Back in July, someone started spreading rumors about a possible hookup between Tesla-founder and billionaire Elon Musk and Amber Heard. As we quickly learned, Elon and Amber had been friends for a few years, and they were in Florida around the same time, and maybe/possibly spent some alone-time together. There were also reports that Elon was wining and dining Amber in LA too. Elon is in the middle of divorcing Talulah Riley, and he’s already gone through one other divorce, in which he made his wife sign a “postnup” limiting the amount of money she could receive when they eventually divorced. My point is that while Elon is a billionaire, he seems pretty cheap when it comes to the ladies.
Another point: I didn’t care for the way Elon Musk’s name was invoked in the middle of Amber Heard’s announcement that she was donating her entire divorce settlement to charity. The anti-Amber theory seemed to be “Amber hooked herself another rich guy, so what does she need $7 million?” Again, Elon is famously cheap. He’s not the kind of man to shower a woman with gifts and cash. And even if he was that type of man, the whole “Amber has Elon on the hook” is sort of gross in this particular context. Especially since it seems like she’s been friendzoning him for four years. According to THR:
Newly single Amber Heard recently has been seen about town with a new pal — Elon Musk. Turns out it was a friendship in the making for four years, ever since the Tesla founder nearly met Johnny Depp’s now former wife while doing a cameo in Robert Rodriguez’s 2013 film Machete Kills, in which Heard had a role (as Miss San Antonio). Musk, 45, didn’t have a scene with Heard, 30, but apparently became infatuated anyway, according to a source close to the set, and began sending emails to Rodriguez and others — some made available to THR through a confidential source — asking him to set up a rendezvous.
“If there is a party or event with Amber, I’d be interested in meeting her just out of curiosity,” Musk wrote. “Allegedly, she is a fan of George Orwell and Ayn Rand … most unusual.”
Rodriguez and team did indeed set up a dinner, but Heard — who was dating Depp at the time — didn’t show, leading Musk to try again. “Can you send her a note saying I would like to get together for lunch in LA?” he emailed the Rodriguez team again. “Am not angling for a date. I know she’s in a long-term relationship, but … Amber just seems like an interesting person to meet.”
Despite recent reports that the two have been spending a lot of time together, a source close to Musk contends that it’s nothing romantic: “As for now, they are just friends.”
Again, it sounds less like Amber has Elon on the hook and more like he’s slightly infatuated with her and she’s friendzoning him. Perhaps Amber has read Justine Musk’s Marie Claire essay and Amber wants no part of it. Coming out of the marriage to Johnny Depp, I do not blame her. She probably just wants to spend time with her friends, work and forget about dating for a while. But Elon Musk will likely try to court her all the same. We’ll only know that Amber is into it when she dyes her hair platinum (Elon has a thing for extreme blondes).
Photos courtesy of WENN.
She is an Ayn Rand fan? Yikes..
Ayn Rand, unsurprisingly, seems to be a much-loved writer with Hollywood. And yes, yikes. Terrible writer, worse thinker and human being.
LMAO.
I was too at 16/17. Just novelty. And Orwell too. I thought it was normal to read those books around that age… if nothing else but a primer to human psychology.
That was exactly what I thought when I read that. And Elon thinks it’s a good thing. Of course he does.
Yikes and double yikes.
I just read the Marie Claire article…
Triple yikes. Crush for Musk is officially dead and buried.
BWAHAHAHHA true Story I remember when I was Online dating , Besides Republicans my second Automatic NO THANKS was when the guy Listed Ayn Rand or Atlas Shrugged as a Fave I would send those to the Block thing with THE ABSOLUTE QUICKNESS
Smart cookie!
Ayn Rand gives permission to celebrities to be narcissists. She actually got her start in film.
I remember when I was reading Ayn Rand in high school and this cute boy in my philosophy class came and swiped it right out of my hands and into the trash can. We dated on and off for years after that moment.
This has nothing to do with amber Heard – but even cheap billionaires end up paying out millions in divorces. It’s ‘cheap’ by billionaire standards…but I mean…still a lot of $$
He sits on the board for somewhere I used to work and he has been very very (very!) generous – so not sure where this ‘he is famously cheap’ comes from?
