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Elon Musk’s daughter Vivian Wilson storms off mid-interview when asked about estranged father
Elon Musk’s estranged daughter Vivian Wilson abruptly walked away from a red carpet interview when she was asked about her billionaire father.
Wilson, who came out as transgender in 2020, was speaking with a reporter at a Desigual Vintage event in Ibiza, Spain, on Tuesday when the conversation turned to the Tesla CEO.
“Your father the best, no?” the reporter asked.
“My what? Sorry?” Wilson, 22, replied.
The reporter repeated the question, saying, “The best, your father.”
“OK,” Wilson responded before ending the interview and storming off, according to social media footage.
The exchange is the latest public reminder of the years-long rift between Wilson and the entrepreneur.
The model, who has dropped Musk from her name, legally changed her gender in 2022 and has repeatedly criticized her father, saying she wants no relationship with him.
In court filings in 2022, she said she “no longer wishes to be related” to Musk. Since then, both have spoken openly about their fractured relationship.
Musk said in a 2023 interview with author Walter Isaacson that Wilson had become “a full communist” and blamed her politics in part on the private K-12 school she attended in Santa Monica, Calif.
The SpaceX founder later claimed he was “tricked” into signing documents related to Wilson’s gender transition.
“I lost my son, essentially,” Musk told Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson in 2024.
“They call it ‘deadnaming’ for a reason. The reason they call it ‘deadnaming’ is because your son is dead, so my son, Xavier, is dead, killed by the woke mind virus.”
Wilson responded by accusing Musk of being largely absent during her childhood.
“He doesn’t know what I was like as a child because he quite simply wasn’t there,” she told NBC News. “And in the little time that he was I was relentlessly harassed for my femininity and queerness.”
She also described Musk as “uncaring” and “narcissistic” and said she had little interest in maintaining contact with him.
“I want to make absolutely clear that I have disowned him and not the other way around,” she later wrote on Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads.
More recently, Wilson opened up about growing up as the child of one of the world’s richest men, calling the experience “isolating” and “strange.”
“It was a very strange experience, very isolating,” she told Cosmopolitan in an interview published in April.
“I remember being very young and seeing homelessness and feeling sick to my stomach. People would get on me for being like a dramatic little child. But no, I was right to be a dramatic little s–t about that.”
Wilson is one of Musk’s oldest children. She and her twin brother, Griffin, were born in California in 2004 during Musk’s marriage to author Justine Wilson.
Musk has welcomed 14 children over the years with ex-wife Wilson, musician Grimes, Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis and influencer Ashley St. Clair.
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