On November 30, 2023, the Tesla electric pickup Cybertruck delivery event was held at the Texas Gigafactory in the United States. The day before, Florida man Paul Overeem was arrested near the Austin factory in Texas. The authorities accused him of planning a "mass casualty incident."

2023年11月30日，特斯拉电动皮卡Cybertruck交付活动在美国得州超级工厂举办，前一天，佛罗里达州男子保罗·奥维瑞姆在德克萨斯州奥斯汀工厂附近被捕，当局指控他策划了一场「大规模伤亡事件」。

The Cybertruck delivery later made headlines, but what was happening behind the scenes at the Austin factory went unnoticed.

Cybertruck的交付后来成为头条新闻，奥斯汀工厂背后发生事情没有引起人们注意。

According to two people familiar with the matter and documents seen by The New York Times, security personnel received a warning of Overeem's threats before the event and activated the full security plan. The list of invitees was carefully sexted, and everyone was background checked in advance. When Musk took the stage, more than 39 Tesla security personnel were stationed around, and bodyguards from the private security company Foundation Security patrolled the scene.

据两位知情人士和《纽约时报》看到的数据显示，活动开始前，安保人员收到了奥维瑞姆威胁警告，并全面启动安保方案。 受邀者名单经过精心挑选，每个人都提前进行了背调，当马斯克登上舞台时，超过39名特斯拉安保人员驻守在四周，还有来自私人安保公司 Foundation Security的保镖在场巡逻。

Musk, 53, has long maintained a carefree persona, traveling the world and rubbing shoulders with world leaders, celebrities and business tycoons, but privately the personal threats he faces continue to escalate as he becomes richer, more famous and more outspoken.

53岁的马斯克长期以来一直保持着大大咧咧的人设，周游世界，与世界领导人、名人以及商业大亨交往密切，然而私下里，随着他变得越来越富有、越来越出名、越来越口无遮拦，他个人受到的威胁也持续升级。

To protect himself, he hid behind a swarm of armed bodyguards.

为了保护自己，他躲在了成群结队的武装保镖身后。

The world's richest man, who has a net worth of more than $240 billion, once received calls and messages from adoring fans, but now is routinely harassed and threatened with death by stalkers, according to police documents and internal Tesla records.

根据警方文件和特斯拉内部记录，这位世界首富净资产超过2400亿美元，他曾经接到过狂热粉丝的电话和信息，如今却经常受到跟踪者的骚扰和死亡威胁。
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While many high-profile figures have had similar experiences, Musk's security measures in recent years have been higher than those of other billionaires.

虽然许多知名人士都有过类似的遭遇，但马斯克近年来的安保措施，比其他亿万富翁都高。

Tesla and SpaceX, which Musk runs, pay millions of dollars a year for his security, including to security firm Gavin de Becker & Associates and other companies, according to Tesla's internal documents. To further ensure his own safety, Musk even set up a private security company, documents and security experts said.

根据特斯拉内部文件，马斯克所掌管的特斯拉和SpaceX每年为他的安全支付数百万美元，包括支付给安保公司Gavin de Becker &Associates和其他公司。 文件和安全专家称，为了进一步保证自己的安全，马斯克甚至成立了私人安保公司。

Security experts revealed that Musk's security team is now like a small Secret Service, and he is protected more like a head of state than a corporate executive. In the past, Musk had only two bodyguards, but now he is accompanied by up to 20 security professionals when he travels. They will study escape routes or check rooms before Musk enters. They often carry guns and are accompanied by a medical professional.

安全专家透露，马斯克的安全团队现在就像一个小型特勤局，他受到的保护力度更像是国家元首而非企业高管。 过去，马斯克只有两名保镖，如今他出行时身边有多达20名安全专业人员随行，他们会在马斯克进入之前研究逃生路线或检查房间，他们经常携带枪枝，并有一名医疗专业人员陪同。

Three people close to Musk said Musk became fearful and his life became isolated. According to a 2023 lawsuit filed by former X employees over severance pay, Musk was accompanied by bodyguards almost all the time, even when X went to the bathroom. Sometimes Musk exaggerated the severity of the threats.

三位与马斯克关系密切的人士表示，马斯克变得恐惧，他的生活变得孤立。 根据2023年X前雇员就遣散费提起的诉讼，马斯克几乎无时无刻不带着保镖，就连在X上洗手间的时候也会带着人。 有时，马斯克会夸大威胁的严重性。

At Tesla's annual shareholder meeting in June, Musk said he thought the threats against him were getting increasingly crazy.

6月的特斯拉年度股东大会上，马斯克表示，他认为针对他的威胁越来越疯狂。

"The chance that a killer is going to try to kill you is directly proportional to how many killers hear your name," he said. "They hear my name so often that I say, 'Well, I'm on the list,' you know." He added that this forced him to distance himself from the public.

