He lent him the money to buy his childhood home.
Four years later, Walker-Pearlman cant keep up with the payments and Musk is kicking him out.
Beloved actor Gene Wilder bought the California home in 1976 for $300,000.
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Today, its owners have listed it for sale at $12.95 million.
The people trying to sell are Walker-Pearlman and his wife Elizabeth Hunter.
Musk once lived across the street from the home and a trust associated with him bought it in 2013.
He could have sold it for so much more.
His sensitivity to me cant be overstated, Walker-Pearlmantold the Wall Street Journal back in 2022.
Walker-Pearlman and Hunter, however, couldnt keep up with the payments.
She did not want to continue morally owing Elon anymore.
We already owe him such a spiritual debt, he told the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.
Musks trust moved to foreclose the home, giving the couple 90 days to vacate.
Theyre trying to sell it before that happens.
Walker-Pearlman has been sanguine in public about all this telling the Journal, Theres no tragedy here.
Elon Gave us a magical opportunity.
I have no complaints.
Will own no house, he said.
Just one stipulation on sale: I own Gene Wilders old house.
It cannot be torn down or lose any of its soul.
Why was he selling everything?
Dont need the cash.
Devoting myself to Mars and Earth.
Possession just weighs you down.
Just one stipulation on sale: I own Gene Wilders old house.
It cannot be torn down or lose any its soul.
It was, in many ways, the bedside table of an adolescent boy.
This is likely the closing of a very unicorn and beautiful chapter of our lives.
Im not disgruntled at all, he told the Wall Street Journal.
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