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By Giulia Carbonaro
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Maye Musk offered a rare glimpse into his son Elon Musk’s private life, revealing that his house in Boca Chica, Texas, had “no food in the fridge” and only “one towel” in the bathroom when she visited it.
“There is no food in the fridge. The garage where I slept is on the right. The shower only has one towel so I left it for Elon. That was okay with me,” Maye Musk wrote on X, responding to a picture of the apartment’s living room and kitchen shared by tech enthusiast Dima Zeniuk on the social media platform.
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“When I was a child, I’d spend three weeks in the Kalahari Desert without showering. Many times. There was no water. I think my parents prepared me for this luxury,” she added, closing her post with a laughing emoji.
The photo and Maye Musk’s response sparked criticism against the Tesla founder and CEO, whom social media users judged harshly for letting his mother sleep in his garage.
Why Is Musk Living In Apparently Humble Conditions?
Elon Musk, the world’s richest person with a net worth of $838.9 billion, according to Forbes, has his primary residence in Boca Chica, Texas, according to reports.
He previously owned an impressive real estate portfolio rivaling those of other billionaires, but he sold his seven large-scale homes in exchange for “freedom,” as he told a social media user on X in 2020. That is when he vowed to “own no house” and sell “almost all physical possessions.”
His only request, he wrote, was that a 2,800-square-foot home with five bedrooms and four bathrooms once owned by Hollywood legend Gene Wilder should not be torn down “or lose any [of] its soul.” The home was sold back to Wilder’s family for $7 million.
The combined asking prices for the seven homes, six of which were in the Los Angeles area, was over $100 million, according to Architectural Digest.
After selling his mansions, Musk moved into a compact tiny home in Boca Chica, Texas, the state where Musk recently relocated the headquarters of both SpaceX and Tesla.
What Do We Know About Where Elon Musk Lives?
Reporting by the New York Times revealed that the property in Boca Chica is a “Boxabl Casita”—a foldable, 20-foot-by-20-foot prefabricated home made by housing startup Boxabl.
According to Chron.com, the home Musk is living in was set up like a studio apartment, with one large room partitioned into a living room and bedroom area, a fully equipped kitchen, and a bathroom with a tub shower.
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In 2021, the billionaire wrote in a post on X that his primary home was “literally a ~$50k house in Boca Chica/Starbase that I rent from SpaceX. It’s kinda awesome though,” he wrote.
“Only house I own is the event house in the Bay Area. If I sold it, the house would see less use, unless bought by a big family, which might happen some day,” he added.
A picture of the home—the same shared by Zeniuk on Tuesday—was first posted on X by Musk’s biographer Walter Isaacson in 2023. In the post, he wrote, ahead of the biography’s publication: “In 2020, Musk decided to sell his five grand houses and to have as his primary residence this spartan two-bedroom house in Boca Chica, TX, where we would meet and he would sit at this wood table and make phone calls.”
In 2022, however, Musk reportedly purchased a $6 million, 6,900-square-foot, six-bedroom mansion in an upscale cul-de-sac in West Lake Hills, Texas, where it is one of four homes, as reported by the New York Times.
Residents were quickly put off by their new neighbor, especially his decision to erect a 16-foot chain-link fence and install outward-facing security cameras around the property without obtaining the proper permits.
In April last year, Musk’s clashing with his neighbors became public when the billionaire lost his appeal to keep the much-debated fence and gate around his property. But in July of the same year, the West Lake Hills City Council voted to allow Elon Musk to keep most of the fence and the gate, as long as he made changes to bring them into compliance with local rules.
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