Elon Musk’s alleged drug use led Larry Ellison to ask the man billionaire to dry out on the Oracle co-founder’s Hawaii estate, in line with a report.
Ellison, a Tesla board member, reached out to the Tesla boss within the winter of 2022 as concerns grew from others on the board about Musk’s behavior, the Wall Street Journal reported over the weekend.
Musk, whose portfolio of corporations includes SpaceX and the social media platform X, has acknowledged using ketamine to treat depression.
But he also has reportedly popped recreational drugs equivalent to LSD and ecstasy with members of Tesla’s board, including enterprise capitalists Steve Jurvetson and Antonio Gracias.
Jurvetson and Gracias are amongst eight members of the board who’ve personal relationships with Musk and have amassed a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of dollars price of shares — which is significantly greater than directors at other publicly traded corporations.
Musk has created a culture around him by which friends and board members are expected to devour drugs with him out of fear that not doing so would upset the CEO, in line with The Journal.
The Post has sought comment from Ellison, Musk and Tesla’s board.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s drug use was known to members of Tesla’s board, in line with a report. AFP via Getty Images
Ellison, who owns a lot of the Hawaiian island of Lana’i, has hosted his “very close friend” Musk on quite a few occasions, the Journal reported.
At across the time that Ellison prolonged his invite to Musk, he attended a celebration in Hollywood Hills where he consumed a liquid type of ecstasy from a water bottle, in line with the Journal.
Before Musk took the drug, his personal bodyguards allegedly asked people to depart the ground of the home for privacy.
Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle and a director at Tesla, invited Musk to his Hawaii home to dry out, in line with a report. Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP
Musk has also attended drug-fueled parties along with his brother Kimbal, one other Tesla board member, at Hotel El Ganzo in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico, the Journal reported.
Last month, the Journal reported that Musk was known to make use of cocaine, ecstasy, LSD and magic mushrooms.
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In response, Musk wrote on X: “Not even trace quantities were found of any drugs or alcohol. @WSJ shouldn’t be fit to line a parrot cage for bird [poop emoji].”
Ellison has bought up a majority of the Hawaiian island of Lana’i (seen above in 2008). AP
Musk has also consumed drugs with one other Tesla board member, Steve Jurvetson (seen left with wife Genevieve Jurvetson in 2020). Getty Images
He later wrote: “If drugs actually helped improve my net productivity over time, I might definitely take them!”
In 2018, Musk smoked marijuana while being interviewed on Joe Rogan’s podcast — prompting the federal government to subject him to random drug testing attributable to the necessities of SpaceX being a NASA contractor.