“杀人狂试图杀死你的概率与有多少杀人狂听到你的名字成正比，”他说，“他们经常听到我的名字，我会说，‘好吧，我在名单上’，你懂的。” 他补充说，这迫使他和公众之间愈加疏远。
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Monthly fee exceeds one million, and they follow him even to the toilet: revealing the secrets of Musk's personal bodyguards
Not all super-rich people surround themselves with iron walls like Musk. Warren E. Buffett, who is worth more than $145 billion, has only hired one personal bodyguard for many years, but some people say that Buffett's company Berkshire Hathaway has hired multiple security companies. Before Musk, Jack Dorsey, the former CEO of X, often walked for miles through San Francisco without bodyguards.

并不是所有超级富豪都和马斯克一样将自己围得铜墙铁壁。 身价超过1450亿美元的股神沃伦· E·巴菲特多年来只雇佣了一名私人保镖，但也有人说，巴菲特的公司伯克希尔-哈撒韦雇佣了多家安保公司。 马斯克之前，X的前任CEO杰克·多西经常在没有保镖的情况下步行数英里穿越旧金山。

This year, Tesla disclosed in documents for the first time that it paid $2.4 million for security to protect Musk in 2023. $500,000 was paid in the first two months of 2024, more than five times the average spending per two months in 2019. According to invoices and receipts seen by The New York Times, Musk spent an average of $145,000 per month on security from 2015 to 2018.

今年，特斯拉在文件中首次披露，2023年为保护马斯克支付了240万美元的安保费用。 2024年前两个月支付了50万美元，是2019年每两个月平均花费的五倍多。 根据《纽约时报》看到的发票和收据，从2015年到2018年，马斯克平均每月在安保上花费14.5万美元。

By comparison, Apple spent $820,000 in 2023 to protect its CEO Tim Cook, and Amazon spent $1.6 million a year to protect its founder Jeff Bezos. Meta is one of the few companies that spends more on its CEO, with a security allocation of $23.4 million for its CEO Mark Zuckerberg in 2023, according to the filing.

相比之下，苹果2023年花费82万美元保护其首席执行官蒂姆·库克，亚马逊每年花费160万美元保护其创始人杰夫·贝佐斯。 文件显示，Meta是少数花费更多钱在CEO上的公司，2023年公，其执行长马克·扎克伯格的安全拨款为2340万美元。

The New York Times compiled these previously unreported details about Musk's security from hundreds of pages of Tesla documents, police and local government documents obtained through public records requests, state records from Musk's security firm, recordings, court documents and Securities and Exchange Commission filings.

《纽约时报》从数百页特斯拉文件、通过公共记录请求获得的警方和地方政府文件、马斯克安保公司的州记录、录音、法庭文件和美国证券交易委员会文件汇编了这些内容，此前未曾有人报道过的有关马斯克安保的详细信息。
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Some of the Tesla documents come from records and data obtained by Handelsblatt from former Tesla employee Lukasz Krupski. People close to Musk requested anonymity to avoid losing their jobs or jeopardizing their relationship with Musk and Tesla.

部分特斯拉文件来自德国《商报》从特斯拉前雇员卢卡什·克鲁普斯基那里获得的记录和数据。 与马斯克关系密切的人士要求匿名，以免失去工作或影响与马斯克和特斯拉的关系。
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Musk, who is informal, often forgets his keys in his car and doesn't want bodyguards, has been asked by Tesla's board of directors to increase his level of personal security as his profile grows, according to people close to him.

据马斯克的亲信说，马斯克行事不拘小节，会经常把钥匙忘在车里，不想要保镖。 但随着知名度的上升，特斯拉董事会要求他提高个人安全保卫等级。

By 2014, Musk hired bodyguards from Gavin de Becker & Associates (GDBA). When Musk was on a business trip, a group of bodyguards from GDBA would take turns accompanying him everywhere, most of whom had military experience.

到2014年，马斯克雇佣了Gavin de Becker & Associates（GDBA）公司的保镖，当马斯克出差时，来自GDBA的一群保镖会轮流陪伴他到处走，他们中的大多数人有过军队的经历。

Such services typically cost six figures a month. In January 2016, when Musk visited Mexico, Hong Kong, London, Paris, Israel and Texas, GDBA billed him $163,674.59, according to the filing. The costs were shared by SpaceX, Tesla and Musk.

此类服务的价格通常达到每月6位数。 文件显示，2016年1月，当马斯克访问墨西哥、香港（特区）、伦敦、巴黎、以色列和德克萨斯州时，GDBA的账单为163674.59美元。 这些费用由SpaceX、特斯拉和马斯克分摊。

Monthly fee exceeds one million, and they follow him even to the toilet: revealing the secrets of Musk's personal bodyguards
Bodyguards often run errands for Musk to minimize his time in public. They washed Musk's car, picked up dry cleaning, and once tipped a bartender in London $80 to keep him open after get off work. They also bought sombreros and fireworks for a New Year's celebration in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico in 2015, and paid a $22,445.72 hotel bill for Musk's family and employees at a luxury hotel in Hong Kong in January 2016.

