X, 4 and a half years old, Elon Musk's favorite child

Repopulate the planet, colonize Mars and “destroy the woke virus”. These are more or less Elon Musk's obsessions. However, the man who will soon be at the head of the future department of “governmental efficiency” of the United States has another passion: his son, named X. Not to be confused with Space said, also a bit of his “baby”).

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At the age of 4 and a half, the blonde with blue eyes is already in the media and very often appears alongside his father. We saw X at work meetings, in the Austin paddock during the United States Formula 1 Grand Prix, on official visits (including to Auschwitz)… But the first time we saw him dates back to November 2021. He was a little over a year old then and we discovered him on Elon Musk's lap, at the start of a videoconference.

A month later, the entrepreneur repeated the experience by going on stage at Time Magazine with his son. Answering questions from editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal, he is invited to New York to speak about his nomination as Personality of the Year 2021. And that day, everyone only has eyes for little Musk.

Inseparable duo

Since then, the appearances of X have multiplied. In April 2023, it was again accompanied by his son that Elon Musk arrived at a round table at the Fontainebleau hotel in Miami. As if father and son were one… The little boy recently made headlines again by appearing in Donald Trump's “family photo”, the day after his victory. Still in the arms of his illustrious father.

X seems, in any case, the only one to have this preferential treatment from Elon Musk. His 11 other children (one of whom died after 10 days of existence) are, for their part, unknown to the general public. Except for his transgender daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson, who regularly attacks him on social media.

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First name full of symbols

X was born on May 4, 2020, in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic. It is the fruit of the lunar love story between Elon Musk and the pop-goth singer Grimes. The couple formed in 2018 and everything will go very quickly. In 2020, Grimes (real name Claire Boucher) gave birth to a baby boy. Its name: X AE A-XII. If many initially believe it to be a joke, the Canadian musician will reveal its meaning in a publication posted on May 6, 2020. She thus declares that this first name could not be more serious: Elvish spelling of Ai, meaning love and/or artificial intelligence, A-XII for Archangel 12, the coolest plane on the planet according to Musk. But because it's simpler, they call it “X” in everyday life.

Its name therefore owes nothing to chance. Moreover, you will have noticed: the “X” is today omnipresent in Elon Musk’s galaxy. We obviously think of Space X, its space company which has managed to rise to the rank of NASA. The company xAI, the latest addition which wants to compete with OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT. We can also make the connection with the social network X, the new name that the businessman gave to Twitter after buying it.

Another detail that may not be one: . Does the serial entrepreneur attach importance to it? He has never expressed himself on this point. But given his whimsical personality, the question remains unanswered.

Raised away from his mother

If we are to believe the latest confidences from his mother Grimes, Custody of the three children is also the subject of a legal battle between the artist and the richest man on the planet. “I spent a year fighting in a state with terrible mother's rights, having my Instagram posts and my modeling job used as a reason for me not to see my children, fighting and break away from the love of my life (Elon Musk, Editor's note) while he becomes unrecognizable,” she said in a desperate tweet on November 20, assuring that she had not seen her babies “for five months.” Today, Elon Musk seems to have cut ties with his eldest children, fruits of his marriage to his first wife Justine Wilson (ex-Musk). With X, perhaps he is simply trying to rectify the situation. Or prepare for the next generation?

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