Elon Musk’s alleged drug use led Larry Ellison to invite the guy billionaire to dry out on the Oracle co-founder’s Hawaii estate, according to 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 firms includes SpaceX and the social media platform X, has acknowledged using ketamine to treat depression.
But he also has reportedly popped recreational drugs corresponding 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 bunch of tens of millions of dollars value of shares — which is significantly greater than directors at other publicly traded firms.
Musk has created a culture around him wherein friends and board members are expected to eat drugs with him out of fear that not doing so would upset the CEO, according to The Journal.
The Post has sought comment from Ellison, Musk and Tesla’s board.
Ellison, who owns many 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, according to the Journal.
Before Musk took the drug, his personal bodyguards allegedly asked people to leave the ground of the home for privacy.
Musk has also attended drug-fueled parties together 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 use cocaine, ecstasy, LSD and magic mushrooms.
In response, Musk wrote on X: “Not even trace quantities were found of any drugs or alcohol. @WSJ will not be fit to line a parrot cage for bird [poop emoji].”
He later wrote: “If drugs actually helped improve my net productivity over time, I’d 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 due to the necessities of SpaceX being a NASA contractor.