Elon Musk’s Most Controversial Moments Through the Years: Affair Rumors, Kid Drama, Twitter War and More

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorMega-billionaire Elon Musk sold share of Tesla worth about $6.9 billion on Aug. 5, according to regulatory filings.

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Twitter has set a Sept. 13 date for a special meeting of shareholders to vote on its sale to Elon Musk. It’s the month before a trial set for October in Delaware Chancery Court where the social media company hopes to force the billionaire Tesla founder to actually follow through with his $44 billion purchase agreement.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorTwitter, which is fighting to extract billions from Elon Musk after he said he wanted to walk away from his $44 billion deal to buy the social network, recorded costs of $33.1 million for the second quarter related to the now-in-limbo merger.Twitter revealed the expenses in its 10-Q filing Tuesday with the SEC. Other than the $33.1 million in “transaction expenses” associated with Musk’s proposed takeover, “the terms of the Merger Agreement did not impact the Company’s consolidated financial statements,” the company said.Twitter has sued sued Musk, demanding that the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX make good on his $44 billion acquisition agreement.

Things are getting messy in Silicon Valley!

Twitter is attributing their recent earnings drop to their current legal battle with Elon Musk.

and later back out of acquiring) the social media site.The San Francisco company said it took in $1.18 billion in revenue for the three months ended June 30, down 1% from the $1.19 billion in Q2 2021. The total was 10.6% below the $1.32 billion forecast by Wall Street analysts, according to Yahoo Finance.Twitter posted a net loss of $270 million, or 35 cents per share, reversing a profit of $65.6 million, or 8 cents per share last year.

Twittter swung to a loss in the June quarter and revenue was below Wall Street forecasts of Wall Street, blaming advertising industry headwinds and uncertainty related to the pending acquisition of Twitter by an affiliate of Elon Musk.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorTwitter revenue for the June 2022 quarter came in short of Wall Street estimates — with the company in part blaming Elon Musk’s attempt to back out of his acquisition deal. The social network also swung to a net loss in the period.Q2 revenue totaled $1.18 billion, down 1% year-over-year.

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Errol Musk, has been asked to donate his sperm to several South American women — just days after he confirmed that he squired a secret second lovechild with his own stepdaughter. The lusty patriarch, 76, says his seed is currently coveted by a company in Colombia because it contains the same genius genes that made the world’s richest man. “I’ve got a company who want me to donate sperm to impregnate high-class women,” Errol claimed in the Sun.

Round one to Twitter. Delaware Chancery Court Chief Judge Kathaleen McCormick has set a five-day trial in October for Twitter’s lawsuit against Elon Musk. Twitter had asked for an expedited four-day trial in September, while Musk’s attorneys wanted a February date.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorThe Delaware Court of Chancery ruled in Twitter’s favor Tuesday in the social network’s legal fight with Elon Musk, setting an October 2022 trial date for the company’s case against the billionaire.Twitter last week filed suit against Musk, seeking to force the mega-billionaire complete his $44 billion buyout agreement. That came after Musk on July 8 told Twitter he wanted to nix the deal over his suspicions that Twitter has more spam and bot accounts than it acknowledges.