with 5 other people: book
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk left South Africa in 1989 with $4,000 from his parents, per Walter Isaacson's biography. His father, Errol Musk, "gave him $2,000 in traveler's checks" and his mother, Maye Musk, handed him $2,000. However, the biography also confirmed that Errol Musk did not actually own a mine. Isaacson said Errol Musk had swapped a light plane he owned for some emeralds. Errol Musk told Insider in an email: "I exchanged the Cessna 421 Golden Eagle for a share in the mine in 1985.

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☆ Elon Musk's ex-wife told his biographer that deep inside the Tesla CEO 'is this manchild still standing in front of his father'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Isaacson said Musk's second wife, Talulah Riley, said inside Musk is a manchild standing before his father. His newest opus, a biography of Elon Musk, was released on Tuesday. "Love and family are kind of associated with those psychological torments" for Musk, Riley told Isaacson. AdvertisementAdvertisementIsaacson himself described Errol Musk on the podcast as "psychologically problematic and difficult." Errol Musk added that he had learned about the entire incident from the headmaster of Elon Musk's school at the time.

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☆ Four takeaways from Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Paul Glader | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —“You’ll never be successful,” Errol Musk in 1989 told his 17-year-old son Elon, who was then preparing to fly from South Africa to Canada to find relatives and a college education. That’s one of the scenes Walter Isaacson paints in his 670-page biography of Elon Musk, who is now the richest person who ever lived. In a 2022 email sent to Elon Musk on Father’s Day, Errol Musk said he was freezing and lacking electricity, asking his son for money. Isaacson’s book revealed Musk had a third child (Techno Mechanicus) with the musician Grimes in 2022, and Musk confirmed the revelation Sunday. “Stop falling for weird s—.”Are robocars, an AI company and a robot called Optimus on tap?

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☆ Elon Musk 'associates love with being mean or abusive,' Grimes told biographer Walter Isaacson
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Grace Kay | Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Elon Musk "associates love with being mean or abusive" Grimes told Musk's new biographer. AdvertisementAdvertisement"When you're from a dysfunctional background or have a brain wired like his," Wilson told Isaacson, "intensity takes the place of intimacy." AdvertisementAdvertisementIn 2017, Musk's mother, Maye Musk, told Rolling Stone that Errol Musk was "a terrible human being," and in 2019, she told Harper's Bazaar that their marriage was abusive. AdvertisementAdvertisement"He has numerous minds and many fairly distinct personalities," she told Isaacson, according to the book. "When we hang out, I make sure I'm with the right Elon," she told Isaacson.

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☆ When working together at Zip2, Elon Musk had to go to the ER for stitches and a tetanus shot after his brother, Kimbal, once tore off a hunk of flesh from his hand
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Kimbal Musk bit Elon Musk and "tore off a hunk of flesh" off his hand during a fight in the 1990s. Elon Musk had to go to the emergency room for stitches and a tetanus jab. Kimbal Musk bit his brother because he thought Elon Musk was about to punch him in the face, the book said. "When we had intense stress, we just didn't notice anyone else," Kimbal Musk told Isaacson. Kimbal Musk, just over a year younger than Elon Musk, also moved in with Errol around four years later.

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☆ Elon Musk really was telling the truth by saying his father Errol never owned an emerald mine, biographer says
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Jyoti Mann | Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk's biographer set the record straight on whether Errol Musk ever owned an emerald mine. Advertisement Advertisement Watch: How Tesla CEO Elon Musk makes and spends his $19.2 billionWell, it turns out that Elon Musk was telling the truth. Walter Isaacson revealed in Elon Musk's biography, released this week, that Errol Musk never owned a mine. "Many people came to me with stolen parcels," Errol Musk told the writer. The biography also said Errol Musk's emerald business eventually caved in during the 1980s and that he subsequently lost his earnings from it.

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☆ Elon Musk's dad says he's worried the Tesla CEO might be assassinated following a report about his influence on government decisions
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-04 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Errol Musk told The Sun about his fears that Elon Musk could be assassinated. The world's richest person has previously spoken about his security concerns, such as his private jet being tracked. "It's a hit job, a shadow government-sponsored opening salvo on Elon," the elder Musk told The Sun. Errol also described The New Yorker article as "the artillery-like softening up of the enemy before the actual attack," per The Sun. But Musk's own security concerns were most apparent during the controversy over his private jet being tracked last December.