Exactly what I was thinking. His first ex-wife lives in a mega-million $ house and has a staff, so even though she didn’t get billions, she’s still a member of the 1% from the settlement she received.
Yes, @ladysussex, the house in the background of her photos – is that her house? If that is her house and she has staff to help her with the kids…well, hhmm. Maybe she should not be trashing the father of her 5 children in public. It affects the kids, even if they don’t hear about it immediately. That is a serious lapse in judgment. She sounds equally as ambitious as he is, she wants to pop out 6 kids and author a library of books at the same time? And then put him down for his ambition? Oh, please.
I know this thread is from yesterday, but I can’t not comment. The ex is rich because she managed to get round the post-nup on a technicality. That took literally years in court. Without it, she would’ve been left with child support and a house – a house she could ill afford once the child support ran out. And why trash working moms? So she wrote three books in nine years of marriage, so what. You can do that from home, write a few hours per day, and it’s not like she was super productive. “A library of books”, really!
She looks so much like both of his ex wives. Also his second wife claims he really wined and dined her. So I don’t think he’s cheap at all. With that said I really hope she doesn’t fall for it, she has a pretty great career. He seems like an interesting guy to know, but not to date or marry.
Yep. He seems to be very controlling and possessive. An interesting guy though……just interesting to talk to and be around. I wouldn’t want to marry him.
His entire family seems really interesting. His mom alone would be worth risking the emotional distress of dating Elon if that was the only way one could meet her.
LOL, LAK. His mom does seem interesting–but I just read an interview with her, where I rolled my eyes. Basically she said she was the reason her sons were so smart/successful today, because she basically had to work all the time and they learned to entertain themselves…….which is a far cry from being the parent that showed your kid how to build a computer or whatever. Not saying she was a terrible mom, but literally she said that because she worked all the time and that they had to entertain themselves, she was the reason they were successful. which is weird.
But yea…..he seems to want a woman who will ask “how high?” when he says “jump”. Which is sad to me, because I secretly find him kind of sexy. He seems like he’d be really intense. I read some thing that when he met Tallulah Riley, apparently all he did was talk about rocket ships.
I perfected the rictus, smiley face when dating a guy who was into samurai sword fighting. He was interesting in other areas, BUT when he wanted to talk about the Samurai thing, he could go on for hours.
I took it to be my stepford wife training should i be so foolish in the future.
Great career?
His previous two wives were actually brunettes but Musk made them color their hair. His first wife put it in detail in a article. Made her loose weight and go as blond as she could go. He changes the woman into his ideal. Guess it goes with his mind in an odd way of wanting to “upgrade” what is current.
I hope this doesn’t sound victim blaming but I hope she takes this time to heal, go to therapy and learn the red flags of abusive relationships (this guy sounds emotionally abusive at minimum). I hope she just has peace and happiness in the future.
I agree with you! Previous articles reveal that she started documenting his (JD) abuse before they were even married. I hope she puts her love life on pause for a while to really reflect and get some help dealing with those issues so that she doesn’t repeat these patterns of consigning herself to a life of abuse.
oh come on Elon you could easily meet interesting people if that was what you are looking for.
guys like him are good with and important for technological progress but certainly not with people.
He is pretty good with people. Most tech entrepreneurs are.
Jobs was hated, Zuckerberg not well liked. Would dare to say its opposite.
THR is a trashy gossip rag now ?
I’m saying. When did they start doing write ups like this? They sound like People mag when I thought they were an industry mag.
That’s what I was going to comment! How come it is ok to share personal emails on something that is not important for the public to know? This isn’t politics, this isn’t someone doing something illegal, I mean… Why? They are just exploiting gossip in a level I was not really expecting from them.
THR has been a “trashy gossip rag” ever since Janice Min took over a few years ago.
Having dated a Russian, yeah, there is no wining and dining and showering with gifts. Maybe a cigar to share at the end of the night, but the rubles stay in the matroyshka.
Elon Musk is South African…but maybe we are discussing someone else?
