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Musk review – epic study of the world’s richest and most banal man

The Guardian Culture Tuesday 08 September 2026, 12:32 UTC By Peter Bradshaw in Venice 1 min read
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Venice film festival: Alex Gibney interviews former colleagues, wives, the trillionaire’s father and an AI Muskbot in this absorbing documentary‘Elon is a nuke.” The speaker is Ashley St Clair, a former conservative Maga influencer and one of Elon Musk’s former girlfriends-slash-baby mommasShe is a fascinating expert witness in Alex Gibney’s four-hour epic study of the world’s richest and dullest man: the overgrown brattish South-African-born trillionaire plutocrat, ersatz visionary and...

Venice film festival: Alex Gibney interviews former colleagues, wives, the trillionaire’s father and an AI Muskbot in this absorbing documentary

‘Elon is a nuke.” The speaker is Ashley St Clair, a former conservative Maga influencer and one of Elon Musk’s former girlfriends-slash-baby mommas

She is a fascinating expert witness in Alex Gibney’s four-hour epic study of the world’s richest and dullest man: the overgrown brattish South-African-born trillionaire plutocrat, ersatz visionary and Trump courtier who owns Tesla cars, SpaceX rocket ships, Starlink satellites on which nation states’ military capabilities are increasingly reliant, X (formerly Twitter) which shapes the collective “incel” id of billions and GrokAI whose vast server farms daily guzzle oceans of precious water.

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Venice (LOCATION) Alex Gibney (PERSON) an AI Muskbot (PERSON) Ashley St Clair (ORG) Maga (ORG) Elon Musk’s (PERSON) South-African (ORG) Tesla (ORG) SpaceX (ORG) Starlink (LOCATION) Twitter (ORG)
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