Elon Musk’s biography reveals his brother, friends ‘hated’ Amber Heard
In a rare insight into their relationship, billionaire Elon Musk’s biography has revealed his inner circle “hated” Amber Heard.
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Elon Musk’s brother and friends “hated” Amber Heard “with a passion” when they dated — a relationship even Musk admitted could be “brutal,” according to his new biography.
The world’s richest man dated the Aquaman actress for about a year after her high-profile 2016 split from Johnny Depp, a marriage famously mired in allegations of shocking excess and domestic violence.
Musk’s “brother and friends hated [Heard] with a passion that made their distaste for Justine [his first wife] pale,” Walter Isaacson wrote in Elon Musk, according to excerpts in the Times of London.
“She was just so toxic. A nightmare,” the brother, Kimbal Musk, told Isaacson in the book published Monday.
“It’s really sad that he falls in love with these people who are really mean to him.
“They’re beautiful, no question, but they have a very dark side and Elon knows they are toxic.”
Musk’s chief of staff, Sam Teller, even compared Heard to “the Joker in Batman.”
“She didn’t have a goal or aim other than chaos. She thrives on destabilising everything,” Teller was quoted as saying.
Musk admitted that the relationship was “brutal,” according to an excerpt in theIndependent — while conceding it fit a trend of potentially picking the wrong partners.
“I’m just a fool for love. I am often a fool, but especially for love,” Musk told Isaacson.
The biographer — who shadowed the X owner for three years — even dedicates a chapter to Musk’s “Rocky Relationships.”
“Musk was not bred for domestic tranquillity. Most of his romantic relationships involve psychological turmoil,” the renowned biographer noted.
Musk’s on-again, off-again partner, the musician Grimes, also spoke of the Tesla mogul’s history of “chaotic” lovers, suggesting Heard was worse than most.
“My Dungeons and Dragons alignment would be chaotic good. Whereas Amber’s is probably chaotic evil,” the quirky Canadian songstress said.
Heard, meanwhile, told the biographer that she still loves the Space X honcho “very much,” while conceding he doesn’t always make the best choices.
“Elon loves fire, and sometimes it burns him,” the actress told Isaacson.
A representative for Heard did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
Isaacson details how the X owner spotted Heard in Machete Kills 2013, when she was already dating Depp, whom she married in 2015.
The pair eventually connected years later, after Heard and Depp split. Though it is unclear when the relationship became romantic, they went Instagram official in April 2017.
During Depp and Heard’s sensational defamation trial last spring, Heard asserted that she did not really know Musk until the 2016 Met Gala, when she claimed the Pirates of the Caribbean star “stood [her] up.”
Depp countered that the couple actually started secretly dating in 2015, the year he married.
By August 2017, rumours swirled that Heard and Musk had split, with the latter eventually confirming on Instagram that “Although Amber and I did break up, we are still friends, remain close and love one another.”
“Long distance relationships, when both partners have intense work obligations are always difficult, but who knows what the future holds,” he hinted.
The pair appeared to have resumed their relationship a couple months later, but seemed to call it quits for good in February 2018, People reported.
In addition to his relationship with Heard, Musk was married to his first wife, Justine, with whom he shares five children, from 2000 to 2008. He later married British actress Talulah Riley twice before having three children with Grimes and before welcoming employee Shivon Zilis’ twins via IVF.
Grimes, meanwhile, also claimed that “clueless” Musk took a photo of her having a C-section and sent it to close family and friends — including her own father and brother.
Grimes and Musk also got into a public spat this month when Isaacson shared a photo of Musk alongside Zilis and their twins, Strider and Azure.
“Tell Shivon to unblock me and tell Elon to let me see my son or plz respond to my lawyer,” Grimes commented on the snap.
This story originally appeared on New York Post and was reproduced with permission
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