Ive dated Russians and its true but Elon isn’t Russian
Nah, she’s not his type – he like Brunettes that he then coerces into becoming blonds doesn’t he?
Yeah seems like he has major control issues and is emotionally abusive. Gets naturally brunette girls and makes them bleach their hair. Creep.
“Makes them?” How does he make them? Does he hold a gun to their head? Do they have agency over their actions or don’t they?
i don’t care for this guy, but to me it sounds like he and his ex-wife had far bigger problems than just musk being an ass. they went through the pain of losing a child and were dealing with it in different ways, blaming each other for ‘not getting it’. this is the sort of thing that splits up lots of couples.
I agree. From what I remember of the article….she wanted to talk about it, and he completely shut down. And they had a hard time conceiving to begin with. I’m guessing both i.e. the loss of their baby and him being controlling by nature, was too much.
Why shouldn’t Elon Musk be cheap with his ladies when getting a divorce? He earned his money on his own, they were not involved, so why should he have to give it to them?
I wonder if meeting Amber Heard played a role in Musk and Talulah Riley getting a divorce in 2012? Musk’s relationship with Riley is so messy – they got married in 2010, then divorced in 2012, then remarried in 2013, then filed for divorce in 2014 but withdrew the filing in 2015, then filed again earlier this year. It’s a bit ridiculous.
Didn’t his first wife marry him before he earned his money though? She was involved with his life/ she was involved with his money.
Nope. He was very, very wealthy when she married him. The article that is linked above says that he was acquiring PayPal (his 2nd or 3rd company during their engagement and was worth at least 100 million.
She also says that they met in college and, “After graduation, he’d moved to Silicon Valley. He was sharing an apartment in Mountain View with three roommates and building his first dot-com company, Zip2. I soon flew out for the first of many visits.” Sure, they were not yet married, but they were together.
He had 5 living sons with his first wife, who started dating him when they were both penniless college students. They lost their first child at 10 weeks old. I think bearing a man 6 kids and supporting him through his creating all that wealth should entitle a wife to a decent chunk, frankly. And that isn’t sexist – I think Halle Berry should pony up her child support, too, and same with gay couples who have kids.
Child support and spousal support/a payout are two different things. Of course he should pay for his kids. But no, no one deserves part of their spouses’ money. He paid for her while they were married, she doesn’t deserve more after the marriage has ended. If you left a job (either got fired or quit), the job wouldn’t continue to pay you.
PS I would say the same thing if a woman were a billionaire and the man were trying to get money in a divorce. In fact, thinking about it from the point of view of myself, a woman, having to give away her money in a divorce is why I think the way I do about settlements and spousal support.
Maybe Elon is interested in meeting women who aren’t just interested in his money? That doesn’t make him cheap.
He’s open-sourced Tesla’s patents. He potentially is giving away a lot of money and betting on innovators. It’s the opposite of being a control freak in the business world. He’s a different flavour of guy than your usual tabloid fodder.
I cannot call it on this one, I am going to keep watching. I cannot say nor predict if Amber goes there w/Eldon. Some folks like to be IN relationships, they like keeping a love interest and want/need the attention constantly. shrugs–
she is too pretty for him in my opinion and should date a hunk now.
I’ve seen folks calling Eldon cheap, I’m not believing that one, he has donated a bunch of money to his specific causes.
I can see why he would be infatuated with her. I think she’s quite beautiful.
I can’t, not particularly. I imagine there are tons of gorgeous, indistinguishable talentless blondes wanting to be with him.
Thanks for posting the link to Justine Musk’s article, it’s really good and very well written.
Anyone else wondering how they got a hold of Richard Rodriguez’s personal emails…?
I suppose he must’ve shared them with somebody, which is a very shady thing to do. (Or else he’s the source himself, though I doubt that)
This is pure speculation but maybe he forwarded the emails to Amber, just so she would know this guy had some interest in her. And someone from her camp, or she herself (again, I doubt that), got a hold of them and released them for some reason. Either just some monetary payment from the tabloids, or maybe there’s some agenda.
Anyway it surprises me that personal emails between these two men would come out.