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☆ Terence Crawford Knocks Out Errol Spence in One-Sided Bout
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( Morgan Campbell | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But in Round 2, a quick exchange of punches ended with a short right jab from Crawford that put an off-balance Spence to the canvas. Spence opened the next round on offense, as if to prove the punch had not damaged him. As the punch traveled toward Crawford’s head, Crawford fired a short, sharp right hook that dropped Spence a second time. For Crawford, the result was a lesson on the value of turning defense into offense. Spence had hinted that the Crawford bout would be his last in the 147-pound welterweight division.

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☆ Terence Crawford Stands Alone at the Top of Boxing
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( Morgan Campbell | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

He had the World Boxing Organization welterweight title belt, which he has owned since 2018, draped over his left forearm, along with the green World Boxing Council belt, which he had just won from Errol Spence Jr. The other two belts, from the International Boxing Federation and the World Boxing Council, rested with members of Crawford’s entourage, who followed him to ringside for the postfight news conference. Crawford greeted Spence, whom he had just defeated by technical knockout in the ninth round of the most important boxing match of the year. Spence, his face red and swollen, and Crawford, his face unblemished, hugged and spoke with each other. Before Spence could exit, Crawford handed him the W.B.C.

Persons: Terence Crawford, Errol Spence Jr, Crawford, Spence Organizations: Mobile, Boxing, Boxing Council, International Boxing Federation, World Boxing Council Locations: Las Vegas

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☆ Forget Musk vs. Zuckerberg. Spence vs. Crawford Is the Fight of the Summer.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Jim Chairusmi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Forget Musk vs. Zuckerberg. Spence vs. Crawford Is the Fight of the Summer. Errol Spence Jr. and Terence Crawford will face off for the undisputed welterweight championship on July 29. It is the rare boxing match between two undefeated superstars in the primes of their careers. Errol Spence Jr., left, and Terence Crawford, right, will fight for the undisputed welterweight championship on July 29 in Las Vegas.

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☆ What Spence-Crawford Lacks in Trash Talk, It Makes Up in Talent
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Morgan Campbell | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Saturday’s world title fight will be his eighth. The Spence bout is his 18th consecutive world title fight. Spence’s trainer, Derrick James, traded insults with Crawford’s head coach, Brian McIntyre. James argued with the Crawford supporters who had gathered at T-Mobile Arena for the news conference. Crawford began the event pleading for calm between the two camps, and ended it exchanging R-rated barbs with the loudest member of Spence’s entourage.

Persons: Errol Spence Jr, Terence Crawford, Spence, Crawford, Derrick James, Brian McIntyre, James, McIntyre Organizations: Mobile Locations: Long, Dallas, Omaha, Neb

☆ Jehovah's Witnesses charged with child sexual abuse in Pennsylvania
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-09 | by ( Maria Sole Campinoti | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Five members of Jehovah’s Witnesses congregations were charged with child sexual abuse by the Pennsylvania’s attorney general on Friday, following a yearslong investigation into allegations of sexual abuse in the religious community. The defendants and victims were all part of Jehovah’s Witnesses congregations at the time of the alleged abuse. Balosa, from Philadelphia, has been charged with indecent assault, aggravated indecent assault, and corruption of minors, according to a criminal docket filed in Philadelphia County. He allegedly engaged in inappropriate sexual conversations with a 16-year-old boy he was mentoring within the Jehovah’s Witnesses congregation. In October, the Pennsylvania’s attorney general charged four other members of Jehovah’s Witnesses congregations with child sexual abuse, according to a news release.

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[1/4] Liquified petroleum gas vessel Zita Schulte is seen docked at the port of Corpus Christi, Texas, U.S., May 15, 2023. A hydrogen hub would require access to millions of gallons of water – a challenge in Corpus Christi which is experiencing a multi-year drought. Peter Zanoni, the city manager for Corpus Christi, said the hydrogen project, if approved, all but requires the adoption of seawater desalination. And seawater desalination plants are energy intensive and expensive to build and maintain, energy experts say. Corpus Christi first proposed seawater desalination in 2017 to supply its rapidly growing energy and petrochemicals industries.

