00:00Elon Musk once said he'd rather stick a fork in his hand than talk about his personal life,
00:04then did exactly that. This wasn't today's Elon. Back in 2010, he wasn't the world's richest man.
00:10He was a newly divorced, stressed out billionaire just trying to save Tesla and SpaceX. When rumors
00:15hit that he'd abandoned his wife for a young actress, he went against everything he stood
00:19for and spoke up. In a rare essay, Musk said it was all false. He met Tallulah Riley after the
00:25marriage ended and offered his ex-wife an $80 million post-tax settlement, in which she declined,
00:30asking for equity. He was covering $170,000 a month in legal bills, mostly going to her lawyers,
00:36and nearly all his cash was already poured into saving Tesla from collapse. This wasn't gossip,
00:41it was damage control. Before he was trolling Twitter or running six companies, Musk was just
00:45trying to survive and defend his name. Does the world have a right to personal answers from public
00:50figures? Follow at Benzinga for more business stories that hit deeper than the headlines.
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