保镖经常为马斯克跑腿，以尽量减少他在公共场合的时间。 他们为马斯克洗车、取干洗衣物，还有一次在伦敦给一位酒保80美元小费，为了让他在下班后继续营业。 他们还为 2015年墨西哥巴亚尔塔港举办的新年庆祝活动购买了墨西哥宽边帽和烟花，并于2016年1月在香港（特区）一家豪华酒店为马斯克的家人和员工支付了22445.72 美元的酒店账单。
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The GDBA helped Musk conduct "threat assessments" and hired a senior consultant who charged more than $400 an hour, the documents show.

文件显示，GDBA的会帮助马斯克进行“威胁评估”，聘请了一位高级顾问，每小时收费超过400美元。

The company also helped Musk solve some problems. A few years ago, the Internet address of tesla.com belonged to Stu Grossman, a senior engineer at a network company who obtained the domain name before Tesla was founded. Musk wanted to buy it, but Grossman was in no hurry to sell it.

该公司还帮助马斯克解决一些难题。 几年前 tesla.com 的互联网地址的属于斯图·格罗斯曼，他是一家网络公司的高级工程师，在特斯拉成立之前就获得了这个域名，马斯克想买下它，但格罗斯曼并不急于出售。

Grossman said he was visited twice at his San Francisco home in 2015 and once outside a restaurant by private security guards who identified themselves as Musk's employees. Outside the restaurant, Grossman said the detective told him, "Elon wants you to know, he wants to hear from you." Grossman eventually agreed to sell the tesla.com domain to Tesla for an undisclosed price.

格罗斯曼说，2015年，私人保镖两次到他旧金山的家中，一次在一家餐馆外拜访他，这些保镖自称是马斯克的雇员。 格罗斯曼说，在餐馆外的时候，侦探告诉他：“埃隆想让你知道，他想听听你的意思。”格罗斯曼最终同意以未公开的价格将 tesla.com 的域名卖给特斯拉。
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Threats against Musk appear to be skyrocketing. Records show that since Tesla opened its factory in Austin in early 2022, the Travis County Sheriff's Office has responded to eight "terrorist threats" there, at least two of which were directed directly at Musk.

对马斯克的威胁似乎在直线上升。 记录显示，自特斯拉于2022年初在奥斯汀开设工厂以来，特拉维斯县警长办公室已对那里发生的8起恐怖威胁事件做出了回应，其中至少两起直接针对马斯克。

By comparison, officers have responded to five terrorist threats at Tesla's factory in Fremont, California, over the past decade, according to police records.

相比之下，根据警方记录，过去十年，警方对特斯拉位于加利福尼亚州弗里蒙特的工厂发生的5起恐怖威胁事件做出了回应。

According to Travis County court documents, Overeem was arrested in Austin in November before arriving at the Tesla factory and posted threats in an Instagram group chat about an upcoming Cybertruck event where Musk was scheduled to give a speech.

根据特拉维斯县法庭文件，奥维瑞姆于11月在抵达特斯拉工厂前，于奥斯汀被捕，他在Instagram的群聊中发布了有关即将在马斯克将发表演讲的Cybertruck活动中发起威胁的信息。
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"If I say I'm going to kill someone then you should take this seriously," he wrote in one message, according to the documents.

根据文件，他在一条消息中写道：“如果我说我要杀人，那麽你应该认真对待这件事。”

Musk and Tesla's security department took the threat seriously and addressed the issue before the Cybertruck event. Tesla also alxed law enforcement, according to court documents.

马斯克和特斯拉的安全部门认真对待这一威胁，并在Cybertruck活动前解决了问题。 法庭文件显示，特斯拉还向执法部门发出了警报。

Monthly fee exceeds one million, and they follow him even to the toilet: revealing the secrets of Musk's personal bodyguards
A jury indicted Overeem on a felony charge of making terrorist threats, and he was released on $200,000 bail, with the condition that he stay 200 yards away from Musk and Shivon Zilis, an executive at another of Musk's companies, Neuralix, and the mother of Musk's children.

陪审团起诉了奥维瑞姆，指控他犯有制造恐怖威胁的重罪。 他以20万美元的保释金获释，保释条件是要与马斯克和马斯克另一家公司Neuralix旗下的高管希冯·齐里斯保持200码（182.88米）的距离。 齐里斯是马斯克几个孩子的母亲。

Musk's July post on X was apparently directed at those events following the assassination of former President Donald J. Trump.

前总统唐纳德· J·特朗普遇刺后，马斯克7月在X上发帖，显然是针对这些事件。

"Danger is imminent," he wrote. "Two people have tried to kill me in the last eight months." He said both had guns, but court documents show that Overeem and McCauley were unarmed when they were arrested.

“危险即将来临。” 他写道。“在过去8个月里，已经有两个人（分别）试图杀死我。” 他说，两人都有枪，但法庭文件显示，奥维瑞姆和麦考利被捕时均未携带任何武器。