Elon Musk’s mother is shedding new light on the almost trillionaire’s simple living habits, which include a bare fridge and just one towel.
Maye Musk’s disclosure about her son’s lifestyle comes as Forbes released its latest World Billionaires List.
The list reveals that the SpaceX founder, 54, has amassed a colossal fortune, which currently stands at $839bn, as much as the 63 “poorest” billionaires on the list combined.
His mother was responding to a tweet that apparently showed her son’s living quarters in Boca Chica, the South Texas community that is home to SpaceX’s Starbase launch site.
“There is no food in the fridge. The garage where I slept is on the right,” she wrote on X. “The shower only has one towel so I left it for Elon. That was okay with me.”
She added that growing up in the Kalahari Desert, she would go for weeks without showering. In a previous interview, Musk said that his home was valued at around $45,000.
The original tweet that Maye Musk was responding to showed a kitchen and living room with a few items. “Elon Musk’s house in Boca Chica, Texas. No fancy things, only what’s essential for living,” the post read.
Behind Musk in the number one slot on Forbes‘ list are the tech and media moguls Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, and Mark Zuckerberg, respectively.
The magazine noted that the year to March 1, 2026, was “one of the best years for billionaire wealth creation ever,” reporting that 390 newcomers had been added to its list, with Dr. Dre, Beyonce and Roger Federer among the latest celebrity names to join the elite, along with a raft of AI entrepreneurs.
The richest woman in the world, for the second year running, is Walmart heiress Alice Walton, who is worth an estimated $134 billion.
Meanwhile, Musk’s former boss, President Donald Trump, has a net worth of $6.5 billion after he earned an estimated $1.4 billion in his first year back in the Oval Office, according to Forbes’s latest World Billionaires List.
Trump’s moves into the emerging cryptocurrency sector appear to be behind the surge, the publication reports, noting that the president earned an estimated $550 million from sales of crypto tokens issued by World Liberty Financial, his family’s coin venture, which it first launched in September 2024.
Forbes also notes that Trump benefited last year from being let off the hook for the $517 million he had been ordered to pay in a New York civil fraud case.
An appeals court’s decision in the president’s favor wiped a significant liability from his books – at least while New York Attorney General Letitia James mounts her challenge to the ruling.
