What is known about the exclusive private club to which Elon Musk is a member and where photos are prohibited

It is one of the paradises on earth San Vicente Bungalowsthe private social club in the West Hollywood section of Los Angeles, an urban playground reserved for the few 750 members, highly exclusive.

Billionaire Elon Musk sold his latest California home earlier this year, but has remained a member of the exclusive Los Angeles club.

Musk appears to be one of the few directors technology executives claiming a membership in the San Vicente Bungalows.

Now, when he’s in town, he couchsurfs and often stays at the Beverly Hills mansion michael kivesa former agent turned venture capitalist.

Not everyone would have seen in this set of wooden structures the potential for a private club that would have made the entrance to the Tower Bar almost as exclusive and refined.

Its founder, Jeffrey Klein, He had long dreamed of recreating a members-only hangout in Los Angeles at Annabel’s, a London nightclub founded in 1963.

Not surprisingly, this interest has coincided with a growing trend in Los Angeles, as elsewhere, of bring people together in high-level public settingsnot unlike the social versions of a closed community.

“When it first moved, it was a trinket and a trinket, because there were no tech kings in Los Angeles,” said Ashlee Vance, author of the 2015 biography “Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Search of a fantastic future,” the New York Times earlier this year.

Klein dreamed of making St. Vincent Bungalows the kind of place they went, with great prestigecharacters of the stature of Spielberg and Sarandos, to share bread and long evenings.

As is Bungalows San Vicente

In creating his private social club, Klein set out to emphasize the private as well as the social, assuming that the full involvement of the former allows for the maximum expression of the latter.

“I think privacy has become the ultimate luxury“, he says. With this measure and others, Klein has created the most luxurious club in Los Angeles and perhaps in all of America.

Clubs are by no means new to Los Angeles, of course, its long history probably beginning with the “gentlemen only” California Club, which opened in a barn in 1887, followed eight years later by the founding of the elegant Jonathan Club.

In the San Vicente Bungalows it is absolutely forbidden to take pictures on site. Partners risk fines for being on their phones. In the case of guests, the restrictions are more severe: smartphone camera lenses are covered with stickers upon arrival.

“My latest fantasy is that Jennifer Aniston wants to date Brad Pitt,” says Klein. “I mean, can you imagine? They could come here and nobody would be able to say anything, do anything, take a picture. Maybe it’s happened before…in my dreams.”

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