Musk Sells Tesla Stock Worth $6.9 Bln As Possibility Of Forced Twitter Deal Rises – Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk sold $6.9 billion worth of shares in the electric vehicle maker, saying the funds could be used to finance a potential Twitter deal if he loses a legal battle with the social media platform. [reuters]

Donald Trump Refuses To Answer Questions In New York Investigation – Former US President Donald Trump has declined to answer questions as part of a New York state investigation into his family’s business practices. [bbc]

Disney Edges Past Netflix In Streaming Subscribers As It Raises Ad-Free Prices – Disney+, Hulu and ESPN sees total of 221m customers at the end of the June quarter compared with Netflix’s 220.7m. [guardian]

Over 100 Animals Killed In Suspected Poisoning In Kruger National Park – Over 100 vultures and a hyena have died after feeding on a buffalo carcass near Punda Maria in the Kruger National Park. [n24]

Learjets, Mistresses, And Bales Of Weed: My Dad’s Life As A Drug Kingpin – Dan McGuiness was one of the architects of the modern drug trade, creating a marijuana empire for much of the 1970s and 1980s while successfully escaping from prison multiple times. Now, his daughter reports on the life and times of the father who never came home. [rollsto]

Johnny Depp To Play King Louis XV In First Film In Three Years – It marks the actor’s first role since he won his court case against his ex-wife Amber Heard, who he had accused of defamation. [tatler]

Lewis Hamilton: The F1 Superstar On Racism, His Future, And The Shocker That Cost Him A Championship – The maverick driver can handle anything. But spiders. And traffic. [vanfair]

How To Own A Fraction Of A Warhol – Fractional ownership of artworks is becoming big business — but does it stand up as an investment? [ft]

Psych Nurse Fired After Reporting Patients ‘Blowing Each Other’ And Hitting Staff – “I got patients blowing each other,” a nurse says she told a supervisor. A week later, the hospital fired her for “profane language.” [vice]

Toughen Up, You Gasping Europeans, You’re Part Of The 40°C Club Now So Soldier On African-Style – Our dear friends in Europe, you must toughen up. You are part of the 40°C Club now. Membership means you sleep in your sweat without complaint. We do things differently here. [mav]

‘Succession’ Star Kieran Culkin Explains Why J Smith-Cameron Threw A Drink In His Face – Anyone who’s seen Succession will know that Kieran Culkin and J Smith-Cameron’s characters, Roman and Gerri, have something of an odd relationship — and it sounds like their IRL dynamic is almost as unusual. [mash]

Woman Impaled By Beach Umbrella In Garden City Dies, Coroner Says – A woman died after she was impaled by a beach umbrella near Myrtle Beach, according to the coroner. [wyf] That’s terrible. I remember when a man attacked me with a beach umbrella..

Watching These Shipping Disasters Unfold Makes For Painful Viewing – The world of shipping is complicated enough without container ships destroying cranes and rear-ending other boats. [here]

Princess Diana And Dodi Fayed’s South Of France Superyacht Is Up For Sale – The princess stayed on the luxury vessel with her boyfriend weeks before her death in 1997. [tatler]

Brazil Woman And Psychic Con Mum Out Of $140m In Art And Cash – A woman in Brazil has been arrested on suspicion of using a psychic to swindle her mother out of more than $140m (£114m) in art, cash and jewellery. [bbc]

BlackRock Launches A Private Trust To Give Clients Exposure To Spot Bitcoin – BlackRock has launched a private trust offering institutional clients in the U.S. direct exposure to bitcoin. [cnbc]

Who Gets What In Rupert And Jerry’s Mega Seal High-Stakes ‘Game Of Homes’ Divorce – And the Succession-style family twists and turns behind the break-up drama. [dm]

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