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Eccentric billionaire Elon Musk has revealed he has Asperger’s syndrome during an appearance on US sketch show series Saturday Night Live. The Tesla founder told viewers he was the... | May 9, 2021

Digital tulip or new asset class? Bitcoins bid to go mainstream 13 Feb, 2021 06:00 PM 9 minutes to read SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk at an event in Berlin on December 1, 2020. Photo / Getty SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk at an event in Berlin on December 1, 2020. Photo / Getty Financial Times By: Robin Wigglesworth and Eva Szalay Elon Musk is not like most multibillionaires. The first oblique hint that Teslas eccentric chief executive was contemplating another audacious, market-sh...

Harold Bornstein, Donald Trumps eccentric and long-serving personal doctor, dies aged 73 18 Jan, 2021 06:07 PM 4 minutes to read Harold Bornstein had hoped to accompany Donald Trump into the White House. Screenshot / NBC News Daily Telegraph UK Harold Bornstein, Donald Trumps former personal physician, has died aged 73. Bornstein hit the headlines in 2015 when he issued a letter claiming that the 70-year-old, overweight, junk-food eating would-be Republican candidate would "unequivocally" be "t...

Phil Spector 1939-2021: Genius music producer turned murderer 17 Jan, 2021 08:32 PM 11 minutes to read AP Phil Spector, the eccentric and revolutionary music producer who transformed rock music with his "Wall of Sound" method and who later was convicted of murder, has died. He was 81. California state prison officials said he died Saturday of natural causes at a hospital. Spector was convicted of murdering actress Lana Clarkson in 2003 at his castle-like mansion on the edge of Los Angeles. Afte...

Immediately seized. >> sara jane moore jumped out of the crowd, fired off a weapon and was tackled by another citizen. her background, it turned out, was as a sort of eccentric, kind of a lower-rung political figure. she was kind of an odd duck. >> when gerald ford became president, within the space of one month were two attempts on his life, squeaky fromme and sara jane moore. both tried to shoot him. its like, whats going on? why cant this be stopped? >> so once again this nation has narrowly ...

It was messy. he looked like a street bum. >> reporter: he was 67 by then and seemed to have done away with his cross-dressing. might have lived out his days in quiet, if eccentric, isolation. but then the durst story went hollywood. a movie called "all good things" was released based on robert dursts life, played by ryan gosling. it was directed by filmmaker andrew jarecki. >> bob liked that movie, and thats why he got involved with jarecki, i think. >> reporter: it was to offer his side of the...

Is. found guilty of lying to congress and witness tampering, five counts of false statements, one count of witness tampering, one count of obstruction of a congressional proceeding, guilty on all. charges stem from his efforts to make contact with wikileaks during the 2016 campaign. he faces as many as 20 years in prison -- if the president doesnt pardon him first. stone has cultivated his larger than life status as a professional villain, pranking, lying, smearing, self-destructing his way thro...

That to me is a far better approach than the one where you require registration of the individual or the gun. >> just minutes after making those statements, gerald ford walked into the street and heard the sound of gunfire. >> my god, theres been a shot! theres been a shot. theyre being pushed back by the police. somebody has fired a shot here. we dont know if anybody has been hit. my god! somebody fired a shot. >> the president was not hit. witnesses heard the sound and saw a puff of smoke. the...

The debate performances. is this the accumulation of all that combined with elizabeth warren just running a really strong campaign? >> right, and taking 1 million selfies with prospective voters. i was talking to a couple of senators yesterday about this, senators who are not necessarily to elizabeth warren, but they said theres a cruel double standard being applied to biden. it is what it is, and that is donald trump has somehow succeeded in politics so far by saying whatever pops to mind, tota...

>> reporter: he was 67 by then and seemed to have done away with his cross dressing. might have lived out his days in quiet, if eccentric, isolation. but then the durst story went hollywood. a movie called "all good things" was released based on robert dursts life, played by ryan gosling. it was directed by filmmaker andrew jarecki. >> bob liked that movie, and thats why he got involved with jarecki, i think. >> reporter: it was to offer his side of the story that bob sat for two long interviews...