Elon Musk's family: a puzzle 'incompatible' with someone as 'conservative' as he is

BarcelonaThe Latin American soap operas of the late nineties were difficult to follow due to the complex relationships that some – or many… – of their protagonists maintained. That complexity, which seemed dead and buried in those very particular fictions, now returns in the form of a tragicomedy thanks to the news about the personal life of Elon Musk, the richest man in the world.

Donald Trump's close friend, who like the American president rallies the most conservative layers of society inside and outside his country, has created a family that does not in any way resemble the ideal family that he and his political allies – whose electoral campaigns he abundantly finances – currently have. Currently, the owner of Tesla and SpaceX has 13 children born from his relationships with four different women over the last two decades. But don't worry: there won't be any problem with maintenance, Musk has been the richest man in the world since January, when he surpassed Jeff Bezos, the owner of Amazon, with whom he usually goes shoulder to shoulder. His fortune is estimated at approximately 400 billion dollars. If it's about money, at 53 years old he still has the energy to end up repopulating half the planet. Especially if he takes after his father, who is 79 years old and whose last child was born four years ago. One daddy textbook with a fairly young son Julio Iglesias. They are their Anglo-Saxon version, we could say.

An extended (and complex) family

Elon Musk married Justine Wilson in 2000. During their marriage she carried his surname, but once they separated, she quickly dropped it due to the low esteem she had for her ex. She was Canadian and met Musk at Queen's University (the technologist is the son of a Canadian and a South African). The tech magnate and the writer married and had six children together: Nevada Alexander (a boy who died a few weeks after being born from sudden death), twins Griffin and Vivian (who are now 20 years old) and triplets Kai, Saxon and Damian (19 years old). The death of the firstborn is said to have led the couple to a fertility clinic and to have so many children in a row. After divorcing in 2008, Musk began a relationship with the artist Grimes, 17 years his junior, who is a musician – no joke: she was awarded a Pitchfork prize in 2014 – and with whom he had three children with names that, although they may seem nice, are ii (who they call X and who went viral this week in the Oval Office with Donald Trump because he told him he was not the president of the United States), Exa Dark Sideræl (who is three years old and is already called Y) and Techno Mechanicus (who they call Tau and who is 2 years old). Little Y was born via surrogate pregnancy and it was not known that little Tau existed until the child was already a year and a half old. The relationship between Grimes and Musk was official between 2018 and 2021. During this time she defined it as "fluid", which was confirmed by the facts, since after announcing their breakup – in September 2021 – they had their children Y and Tau... Their "fluid" relationship ended after it was later declared over.

Musk also has three children with Shivon Zilis, who held a management position at a company he owned called Neuralink. Their first two children are named Azure and Strider, and were born in November 2021, two months after he gave birth. I would leave with Grimas. The third child is a boy born in 2023, whose name is unknown. It has been revealed that their relationship is neither romantic nor sexual, since the three children they share are the result of insemination. in vitro Because she is his employee, they cannot have a romantic or sexual relationship that would contravene the company's internal rules. In fact, she continues to work for him and recently accompanied him during the visit he shared with the President of India, Narendra Modi. Zilis is a brilliant woman who studied at Yale and has worked for Musk for years: first at Tesla and now at Neuralink. She is Canadian, 39 years old and an expert in AI.

Finally, Musk's picturesque family concludes with an unconfirmed son that he would have had with the influencer Ashley St. Clair, who revealed this week that she became a mother five months ago as a result of her relationship with the businessman. As she explained on social media, St. Clair is revealing this now because she would have known that the "sensationalist media" would have discovered this fact and that they would be about to publish it "despite the damage that this could cause." Although Musk has not made any comment on the matter, it is not the first time that he has been linked to this young woman, who is 31 years old and is known for spreading politically close content to Trumpism. Without children, Musk's relationships with the British actress Talulah Riley, who is now 39 years old and who married the businessman twice, are also famous. They were married between 2010 and 2012 and between 2014 and 2016. The millionaire's relationship with the actress Amber Heard was also notorious because during the controversial divorce It was learned that a love triangle had formed between her and Johnny Depp, with all three of them as members.

Disputes with his daughter Vivian

But beyond the numbers, the family Musk has created also stands out for issues such as the poor relationship he has with his older children, who know that he did not treat their mother with respect when they divorced, as she has explained publicly. Particularly well-known is the lack of contact between the tycoon and his daughter Vivian, known by the name of Xavier before making the transition. Vivian uses her mother's maiden name, Wilson, and has had to put up with her biological father appearing in the media – he did so in a interview last summer in the media The Daily Wire– to say stupid things like: "I lost my son, basically. They call him deadnaming for some reason: because your son is dead. [...] My son Xavier is dead, killed by the virus woke". Vivian, who recounted several deplorable situations with her father due to her trans status when she stopped using his last name, has said that she will leave the US because it is "no longer a safe country."

Father of her grandson

Musk's flawed relationship with some of his children is a faithful enough representation of the one he has with his father, Errol Musk, 79. Errol and Elon Musk's mother, model Maye Musk, had three children before divorcing in 1979: Elon, Kimbal – who married on the Costa Brava in 2018, as reported by ARA – and Tosca. After the break-up, Errol began a relationship with Heidi-Mari Musk, who when he met her already had a four-year-old daughter named Jana Bezuidenhoit. Seven years after the break-up with Heidi-Mari, with whom he was married for 18 years, it was revealed that Errol had left a son with his stepdaughter Jana, who had grown up with him throughout her childhood and adolescence. Although he said that Jana had not grown up with him – he claimed that the girl had lived with her father – Elon Musk confirmed in an interview that this had not been the case.

Although it was revealed three years late, Errol and Jana had a son named Elliot in 2017. She was 29 years old at the time and he was 71. The case was very controversial because with that birth Errol became the father of his grandson. And if this were not enough, the two biological daughters he had had with Heidi-Mari became aunts and sisters at the same time to that child. Not happy with the results of this mess, in 2019 the millionaire mining businessman Errol and his former stepdaughter had another child, a girl named Emily. The result of all this reproduction so random Errol, Elon Musk has reportedly stopped talking to his father, whom he described in an interview some time ago as "a terrible person." As terrible as some of his children must believe him to be? Maybe... What is horrible is the headache that this puzzle has caused me. erotic-reproductive from the Musks. Today I have earned the vermouth, the bravas and the paracetamol.