Elon Musk ex-girlfriend photos, memorabilia sell for $165K
Highlights include a 14-karat gold necklace with a small green emerald, signed birthday card
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A collection of never-before-seen photos and memorabilia from billionaire Elon Musk's college sweetheart Jennifer Gwynne have sold for a combined total of $165,265, according to Boston-based RR Auction.
The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX dated Gwynne in the fall of the 1994 school year when they both lived and worked as resident advisors at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Elon Musk seated on a bench with his girlfriend, Jennifer Gwynne, on the University of Pennsylvania campus in 1995 (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Gwynne / RR Auction)
Elon Musk having a drink on a couch with his girlfriend, Jennifer Gwynne, at his brother Kimbal’s student apartment at Queen’s University in late 1994. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Gwynne / RR Auction)
Elon Musk as a 23-year-old senior at the University of Pennsylvania, lazing about with his college girlfriend, Jennifer Gwynne, in early 1995. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Gwynne / RR Auction)
In 1995, after graduating from Penn with a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics and a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from the Wharton School, Musk migrated to Stanford University, where he was accepted into the school's Ph.D. program in materials science. He left after two days to join the Internet boom and launch his first startup.
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Highlights from the sale included a 14-karat gold necklace with a small green emerald that Musk gave to Gwynne as birthday gift in late 1994 and a signed birthday card, which sold for $51,008 and $16,643, respectively.
A 14-karat gold necklace with a small green emerald that Elon Musk presented as a birthday gift to Jennifer Gwynne in late 1994. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Gwynne / RR Auction)
A birthday card with a multicolored, repeating 'Love You' design on the front, neatly signed, and inscribed by the future Tesla boss, "Happy Birthday, Jennifer (aka, Boo-Boo), Love, Elon." (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Gwynne / RR Auction)
A birthday card with a multicolored, repeating 'Love You' design on the front, neatly signed, and inscribed by the future Tesla boss, "Happy Birthday, Jennifer (aka, Boo-Boo), Love, Elon." (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Gwynne / RR Auction)
Included with the necklace were two candid photos which depict the couple standing with Elon's mother, Maye Musk, during a visit to New York City and four other resident advisors before an end-of-the-year formal at the University of Pennsylvania in 1995.
Jennifer Gwynne and Elon Musk stand with Maye Musk during a visit to New York City on May 13, 1995. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Gwynne / RR Auction)
Elon Musk and Jennifer Gwynne pose with other resident advisors before an end-of-the-year formal at the University of Pennsylvania in 1995. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Gwynne / RR Auction)
Additional candid photos of Musk included in the lot sold for as low as $1,155 to as high as $21,889.
Elon Musk as a 23-year-old senior at the University of Pennsylvania in 1994, showing him happily wearing a Judge Dredd t-shirt in a fourth-floor study hall in one of the Quad towers. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Gwynne / RR Auction)
Elon Musk as a 23-year-old senior at the University of Pennsylvania, showing him seated with his girlfriend, Jennifer Gwynne, and another friend at an RA staff meeting. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Gwynne / RR Auction)
Elon Musk as a 23-year-old senior at the University of Pennsylvania, showing him goofing about upside down on the floor of his girlfriend’s Quadrangle dorm room in 1994. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Gwynne / RR Auction)
Elon Musk having a drink on a couch at his brother Kimbal’s student apartment at Queen’s University in late 1994. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Gwynne / RR Auction)
Elon Musk as a 23-year-old senior at the University of Pennsylvania, dressed in a tuxedo for an end-of-the-school-year formal in 1995. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Gwynne / RR Auction)
lon Musk as a 23-year-old senior at the University of Pennsylvania, seated at a computer in his girlfriend’s Quadrangle dorm room in 1995. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Gwynne / RR Auction)
Elon Musk in 1995 standing in a kitchen next to an open refrigerator door and opening a carton of orange juice. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Gwynne / RR Auction)
Elon Musk seated and smiling in his BMW in the summer of 1995, not long after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Gwynne / RR Auction)
Elon Musk as a 23-year-old senior at the University of Pennsylvania, showing him goofing about upside down on the floor of his girlfriend’s Quadrangle dorm room in 1994. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Gwynne / RR Auction)
Elon Musk as a 23-year-old senior at the University of Pennsylvania, seated and smiling in a Philadelphia restaurant during a Resident Advisors team dinner in 1995. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Gwynne / RR Auction)
Elon Musk, as viewed from the back, looking over at Niagara Falls in 1994. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Gwynne / RR Auction)
Elon Musk as a 23-year-old senior at the University of Pennsylvania, seated in a Philadelphia restaurant during a Resident Advisors team dinner in 1995. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Gwynne / RR Auction)
Elon Musk driving his BMW as a 23-year-old senior at the University of Pennsylvania. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Gwynne / RR Auction)
Elon Musk posing with a friend—and a Siberian Husky—during his 1994 winter break in Canada. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Gwynne / RR Auction)
Elon Musk as a recent graduate from the University of Pennsylvania in the summer of 1995, showing him on a hiking trail high above a foggy San Francisco Bay. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Gwynne / RR Auction)
"Elon Musk is one of the most successful entrepreneurs of the 21st century," RR Auction executive vice president Bobby Livingston said in a statement."There is very little Musk-related material that has come up for auction, and we will no doubt be seeing more soon with the success of this sale."
"We are always thrilled and honored when one of our auctions can impact the lives of our consignors as this sale has done," he added.
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On Wednesday, Musk changed his Twitter profile picture to one of the photos included in the auction.
On Wednesday, Musk changed his Twitter profile picture to one of the photos included in the auction. (Elon Musk via Twitter / Fox News)
Gwynne will use the proceeds from the auction to help pay for her stepson's college tuition.