In 2013, a trust linked with Elon Musk bought the former home of actor Gene Wilder, which happened to be across the street from where Musk lived. Seven years later, he put it on the market for $9.5 million, with the stipulation that he wanted the buyer to preserve it.
Wilder’s nephew Jordan Walker-Pearlman and his wife, Elizabeth Hunter, relished the idea, but didn’t have nearly enough to afford the Los Angles property, located in the Bel-Air Country Club. To accommodate them, Musk dropped the price to $7 million and agreed to lend the couple most of the money (some $6.7 million) to buy it.
