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Elon Musk confidante James Murdoch becomes the latest Tesla insider to sell, cashing in $13 million amid the historic single-day plunge

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James Murdoch is the latest Tesla insider to cash out stock at the worst possible time.

Murdoch exercised call options worth 54,776 shares granted to him as compensation.

He then liquidated them for $13.2 million in cash that very day.

Murdoch 's sale follows several by fellow non-executive directors, Tesla chair Robyn Denholm and Kimbal .

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