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Bankers and advisers that backed Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk’s $44 billion bid for Twitter (TWTR) have been hit with a flood of new subpoenas from the social media site’s lawyers. Those lawyers want to know what happened in Musk’s private negotiations leading up to the now-disputed deal. On Tuesday, Twitter filed more than a dozen subpoenas in its fast-tracked lawsuit to force Musk to go through with the deal. The filings directed to Musk’s advisers and would-be lenders — including Source link

Brittney Griner in a Russian jail cell (left), Elon Musk (right)ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO/POOL/AFP via Getty Images (left) and JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images (right) Elon Musk responded to reports of a US-Russia prisoner exchange to free WNBA player Brittney Griner. “Maybe free some people in jail for weed here too?” he tweeted alongside a meme on Sunday. Griner was imprisoned in Russia after officials found vape cartridges containing hashish oil in her luggage. Elon Musk tweeted Sunday in… Source link

Elon Musk has denied a Wall Street Journal report claiming he had an affair with Nicole Shanahan, the wife of the Google co-founder Sergey Brin, accusing the outlet of running “hit pieces” on him and Tesla. The chief executive of the electric carmaker tweeted on Monday rejecting the claim that he had an affair with Shanahan as “total BS”, adding that he and Brin were still friends. Citing unidentified sources, the WSJ reported at the weekend that Musk had engaged in a brief affair with… Source link

Elon Musk allegedly fractured an old friendship with Google co-founder Sergey Brin after having an affair with his wife, Nicole Shanahan, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. Sources familiar with the situation told the WSJ that the couple filed for divorce earlier this year, citing “irreconcilable differences.” Musk and Shanahan’s affair allegedly occurred at the high-profile Art Basel event in Miami following Musk’s split with then-girlfriend Claire Boucher, also… Source link

Elon Musk and Sergey BrinWin McNamee/Getty Images, Chris Hondros/Getty Images Elon Musk reportedly dropped to his knees and begged for forgiveness from Brin after he had an affair with the Google co-founder’s wife. The incident happened at a party earlier this year, sources told the Wall Street Journal. While Brin acknowledged the apology, the two tech moguls are not speaking, WSJ reported. After Google co-founder Sergey Brin divorced his wife in January upon learning of her alleged affair with… Source link

Elon Musk had an affair with Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s wife, according to the Wall Street Journal. Brin and Nicole Shanahan divorced in January of this year, shortly after Brin learned of the affair, the report states.  Brin, a longtime friend of Musk, has pulled investments from the Tesla CEO’s various companies in recent months.  … Source link

The affair has led to Brin and Musk’s friendship to end.Kelly Sullivan, Dimitrios Kambouris via Getty Images Elon Musk had an affair with Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s wife, according to the Wall Street Journal. Brin and Nicole Shanahan divorced in January of this year, shortly after Brin learned of the affair, the report states. Brin, a longtime friend of Musk, has pulled investments from the Tesla CEO’s various companies in recent months. Elon Musk was reportedly involved in a romantic… Source link

Elon Musk wanted to entrust charitable distribution of his fortune to a 30-something former pro gambler with no experience in philanthropy, according to a winding narrative published Saturday by The Wall Street Journal. Late last year, Musk increasingly relied on advice from 34-year-old Igor Kurganov, a self-described college dropout who had a multimillion-dollar career in professional gambling years before he met Musk. The Journal reported that Kurganov is currently not with Musk’s… Source link

Elon Musk could soon face off against Twitter in a Delaware court over whether he should be forced to buy the social media company. Musk’s excuse for backing out? Bots. Specifically, how many bots run rampant on Twitter. In trying to back out of the $44 billion deal, Musk has asserted that Twitter hasn’t provided enough data on the platform’s number of bots — automated accounts that can be benign but can also be used for nefarious purposes like bilking users out of their cash through… Source link

Elon Musk “doesn’t have a leg to stand on” in what could become a long courtroom battle with Twitter (TWRT), says one veteran stock analyst. “After a careful reading of Twitter’s lawsuit against Elon Musk, we flipped our view. We were formally skeptical about Twitter, now we’re skeptical about Elon’s position,” Barton Crockett of Rosenblatt Securities told Yahoo Finance Live. Twitter filed a suit in Delaware against Musk earlier this week after the CEO of Tesla (TSLA) Source link