THE IMAGINED stress of running multi-billion dollar businesses makes it hard to see Elon Musk as a family man.
But Musk is the son of two entrepreneurs and the eldest cousin in a large family of corporate dynamos — even without Elon, the name Musk would probably be noteworthy today.
Errol Musk
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Errol Musk is Elon’s father and a controversial figure in his son’s life and in the eyes of the public.
Elon told rolling stone that he admired his father’s engineering genius, but also said that Errol is “such a terrible human being, you have no idea.”
errol begot a child with his stepdaughter Jane after her mother’s divorce – he first met Jane when she was four years old.
Maye Musk
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Maye Musk herself had a unique childhood – her father was an archaeologist, and the family flew around the world in a small plane.
Every summer, Maye, her twin sister Kaye, and their two other siblings scoured the Kalahari Desert in search of a lost ancient city.
According to Ashlee Vance’s biography of Elon, Maye thought her son might be deaf because he would often go into a trance-like state, shutting down the world around him.
He wasn’t deaf, he just thought very hard – Elon still does this today as he ponders complex technical issues at social events.
Maye later became a model, dietitian, author and socialite – she joked The New York Times “I was famous until Elon became famous.”
Kimbal Musk
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Kimbal Musk, 49, is known today as a South African restaurateur, chef and entrepreneur.
He owns The Kitchen Restaurant Group, which has restaurants in Colorado, Memphis, Cleveland, Indianapolis and Chicago. recover from a broken neck†
Kimbal followed his brother Elon to Canada in their late teens, and the two initially lived a challenging lifestyle, showering at the YMCA and living on the bare minimum.
During this time they worked on Zip2, Elon’s first multi-million dollar company.
Kimbal is married to Christiana Wyly, the daughter of ex-billionaire Sam Wyly.
Tosca Musk
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Tosca, 47, is a South African filmmaker who co-founded the streaming service Passionflix – the platform focused on bringing romantic novels to the big screen.
While Elon and Kimbal lived with Errol during their childhood, Tosca lived with their mother Maye.
She wrote an essay for Illustrated Sports about her mother and said of herself, “My goal is to empower women.”
The Rive . brothers
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Lyndon, Peter and Russ Rive are the sons of Maye Musk’s twin sister.
Ashlee Vance’s biography says that when they were children, Elon would do Kimbal and the Rive brothers to mischief with his knowledge of chemical explosives.
Peter and Lyndon were founders and executives at SolarCity – the company built commercial solar technologies and was acquired by Tesla in 2016 for $2.6 billion dollars.
The Rive brothers previously worked briefly at Tesla departing participate ZOLA Electrican energy company that focuses on providing sustainable energy to homes in Africa.
Justine Wilson
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Elon met Justine Wilson while they were attending Queens University in Canada.
Elon’s success with Zip2 and paypal were inflection points in their relationship – he had always had ambition, but suddenly Wilson was dating a successful entrepreneur and not an ambitious entrepreneur.
While they were dancing at their wedding reception, Elon told Wilson, “I’m the alpha in this relationship,” according to an essay Wilson wrote for Marie Claire titled “I was a starter woman†
Wilson and Musk’s first child, a boy named Nevada Alexander, died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome at the age of 10 weeks.
Vivian Jenna Wilson
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Vivian Jenna Wilson – born Xavier Alexander Musk – was born in 2004 along with twin brother Griffin to Elon and Justine.
The 18-year-old has filed legal documents requesting that her name be changed to Vivian Jenna Wilson, according to an April filing with the California Superior Court, TMZ reported†
Vivian dismissed her father in the document, writing, “I no longer live with my biological father or wish to be related to my biological father in any way.”
Elon has been accused of it dismissive of transgenderism and the use of alternative pronouns.
The Billionaire Ever tweeted “I’m definitely in favor of trans, but all these pronouns are an aesthetic nightmare.”
Talulah Riley
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Actress Talulah Riley married and divorced Musk twice in six years.
Ashlee Vance’s biography says that when Musk first met, Riley showed Riley photos and videos of SpaceX rockets in a geeky attempt at flirting.
Musk said after their first divorce “We took a break for a few months to see if absence makes the heart grow, and sadly it doesn’t. I still love her, but I’m not in love with her.”
They remarried in 2013, and their second divorce, initiated by Riley, was finalized in 2016.
Grimes
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Grimes – real name Claire Boucher – dated Musk from 2018 to 2021.
In May 2020, they welcomed a son, but caused controversy with the choice of name – X Æ A-12 – and were forced by California authorities to change it to X AE A-XII because it contained symbols not in the alphabet. to prevent.
The couple then used a surrogate mother to give birth to their daughter, Exa Dark Siderael — aka Y — who was born in December.
When they were in a romantic relationship, Grimes said of their relationship, “I’d probably call him my boyfriend, but we’re very fluid.”
Amber heard
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Amber Heard and Elon shared a hot and furious romance from 2016 to 2017, but Heard’s ex Johnny Depp believed they were linked before.
Depp appeared to threaten Musk, writing: “Let’s see if Mollusk has a pair, come see me in person. I’ll show him things he’s never seen before, like the other side of his dick when I cut it out .”
A source told the Post on Sunday when Heard and Musk broke up, “It’s all over between Amber and Elon and she’s devastated. It was his decision.”
Floki Musk
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Musk owns a Shiba Inu named Floki.
The Japanese breed is the mascot for the cryptocurrency Dogecoin.
Musk tweeted that he would buy a Shiba Inu during the heyday of the rise of the penny crypto – he has since been referred to as the defendant in a lawsuit over Dogecoin†
Elon Musk’s family is very enterprising and his relationships with women are piping hot.
To think that all the rockets, electric cars, relationships and controversies started with a school kid in South Africa is quite a journey.
SHIVON ZILIS
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On July 6, it turned out that the The founder of SpaceX had welcomed two more children with a female top manager at his company Neuralink.
Shivon Zilis36, is the third woman with whom the entrepreneur has had children.
Musk met Zilis through her work with OpenAI, the nonprofit organization Musk co-founded in 2015.
Elon appeared to acknowledge the births with a tweet jokingly saying he is trying to help Earth’s “underpopulated crisis”
“A collapsing birth rate is by far the greatest danger facing civilization.”
He added: “Mark my words, they are unfortunately true.”