Elon Musk tried to get into a German nightclub wearing a Mask of Zorro disguise while in Berlin to open Tesla’s new gigafactory over the weekend.
The factory, built on the outskirts of the German capital, aims to produce 500,000 cars a year when fully operational.
But after the work, came play with the billionaire seen bouncing around Berlin sampling some of the city’s nightlife, including a fetish club.
During his club crawl, Musk also tweeted that he did not manage to make it inside one of Germany’s most exclusive nightclubs.
The club in question, Berghain, known for its techno music and high-end clubbing clientele has a strict door policy to which it appears the billionaire may not have met.
Photography is banned inside the club with those allowed inside forced to cover up their cellphone’s cameras with stickers.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is pictured during the official opening of a new Tesla electric car manufacturing plant in Germany. The new plant, officially called the Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg, is producing the Model Y as well as electric car batteries
Tesla’s new factory which aims to produce 500,000 cars annually when fully operational
Musk went on a nightclub crawl of the German capital included the KitKatClub, seen above
Although it is believed he didn’t make it inside Berghain, Musk, 50, was spotted at the fetishist KitKatClub, seen above
‘They wrote PEACE on the wall at Berghain! I refused enter,’ Musk tweeted in cryptic, or simply misspelled message on Saturday.
‘Peace. Peace? I hate the word. Those who do care about peace (myself aspirationally included) don’t need to hear it,’ he added in a second post
Musk later tweeted ‘Berlin rocks’ during his night on the town
‘They wrote PEACE on the wall at Berghain! I refused enter,’ Musk tweeted in cryptic message on Saturday.
‘Peace. Peace? I hate the word. Those who do care about peace (myself aspirationally included) don’t need to hear it,’ he added in a second post.
Although it is believed he didn’t make it inside Berghain, Musk, 50, was later spotted at the fetishist KitKatClub, reports The Sun.
It is not known what SpaceX CEO and founder was wearing but the dress code allows for leather, latex and lingerie a veers towards the bizarre to allow swim suits, superhero outfits or birthday suits. Photography is also not allowed inside the venue.
Musk was also seen at the Sisyphos nightclub celebrating entrepreneur Adeo Ressi’s birthday, according to The Times. Musk later tweeted ‘Berlin rocks.’
The theme of the club is that of a festival. Musk attempted to disguise himself as he entered wearing a Zorro mask.
Berlin’s Berghain club is pictured. It’s believed that Musk did not manage to make it inside
Berlin’s Berghain, one of the world’s most famous clubs has been called the ‘world capital of techno’ and is housed in a former energy plant
Elon Musk has become Twitter’s largest shareholder, with a 9.2 per cent stake in the social media company
A day earlier, he made a poll asking whether Twitter adheres to the principle of free speech, warning the results will be ‘important’
The mogul has been raising questions about the ability to communicate freely on Twitter, and on March 26 he asked what should be done about Twitter’s free speech principles and if a new platform is needed
Musk on Monday disclosed a 9.2% stake in Twitter Inc, worth nearly $3 billion, making him the micro-blogging site’s largest shareholder and triggering a rise of more than 27% in the company’s shares.
Musk’s move, revealed in a regulatory filing, comes on the heels of his tweet that he was giving ‘serious thought’ to building a new social media platform, while questioning Twitter’s commitment to free speech.
He also started a poll tweet asking Twitter users if they want an edit button, a long-awaited feature on which the social media platform has been working.
In less than three hours of starting the poll, more than 1.2 million users voted, with over 75% of them backing an edit option.
The world’s richest man bought nearly 73.5 million shares, a document filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission shows
A prolific Twitter user, Musk has over 80 million followers since joining the site in 2009 and has used the platform to make several announcements, including teasing a go-private deal for Tesla that landed him in hot water with regulators.
Of late, however, the world’s richest person has been critical of the social media platform and its policies, and recently ran a Twitter poll asking users if they believed the platform adheres to the principle of free speech, to which over 70% voted ‘no.’
Twitter’s share price has rocketed since Musk’s investment on March 14
Musk – who, according to Forbes, has a net worth of about $300 billion – has been reducing his stake in Tesla since November, when he said he would offload 10% of his holding in the electric-car maker. He has already sold $16.4 billion worth of shares since then.
A regulatory filing on Monday showed that Musk owns 73.5 million Twitter shares, which are held by the Elon Musk Revocable Trust, of which he is the sole trustee.
Twitter shares rose 27.1% on Monday to close at $49.97. The stock, which had fallen 38% in the past 12 months through Friday’s close, on Monday added as much as $8.38 billion to its market capitalization, which now stands at $39.3 billion.
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