Elon Musk Is Kicking Willy Wonka’s Nephew Out of His House

In 2020, Elon Musk did thing bully for Jordan Walker-Pearlman, the nephew of Willy Wonka histrion Gene Wilder. He lent him the wealth to bargain his puerility home. Four years later, Walker-Pearlman can’t support up with the payments and Musk is kicking him out.

Beloved histrion Gene Wilder bought the California location successful 1976 for $300,000. Today, its owners person listed it for merchantability astatine $12.95 million. The radical trying to merchantability are Walker-Pearlman and his woman Elizabeth Hunter. Walker-Pearlman grew up successful the location astatine the broadside of his celebrated uncle and says helium has galore treasured memories there.

Musk erstwhile lived crossed the thoroughfare from the location and a spot associated with him bought it successful 2013. Walker-Pearlman and Hunter wanted to bargain it but they didn’t person the currency truthful Musk loaned them $6.75 cardinal to bargain it connected the information that they support the psyche of the location alive.

“He could person sold it for truthful overmuch more. His sensitivity to maine can’t beryllium overstated,” Walker-Pearlman told the Wall Street Journal backmost successful 2022.

Walker-Pearlman and Hunter, however, couldn’t support up with the payments. Walker-Pearlman blamed the writer’s onslaught for the dip successful gross and said his woman was bushed of owing Musk, some virtually and figuratively. “She did not privation to proceed morally owing Elon anymore. We already beryllium him specified a spiritual debt,” helium told the Wall Street Journal connected Tuesday.

Musk’s spot moved to foreclose the home, giving the mates 90 days to vacate. They’re trying to merchantability it earlier that happens. Walker-Pearlman has been sanguine successful nationalist astir each this telling the Journal, “There’s nary calamity here. Elon Gave america a magical opportunity. I person nary complaints.”

Four years ago, Musk announced connected X (then Twitter) that helium was selling “almost all” his carnal possessions. “Will ain nary house,” helium said. “Just 1 stipulation connected sale: I ain Gene Wilder’s aged house. It cannot beryllium torn down oregon suffer immoderate of its soul.”

Why was helium selling everything? “Don’t request the cash. Devoting myself to Mars and Earth. Possession conscionable weighs you down.”

Just 1 stipulation connected sale: I ain Gene Wilder’s aged house. It cannot beryllium torn down oregon suffer immoderate its soul.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 1, 2020

Though Musk has not officially occupied a location successful the past 4 years, helium does inactive request a spot to sleep. In 2022, Grimes—the parent of 3 of Musk’s children—told Vanity Fair that the world’s richest antheral was surviving successful a squalid $40,000 location successful Los Angeles and slept connected a mattress with a spread successful it.

This was astir the aforesaid clip that Musk shared a representation of his nightstand with the world: a photograph that contained 4 cans of caffeine-free Diet Coke, a Revolutionary War-era flintlock pistol, and a reproduction of the revolver from the video crippled Deus Ex: Human Revolution. It was, successful galore ways, the bedside array of an teen boy.

My bedside array pic.twitter.com/sIdRYJcLTK

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 28, 2022

It’s beauteous that that benignant of childish caput was capable to bash thing bully for Walker-Pearlman, who got to walk the past 4 years successful a location wherever helium formed galore puerility memories.

“This is apt the closing of a precise unicorn and beauteous section of our lives. I’m not disgruntled astatine all,” helium told the Wall Street Journal.