Elon Musk, the world's richest man, frequently makes headlines, and his
name appears on a daily basis. It's usually about Twitter, Tesla, SpaceX, or Neuralink,
all of which contribute to his multibillion-dollar empire. However, his personal life, which was
previously notoriously private, has recently received a lot of attention, with details of
his previous romantic relationships and controversial father coming to light.
The most recent family news from the famous billionaire has sparked renewed
interest on the internet: his daughter has filed a request to change her name,
reportedly to Vivian Jenna Wilson, to reflect her new gender. She's also been
asked to provide a new birth certificate. This came as a surprise because little
was known about his child and his relationship with her until now.
Here's what we know so far about Musk's 18-year-old daughter.
Vivian Jenna Wilson is believed to be her new name.
Xavier Alexander Musk, formerly known as Xavier Alexander Musk,
filed for the legal change after reaching the age of consent in California,
which is 18 years old. Her name was redacted in the online court document, but her new name
has been revealed as Vivian Jenna Wilson. In addition to changing her given names,
she is ditching her father's surname in favour of her mother Justine's maiden name.
She has no desire to be related to her biological father.
She stated in her petition that she does not want anything to do with her famous
father's family name. "I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father
in any way, shape, or form," she wrote. This stands in stark contrast to Musk's
recent Father's Day tweet, in which he stated, "I love all my kids so much."
Many people expressed their confusion on Twitter after hearing the news. "People
need to pay attention to this," one user wrote. he fact that this person does not want to be
affiliated with their billionaire dad should tell his fans all they need to know about Elon Musk.”
Her coming out opposed her dad’s views on LGBTQ+ politics – and their pronouns
Vivian's request for a legal name change and coming out as transgender
directly contradicts her father's views on the LGBTQ+ community and pronouns.
In 2020, Musk replied to a user’s tweet and claimed that he “absolutely
support[s] trans [sic]”, but “all these pronouns are an esthetic nightmare”.
In 2018, Musk casually tweeted that Tesla "scores 100/100 for 7th year in a row
for LGBTQ equality," referring to the 2022 Corporate Equality Index list.
However, Musk declared his support for Republican Party elected representative Ron DeSantis,
who is known for his conservative views: he signed bills to prohibit discussion of
gender identity and sexual orientation in schools,
and he supported new legislation that would limit trans rights across the US in May.
Musk's evasive and ambiguous political views have many questioning his true beliefs and where
he stands today, as his own trans daughter may now be affected by harmful legislation.
She attended Musk's private school, Astra Nova.
Astra Nova translates to "new stars" in Latin, and it also happens to be the name of
Musk's privately-funded school, which Vivian, her twin brother Griffin,
and their other siblings attend. The Astra Nova School (previously
known as Ad Astra) opened in 2014, shortly after Musk removed his five sons from Los
Angeles' Mirman School, a K-8 school for "gifted" children, according to Quartz.
According to the publication, the private school only enrolled Musk's own and SpaceX
employees' children (by invitation only), but getting a spot is still
extremely competitive. There is no grading system and the curriculum is heavy on science, math,
engineering, robotics, and artificial intelligence.
The school's website provided some fascinating insights into its secrecy.
“The school was exclusive because it was small. It was secretive because
it wasn’t properly zoned. There were some bright kids at Ad Astra, but kindness and
eagerness to learn (and parents that worked at SpaceX) were the only criteria for admission.”
Musk gave the school US$475,000
per year in 2014 and 2015, and it is run by Joshua Dahn, one of Mirman's teachers.
Let us find out more about Musk's family.
Elon Musk's family keeps on growing.
Within the last two decades, Tesla's founder has become a father to eight
children. His first child was born in 2002, and his most recent will be born in 2021.
During that time, Musk has been in three long-term relationships and has two
children with two of those women. He has six children with Canadian author Justine Wilson
and two with singer-songwriter Grimes. After meeting as students at Queen's
University in Ontario, Canada, the SpaceX CEO married Wilson in
2000 but the couple divorced in 2008, after seven years of marriage and five children.
Elon Musk and Grimes
Musk and Grimes (real name Claire Boucher)
married in 2018 and are expecting their first child in 2020.
Despite their three-year separation in September 2021, Grimes revealed in a March 2022 Vanity Fair
interview that the couple had reconciled and welcomed another child via surrogate.