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☆ Elon Musk's biographer saw him fly into 'demon mode.' It's hard to watch — but it also gets stuff done, he says.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Walter Isaacson said Elon Musk could be "brutal" and would go into "demon mode" at times. She told him that while it can be "unpleasant" to be around Musk when he's in demon mode, it's also the mode that "gets shit done." Isaacson said he attributed Musk's "dark streak" and his willingness to take risks to his relationship with his father, Errol Musk. Errol Musk denied he contributed to Musk's "dark streak" in an emailed statement to Insider, saying that "these days Elon and I are on fairly good terms." Tesla cofounder Martin Eberhard previously told Insider that Musk used to scream at him over press coverage on Tesla.

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☆ Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are both acting like high schoolers amid talk of cage match, Musk's dad says, calling a fight a 'no-win situation for Elon'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg appear to have agreed to fight each other. Errol Musk told The Sun it's a "no-win situation" and he's "quite worried" about the potential bout. Elon Musk's dad said the world's richest person is in a "no-win situation" with his potential fight versus Mark Zuckerberg, in an interview with British newspaper The Sun. Errol also told The Sun that he and his family are "all quite worried" about the potential fight. The 77-year-old's comments now mean both of Musk's parents have weighed in on the budding bout, after Maye Musk tweeted at people asking them to stop encouraging the CEOs to exchange blows.

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☆ What It Was Like to Work Closely With Elizabeth Holmes at Theranos
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Kiera Fields | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Patrick O'Neill worked closely with the disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes. "Seeing those people be brought to justice is a comfort," he says of Holmes going to jail. I hadn't heard about Theranos before Elizabeth Holmes approached TBWA/Chiat/Day, the ad agency where I was a creative director, in 2012. Working with Holmes closely, I felt like she had to bring herself down to earth to communicate with me. Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos story are now so well-known that when people ask me what my story is, I have to decide whether I'm going to talk about it.

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☆ The Most Disturbing Thing About Jordan Neely’s Killing
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-12 | by ( Ismail Muhammad | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

The footage’s sedate quality tells us everything we need to know about death and suffering in this society. Despite the violent death we know is coming, the sounds are those of a stultifying normalcy. As the veteran New York journalist Errol Louis wrote recently, Neely was, when he boarded that train, already effectively dead. Maybe riders sensed in Neely’s language his desperation’s logical endpoint, a willingness to cross the border separating him from others. All the agitation and alarm and fear of violence in this situation seems to have happened before the application of a chokehold.

☆ A Twitter engineer says at least 2 bodyguards accompany Elon Musk around Twitter HQ — even to the restroom
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk is accompanied around Twitter HQ by at least two bodyguards, an engineer told the BBC. The bodyguards even accompany Musk to the restroom, the engineer said. Musk's use of bodyguards inside Twitter's HQ, in San Francisco, suggested a lack of trust in the company's employees, the engineer told the BBC in a report published Sunday. Musk's father Errol said in January that he feared for his son's safety even though he was protected by "100 security guards." He was responding to Twitter user who suggested he should "add more security guards to your team."

☆ Meet Maye Musk, the Sports Illustrated cover model and the glamorous mother of one of the richest men in the world
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-04 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Despite her support for her children, Maye Musk has been a celebrity in her own right for decades. Maye Musk Maye Musk attended the Met gala with Elon Musk last year. "They followed their passions, and they all went in different directions," Maye Musk told Insider in a 2020 interview. Elon Musk, in particular, had tried his hardest in school, but only in the subjects he liked, Maye Musk said. Even at 14 years old, Maye Musk said Elon Musk had shown a passion for investing.

☆ Elon Musk increased security for his 76-year-old father Errol amid kidnapping fears, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-22 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk has escalated security for his father in South Africa over kidnapping fears, per The Sun. Errol Musk told the newspaper the upgrade was needed following four break-ins last year. His 76-year-old father, Errol, told The US Sun that his son increased his own security with more armed guards following "recent threats". Errol Musk told The Sun said he feared for his son's safety despite him being protected by "100 security guards." Elon and Errol Musk didn't immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider.

☆ Kanye West posted a bizarre Instagram rant calling Elon Musk a 'genetic hybrid,' days after once again being kicked off Twitter
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Kanye West called Elon Musk a "genetic hybrid" on Instagram Sunday. The rapper posted a picture to Instagram on Sunday that said: "Am I the only one who thinks Elon could be half Chinese?" A post shared by Ye (@kanyewest)Musk responded to Ye's comments on Twitter and said: "I take that as a compliment!" Ye then reposted Musk's comments to Instagram in a picture and captioned it: "It was meant as a compliment my friend." Ye's Twitter account was suspended for the second time on Thursday, after Musk reinstated it in November.

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