Elon Musk’s filmmaking child sister mentioned she has been overcharged by predators who “assumes my eldest brother pays for the whole lot,” she informed the Day by day Mail.
“However he doesn’t,” added Tosca Musk, the 48-year-old sibling of the world’s richest individual.
Tosca, who works as a filmmaker and government producer, mentioned she just lately bought hit with a invoice inflated by $20,000 whereas scouting areas for a brand new film.
“The situation was going to price $5,000, however once they heard my identify and assumed we had been wealthy, they determined to cost us $25,000,” Tosca informed The Mail.
“That’s not precisely honest, is it?” she queried whereas shaking her head, noting that folks usually falsely assume the Musks had been born welathy.
“Ah, no,” Tosca mentioned.
In reality, Elon Musk — the 51-year-old proprietor of Twitter and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX who’s value $233 billion, in keeping with the Bloomberg Billionaires Index — is completely self made.
When requested if Musk helps her out financially in any capability, Tosca mentioned “it’s a double-edged sword for me to say whether or not my brother has helped in any means.”
She continued: “If I say no, then folks will say he doesn’t help me in any respect and if I say sure, they’ll suppose he paid for the whole lot.”
As for folks wanting to make use of her to get nearer to her brother — which she says “occurs on a regular basis” — Tosca informed The Mail that she has “a finely-tuned bullsh-t-ometer so I don’t let it get that far and the reply is all the time ‘no.’”
Tosca is the youngest of three Musk siblings. Her different brother, Kimbal, 50, is a chef and restauranteur.
The three had been raised in South Africa by their mom, Maye.
Maye Musk, 75, detailed her expertise as a single mom who fled an abusive marriage and struggled financially in her 2019 bestselling memoir, titled “A Girl Makes A Plan.”
Nonetheless, she raised three uber-successful youngsters.
Tosca co-founded Passionflix in 2017. The streaming service is just like Netflix, although solely gives romance motion pictures.
“Though romance is the No. 1-selling style on the earth, we couldn’t get current TV networks or studios considering these tales in any respect. So, we simply determined to create our personal streaming platform as an alternative,” Tosca informed The Mail.
She has amassed a internet value of $170 million due to her enterprise, and famous how her mom nonetheless tries to accompany Tosca to all of her and her brothers’ occasions.
Kimbal has made a reputation for himself within the culinary world for his food-centered ventures targeted on discovering an answer to America’s weight problems.
He’s additionally on the Tesla board of administrators. He was an early investor within the carmaker and is value about $700 million, although that quantity is dwarfed by his brother’s reported multibillion-dollar fortune.
Tosca informed The Mail that she and her brothers realized to have a robust work ethic from their mom, who had 5 jobs in 1979 to help her youngsters — who the place 5, seven and eight on the time.
“There’s a notion that we had a lot cash rising up, however that isn’t the reality,” Tosca mentioned. “After my dad and mom divorced, my mum and brothers and I had been collectively and we didn’t have any cash.”
In her memoir, Maye described her marriage to her youngsters’s father, Errol Musk, as bodily abusive.
“Whereas there have been some actually, actually horrible instances, I attempt to not deal with these as a result of that doesn’t get you wherever. I had an unimaginable mom who took care of me, and nice brothers,” Tosca informed The Mail.
In the meantime, Errol has condemned his ex-wife’s claims of home abuse as “ridiculous, absurd and made up,” the outlet reported.
Maye now works as a mannequin, and even graced the duvet of Sports activities Illustrated Swim at age 74. She’s value an estimated $45 million.