Elon Musk.
Elon Musk.
  • In 2020, Elon Musk announced that he would no longer own a home.
  • As recently as April 2022, he claimed to be couch surfing.
  • But documents from his custody dispute show that he's owned a relatively modest home in Austin for years.

Elon Musk has been posing as essentially homeless since 2020, when he publicly pledged that he would henceforth "own no house" and began offloading his various properties. As recently as April 2022, the billionaire Tesla founder claimed in an interview that he was couch surfing and didn't "even own a place right now."