Billie Eilish Criticizes Musk for Hoarding Wealth

Billie Eilish, the Grammy-winning singer, publicly criticized Elon Musk on Thursday via Instagram Stories, accusing the Tesla CEO of hoarding his vast wealth as he nears potential trillionaire status. In a series of posts, the 23-year-old artist shared infographics from the activist group My Voice, My Choice, highlighting ways Musk could allocate portions of his fortune to global causes, including ending world hunger by 2030 with an annual investment of $40 billion, providing universal access to safe drinking water for $140 billion over seven years, and supporting more than 10,000 endangered species for $12 billion annually. One graphic also proposed $53.2 billion to rebuild Gaza and parts of the West Bank devastated by conflict. Eilish followed the shares with a blunt caption on a black background: "fucking pathetic pussy bitch coward," directed at Musk.

The remarks build on Eilish's recent advocacy for philanthropy among the ultra-wealthy. Just two weeks earlier, on October 29, she addressed billionaires at the Wall Street Journal Innovator Awards in New York, where Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and others were in attendance. "We're in a time right now where the world is really,...