Elon Musk’s college sweetheart auctions off University of Pennsylvania mementos

PHILADELPHIA — Holding onto an ex’s stuff could show worthwhile afterward, no less than in case your ex seems to be the wealthiest man on this planet.

The previous girlfriend of tech entrepreneur Elon Musk is auctioning off a cache of images and Musk memorabilia from her relationship with the billionaire. Jennifer Gwynne, Musk’s school girlfriend, is promoting the mementos by way of Boston-based RR Public sale.

Gwynne and Musk began relationship in 1994 once they each labored as resident advisers in a college dorm, in keeping with a information launch RR Public sale shared with CNN. Quickly after graduating from the College of Pennsylvania, Musk began in a doctoral program at Stanford, however dropped out to launch his first startup, Zip2.

The lot contains 18 candid images of the entrepreneur as a baby-faced economics pupil on the College of Pennsylvania, in addition to a number of different mementos of Musk and Gwynne’s time collectively.

The shiny images present the billionaire wanting each bit the traditional school pupil earlier than his meteoric rise to success: goofing off in a dorm room, hanging out along with his fellow resident advisers, and cuddling along with his girlfriend.

The merchandise with the present highest bid is a signed birthday card, adopted by a necklace gifted to Gwynne on her birthday.

“Completely satisfied Birthday, Jennifer (aka, Boo-Boo), Love, Elon,” reads the be aware. As of Sunday morning, the best bid is sort of $7,000. The cardboard is anticipated to promote for greater than $10,000, in keeping with RR.

The gold necklace contains an emerald from the Zambian emerald mine owned by Musk’s father Errol, a rich South African property developer and engineer.

“Once we went to go to Elon’s mom in Toronto through the Christmas break of 1994, Elon gave me each the small ‘love, love, love’ be aware and the necklace,” stated Gwynne in RR’s assertion. “His mother had a lot of these necklaces in a case in her bed room, and Elon advised me they had been from his father’s emerald mine in South Africa – he pulled one from the case. And since I had not gotten him something as a Christmas reward (and I felt very responsible about that), he stated we might contemplate the necklace an early birthday current for me.”

“I wore the necklace for a lot of years on and off, but it surely’s largely been in my jewellery field for the final ten years (at all times reminding me of Elon, after all).”

The necklace additionally comes with two images, one in every of Musk and Gwynne with Musk’s mom, the mannequin Maye Musk, and one in every of Musk and Gwynne at an end-of-the-year formal in 1995.

Tesla superfans can place a bid on a chunk of Musk-orabilia till Wednesday, when the public sale closes.

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