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Elon Musk Parties on Luxury Yacht in Greece After Twitter Sues Him to Enforce $44 Billion Deal
Elon Musk spent time in Mykonos, Greece one week after filing to back out of purchasing Twitter
By Tommy McArdle July 18, 2022 08:52 AM
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO, 51, was spotted relaxing on a luxury yacht moored off the coast of Mykonos, Greece, on Sunday.
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Musk’s new spat with Trump, 76, started during a July 9 political rally in Alaska, when Trump spoke about the billionaire’s claim that he’d recently voted for a Republican for the first time, according to The Washington Post.
“He said the other day, ‘Oh, I’ve never voted for a Republican.’ I said, ‘I didn’t know that,'” Trump said at the rally. “He told me he voted for me, so he’s another bull— artist.”
Musk responded to Trump’s criticism via Twitter in a reply to a Breitbart News tweet that shared Trump’s comments.
“I don’t hate the man, but it’s time for Trump to hang up his hat & sail into the sunset,” wrote Musk. “Dems should also call off the attack – don’t make it so that Trump’s only way to survive is to regain the Presidency.”
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Trump replied on Truth Social that Musk “should focus on getting himself out of the Twitter mess because he could owe $44 billion for something that’s perhaps worthless.”
In a further post, Trump mulled about why Musk was “allowed to break the $15 million stock purchase barrier on Twitter without any reporting?”
Elon Musk arrived in Mykonos on a yacht with friends and in the company of a beautiful brunette out in the Greek sunshine.
Credit: BACKGRID
“That is a very serious breach! Have fun Elon and @jack, go to it!” he wrote, bringing Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey into the conversation.
After Musk filed to terminate his $44 billion deal to purchase Twitter on July 8, the social media company’s board said it planned to sue him to make sure the much-anticipated deal finally goes through.
Musk responded to Twitter’s plan to force him to acquire the company via lawsuit by tweeting a meme of himself laughing in a series of four photos, with captions that read: “They said I couldn’t buy Twitter, Then they wouldn’t disclose bot info, Now they want to force me to buy Twitter in court, Now they have to disclose bot info in court.”
When Musk filed to terminate the deal, he claimed that Twitter did not provide enough information about the number of fake accounts and bots on the social media platform, and didn’t give his team enough data to do their own analysis.
“Sometimes Twitter has ignored Mr. Musk’s requests, sometimes it has rejected them for reasons that appear to be unjustified, and sometimes it has claimed to comply while giving Mr. Musk incomplete or unusable information,” read the filing.
Twitter launched a lawsuit against Musk on Tuesday to “compel” his completion of the deal. In court documents obtained by PEOPLE, Twitter claimed Musk acted in “bad faith” after reaching a deal to buy the social media platform earlier this year.
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“In April 2022, Elon Musk entered into a binding merger agreement with Twitter, promising to use his best efforts to get the deal done,” Twitter said in the complaint, filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery. “Now, less than three months later, Musk refuses to honor his obligations to Twitter and its stockholders because the deal he signed no longer serves his personal interests,” it continued.
“Having mounted a public spectacle to put Twitter in play, and having proposed and then signed a seller-friendly merger agreement, Musk apparently believes that he — unlike every other party subject to Delaware contract law — is free to change his mind, trash the company, disrupt its operations, destroy stockholder value, and walk away,” the company claimed.
Attorneys for Musk haven’t responded to PEOPLE’s request for comment about the lawsuit.
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