EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Elon Musk's SpaceX sonic boom leaves Sussexes' Montecito community 'creaking'
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Their quest to find freedom led them to break from Palace protocol and embrace lives living as 'ordinary people' in California, where their home is a £12million Tuscan-style mansion with thirteen – and a half – bathrooms, a spa, swimming pool, cellar, cinema and more or less everything a couple with two young children could need.
![[Residents in Montecito there are being reduced to wails of distress by the world's richest man, Elon Musk (pictured)]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/03/21/93723485-14248501-image-a-14_1735939080537.jpg)
Yet might there be a curse on Montecito, a cluster of gated communities where Harry and Meghan's neighbours include their special friend Oprah Winfrey, not to mention Gwyneth Paltrow and one-time teen heartthrob Rob Lowe?. I ask because residents there are being reduced to wails of distress by the world's richest man, Elon Musk.
![[Not by Musk's political pronouncements, splendidly forthright though those are, but by the acoustic assault from Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB), where the multi-billionaire's SpaceX missions blast off with impressive regularity]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/03/21/93723499-14248501-image-a-16_1735939092889.jpg)
Not by his political pronouncements, splendidly forthright though those are, but by the acoustic assault from Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB), where the multi-billionaire's SpaceX missions blast off with impressive regularity. 'Enough! Let's stop the disruptive arrogant sonic booms at night!' howls one Californian on an online community group.
![[Romance is still in the air for Cara Delevingne and her singer girlfriend Minke (pictured together), who spent Christmas with the supermodel's family – including her sister Poppy and property developer father Charles – in New York]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/03/21/93723489-14248501-image-a-17_1735939613375.jpg)
'This insane frequency and quantity needs regulation, it's just terrible,' says another, alleging that the blast-offs exact a structural as well as a sonic cost. 'I could hear the house creaking,' insists the complainant, one of nearly 1,300 signatories on a petition entitled Protect California's Coast: Say No to Deregulation and Unchecked SpaceX Expansion at VSFB.
![[However, they only started dating in 2022 after being reunited at an Alanis Morissette concert. Cara has credited Minke with helping her stay on the road to sobriety (Cara and Minke are pictured together above)]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/03/21/93723497-14248501-However_they_only_started_dating_in_2022_after_being_reunited_at-m-19_1735939680786.jpg)
The aural trauma comes in the wake of an aromatic one which aroused similar desperation, as I disclosed last May. Might there be a curse on Montecito, a cluster of gated communities where Harry and Meghan's (pictured) neighbours include their special friend Oprah Winfrey, not to mention Gwyneth Paltrow and one-time teen heartthrob Rob Lowe?.
![[Spare a thought for film producer Jemima Goldsmith, who has had a painful start to the year after falling down a mountain in South Africa]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/03/21/93723491-14248501-image-a-20_1735939749265.jpg)
