Dolly Parton and Elon Musk have rarely been mentioned together in the same sentence, but this week they have been united in social media comments wondering how the country music queen would have allocated the $44 billion the Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) “technoking” spent acquiring Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR).
What Happened: Parton is one of the entertainment industry’s most generous philanthropists, and also one of its most humble. She referred to her initially unpublicized $1 million donation to the Vanderbilt University Medical Center as only being a “small part” of the development of Moderna Inc.'s (NASDAQ:MRNA) COVID-19 vaccine — her gift became known only when the New England Journal of Medicine cited her as being one of the vaccine’s sponsors.
