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In May 2020, Tesla “founder” and CEO Elon Musk announced his intention to detach himself from his material possessions, including from the roofs over his head. “I am selling almost all physical possessions. Will own no house,” Musk wrote in a tweet, noting that he was closing on the last of seven home sales that would relieve him of his real estate entanglements. However, Musk added the caveat, “Just one stipulation on sale: I own Gene Wilder’s old house. It cannot be torn down or lose any its soul.”

Instead of selling the Bel-Air home that belonged to Wilder until 2007 on Zillow, which, hilariously, is how Musk unloaded his other personal properties, Musk sold what was once the Wilder estate to the Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory star’s nephew, Jordan Walker-Pearlman a film director and writer,...