She also revealed that the couple wants more children, telling the outlet, "we've always
wanted at least three or four," but she broke up with him again the day the article was published.
Nevada Alexander
Musk and his first wife, Justine Wilson, had their first child, Nevada Alexander,
in 2002. He died of sudden infant death syndrome at the age of 10 weeks (SIDS).
"Nevada went down for a nap, placed on his back as always, and stopped breathing,"
Wilson wrote in a 2010 essay for Marie Claire. "By the time the paramedics resuscitated him,
he had been deprived of oxygen for so long that he was brain-dead."
Vivian Jenna Wilson and Griffin
In 2004, the couple welcomed twins Vivian and Griffin Musk,
who were born through in vitro fertilisation (IVF).
"I buried my feelings ... coping with Nevada's death by making my first visit to an IVF clinic
less than two months later. Elon and I planned to get pregnant again as swiftly as
possible. Within the next five years, I gave birth to twins, then triplets," she wrote.
In 2010, Justine wrote an article for Marie Claire titled “I was a starter
wife”, in which she explained how she thought their marriage was unhealthy
and claimed Musk had made fun of her and referred to himself as "the alpha in this relationship."
Justine also mentioned their first child, Nevada, who died in 2002, in the article.
Justine recently sent out an indirect but heartfelt tweet about her daughter's
coming out. “‘I had a weird childhood,’ my 18-year-old said to me. ‘I can’t believe
I’m as normal-seeming as I am.’ I said, ‘I’m very proud of you’ … ‘I’m proud of myself!’”
Damian, Kai, and Saxon Wilson had triplets named Kai,
Saxon, and Damian two years after having twins. She revealed in a 2017 TedTalk
that they were also conceived through IVF, but she and Musk have not publicly discussed the children.
Musk does not often discuss his own family, but he does have strong views on increasing
the birth rate, stating at the Wall Street Journal's annual CEO Council in December 2021
that there are "not enough people" in the world. "I think one of the biggest risks to civilization
is the low birth rate and the rapidly declining birthrate," he said. "Please look
at the numbers if people don't have more children, civilization is going to crumble, mark my words."
"Custody of our five children is split evenly," Musk said in a 2010 Business Insider op-ed.
"Almost all of my non-work waking hours are spent with my boys, and they are the love of my life."
X Æ A-12 Grimes and Musk
welcomed their first child on May 4, 2020, after the singer announced her pregnancy in
January 2020 with a photo of her baby bump. Their son X A-12, later renamed X A-Xii,
was named in part after the CIA's Lockheed A-12 reconnaissance plane.
Though nicknamed "X," Grimes broke down his pronunciation in her Instagram comment section.
"It's just X, like the letter X," she wrote. "Then A.I.," she
added. "Like how you said the letter A then I." But Musk explained the pronunciation differently,
saying on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast that "X" is spoken
"like the letter" while "the 'Æ' is pronounced like 'ash.'"
While he was proud to say that "A-12 was [his] contribution," he admitted that it was Grimes who
"mostly came up with the name." She even went into detail about the meaning behind it on Twitter.
“•X, the unknown variable •Æ, my elven spelling of
Ai (love &/or Artificial intelligence) •A-12 = precursor to SR-17 (our favorite
aircraft). No weapons, no defenses, just speed. Great in battle, but non-violent
+ (A=Archangel,
my favorite song) ( metal rat)”
Exa Dark Siderael
Grimes revealed in a Vanity Fair interview a year later that she had a baby girl via surrogate
in 2021, three months after the couple's public breakup. The singer-songwriter, Exa Dark Siderl,
explained that her name has a double meaning.
Exa refers to a supercomputing term, exaFLOPS,
while Dark represents "the unknown." She explained to the outlet, "People fear it
but truly it's the absence of photons. Dark matter is the beautiful mystery of our universe."
According to Vanity Fair, the third part of Y's full name, Siderael,
is pronounced "sigh-deer-ee-el." Grimes defined it as "the true time of the universe,
star time, deep space time, not our relative earth time."
Siderl's second meaning refers to Grimes' favourite Lord of the Rings character,
Galadriel, who "chooses to abdicate the ring."
And that’s all for today.
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Summary
In this video, we discuss Elon Musk's daughter Xavier, who wants to change her name and drop
her father's surname. She has stated that she wishes to have no connection with her father.
We also look at Elon Musk's family, learning more about his other children.