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Tesla spent about $4.8 million on Elon Musk's security in 2025, up from $2.8 million the year before, according to an SEC filing.

Billionaire businessman Elon Musk arrives for a town hall wearing a cheesehead hat at the KI Convention Center on March 30, 2025 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The town hall is being held in front of the state’s high-profile Supreme Court election between Circuit Court Judge Brad Schimel,

SpaceX has said it will make at least a portion of its new stock available to retail investors at pre-IPO pricing.

In February 2025, Ashley St. Clair announced that she and Elon Musk share a son, whose name was later confirmed to be Romulus

The billionaire businessman criticized director Christopher Nolan for casting the "Black Panther" actress in "The Odyssey."

SpaceX, a leader in rocket launches, lost billions of dollars in recent years after a merger with Musk's artificial intelligence venture, xAI.