{"id":7162,"date":"2025-08-18T14:33:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1307007.us31.myftpupload.com\/?p=7162"},"modified":"2025-08-18T14:42:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:42:23","slug":"false-elon-musk-did-not-attend-davidos-miami-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/false-elon-musk-did-not-attend-davidos-miami-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"False! Elon Musk did not attend Davido\u2019s Miami wedding\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claim:<\/strong> Elon Musk attends Davido\u2019s wedding in Miami<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> Facebook&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Verdict:<\/strong> False&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Researched by Alfa Shaban<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On August 11, 2025, a video was widely circulated on Facebook claiming that South Africa-born American tech billionaire, Elon Musk, had attended the wedding of Nigerian afrobeats star, David Adedeji Adeleke, popularly known as Davido.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The video posted on the wall of Facebook user <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/mjVcL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daddy Fifty James<\/a> had an inscription that read: \u201cElon Musk just arrived at Davido\u2019s white wedding in Miami USA,\u201d with the post caption which read \u201cElon Musk at Davido&#8217;s wedding.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On August 18, a week after the video was posted, it had garnered 1.9 million views with 35,000 reactions and 2,000 comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"672\" src=\"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AD_4nXf_9Iib42hzA9LUEUJcN2BOWoF2zOuQu2q84PrTmWggKPWWU4gDCbHzRQvWSWNPW3OKgVXFM9fXKqO4UWwHqWAOIUWQTQnsAQfygTGx058Vq23xY4g_1abyLs1e9VMaTMU2pGHm_Q.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7164\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AD_4nXf_9Iib42hzA9LUEUJcN2BOWoF2zOuQu2q84PrTmWggKPWWU4gDCbHzRQvWSWNPW3OKgVXFM9fXKqO4UWwHqWAOIUWQTQnsAQfygTGx058Vq23xY4g_1abyLs1e9VMaTMU2pGHm_Q.png 1600w, https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AD_4nXf_9Iib42hzA9LUEUJcN2BOWoF2zOuQu2q84PrTmWggKPWWU4gDCbHzRQvWSWNPW3OKgVXFM9fXKqO4UWwHqWAOIUWQTQnsAQfygTGx058Vq23xY4g_1abyLs1e9VMaTMU2pGHm_Q-300x126.png 300w, https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AD_4nXf_9Iib42hzA9LUEUJcN2BOWoF2zOuQu2q84PrTmWggKPWWU4gDCbHzRQvWSWNPW3OKgVXFM9fXKqO4UWwHqWAOIUWQTQnsAQfygTGx058Vq23xY4g_1abyLs1e9VMaTMU2pGHm_Q-1024x430.png 1024w, https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AD_4nXf_9Iib42hzA9LUEUJcN2BOWoF2zOuQu2q84PrTmWggKPWWU4gDCbHzRQvWSWNPW3OKgVXFM9fXKqO4UWwHqWAOIUWQTQnsAQfygTGx058Vq23xY4g_1abyLs1e9VMaTMU2pGHm_Q-768x323.png 768w, https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AD_4nXf_9Iib42hzA9LUEUJcN2BOWoF2zOuQu2q84PrTmWggKPWWU4gDCbHzRQvWSWNPW3OKgVXFM9fXKqO4UWwHqWAOIUWQTQnsAQfygTGx058Vq23xY4g_1abyLs1e9VMaTMU2pGHm_Q-1536x645.png 1536w, https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AD_4nXf_9Iib42hzA9LUEUJcN2BOWoF2zOuQu2q84PrTmWggKPWWU4gDCbHzRQvWSWNPW3OKgVXFM9fXKqO4UWwHqWAOIUWQTQnsAQfygTGx058Vq23xY4g_1abyLs1e9VMaTMU2pGHm_Q-750x315.png 750w, https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AD_4nXf_9Iib42hzA9LUEUJcN2BOWoF2zOuQu2q84PrTmWggKPWWU4gDCbHzRQvWSWNPW3OKgVXFM9fXKqO4UWwHqWAOIUWQTQnsAQfygTGx058Vq23xY4g_1abyLs1e9VMaTMU2pGHm_Q-1140x479.png 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This report will fact-check the claim that Musk attended Davido\u2019s wedding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fact-check\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Davido, real name David Adeleke, and his partner Chioma Rowland, held their white wedding in Miami on August 11, 2025. The plush event was attended by scores of friends and family and some Nigerian celebrities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is on the same day that the video alleging that Elon Musk had attended the ceremony was also shared, giving the narrative some credibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using Google reverse image search, FactSpace Nigeria traced the video to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/WkFYz2BXcgA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon\u2019s attendance at a Formula 1 event<\/a>. The event, which took place in<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/EHNVB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> October 2023<\/a>, became popular at the time because of Musk\u2019s use of the Cybertruck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/ghostarchive.org\/archive\/znSQm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">12-second video<\/a> shared by the <a href=\"http:\/\/motortrends.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">motortrend.com<\/a> portal with the caption \u201cMusk Spotted at F1 U.S. Grand Prix With New Cybertruck,\u201d Musk is seen with his son, leaving the event, surrounded by security detail as people scrambled to get photos and videos of the X owner and his truck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe 11th running of Formula 1&#8217;s United States Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas,\u201d Motor Trend wrote about the event Musk attended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Davido-Chioma wedding was also held at the Mana Wynwood Convention Centre, a stunning waterfront venue overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, while in the video showing Musk and his truck, there is the inscription The 44 Club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We browsed<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/pZPrm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> news articles<\/a> and videos (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@trtafrika\/video\/7537692083474189575\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OZRC7rhdKsE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6In7apiL6pE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>) shared from the Chioma-Davido (#ChiVido) wedding, as published by entertainment portals and by bloggers and nowhere is Elon Musk captured as having attended.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If he had attended, new websites across the world and especially those in Nigeria would have reported about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Verdict<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Therefore, the viral claim that Elon Musk attended Davido\u2019s wedding is False.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claim: Elon Musk attends Davido\u2019s wedding in Miami Source: Facebook&nbsp; Verdict: False&nbsp; Researched by Alfa Shaban On August&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"coauthors":[504],"class_list":["post-7162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":41,"label":"Featured"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Elon-Musk-Davido-1024x502.png",1024,502,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Shaban Abdur Rahman Alfa","author_link":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/author\/shaban-abdur-rahman-alfa\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":41,"name":"Featured","slug":"featured","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":41,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Featured posts","parent":0,"count":144,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":41,"category_count":144,"category_description":"Featured posts","cat_name":"Featured","category_nicename":"featured","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7167,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7162\/revisions\/7167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7162"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}