Elon Musk denies report he spoke with Putin before tweeting Kremlin-friendly Ukraine 'peace' plan

Elon Musk is "the world's richest man and the tech world's equivalent of a rock star, which brings him into contact with a motley parade of people at glittering gatherings all over the world, with occasionally awkward results," The New York Times reported Tuesday in a long look at the Tesla CEO's eclectic social life. Musk bragged Tuesday he got longtime friend Kanye "Ye" West to think hard about his antisemitic social media posts, for example.

But Musk did not speak directly to Russian President Vladimir Putin before proposing a plan to end Russia's war in Ukraine, he said Tuesday.

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