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Elon Musk’s transgender daughter has filed court papers to legally change her name to Vivian Jenna Wilson. Image via Twitter @reportdailys @nypost

Meet Elon Musk’s trans child who is cutting all ties with billionaire dad

After splitting from his ex-wife in 2008, Elon Musk said he spent all his ‘non-work’ time with his seven children. So, what happened here?

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Elon Musk’s transgender daughter has filed court papers to legally change her name to Vivian Jenna Wilson. Image via Twitter @reportdailys @nypost

On Wednesday 21 June, it was reported that Elon Musk’s son Xavier, who has announced a decision to become a woman, filed court papers in Santa Monica, California, to change her gender identity and drop the Musk surname.

According to the court papers, Xavier list the following as her reasons for her shock decision: “Gender identity and the fact that I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form”.

She is changing her name to Vivian Jenna Wilson. The last name was her mom Justine Musk’s former surname. Despite the fact that the billionaire’s daughter is transgender, Musk was called out for “mocking pronouns” on Twitter in 2020.

Here’s what you need to know about the 18-year-old. 

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1. WHO IS VIVIAN JENNA WILSON’S MOTHER? 

Vivian Jenna Wilson is the child of SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk and Canadian author Justine Wilson, who met when they were university students at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada.

The 18-year-old is one of Musk and Wilson’s five children. 

2. ELON AND JUSTINE’S TROUBLE WITH CONCEIVING 

Elon and Justine’s first child, Nevada Alexander, died in 2002 at 10 weeks old due to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). In an essay published by Marie Clare, Justine said after Nevada’s death, the two planned to get pregnant “as swiftly as possible” adding that her ex-husband refused to speak about the child’s death. 

“I buried my feelings instead, coping with Nevada’s death by making my first visit to an IVF clinic less than two months later.”

“Within the next five years, I gave birth to twins, then triplets, and I sold three novels to Penguin and Simon & Shuster,” wrote Justine. 

Elon and Justin are parents to Damien, Kai, Saxon, Griffin and Xavier Musk (Vivian Jenna Wilson). 

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3. FIVE CHILDREN ‘LOVE OF’ ELON’S LIFE 

In his own essay published in BusinessInsider in 2010, Elon Musk said he and Justine share custody of their five children. At the time, the South African-born businessman said most of his living expenses went towards nanny salaries and supporting Justine and the children. 

“Almost all of my non-work waking hours are spent with my boys and they are the love of my life.” 

Musk also has two children with Canadian musician Grimes.