who are the three mothers of his 12 children?

This Monday, January 20, Elon Musk should be in the front row of Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony. But in fact, who are the mothers of his many children, and what are their relationships today?

Since his purchase of the Twitter platform, renamed Monday January 20. A lover of controversies and the subject of numerous rumors, Elon Musk has an unusual personal life. In fact, he has 12 children in total, whom he had with three Canadian women. First of all, Justine Wilson, whom he married in 2000 and with whom he had seven children – one of whom died very young. Then the singer Grimes, met in 2018, who gave him three children, and finally Shivon Zilis, in a relationship with him since 2021, who is the mother of his last three children.

Fervent supporter of an unbridled birth rate between “people with high IQs”as revealed le Wall Street JournalElon Musk met his first partner, Justine Wilson, at the end of the 1990s. The young woman was then a literature student. Today, the one who gave triplets, then twice twins to the billionaire, has become a novelist. The singer Grimes, renowned for her eccentricity, is seventeen years younger than her ex-companion, and seems to share his taste for unusual first names: their three children are called X Æ A-XII (nicknamed X), Exa Dark Sideræl (nicknamed Y) and Techno Mechanicus (nicknamed Tau). As for the mother of her last pair of twins and the youngest, Shivon Zilis, she is a senior executive in her start-up Neuralink.

Elon Musk: what is his relationship with the mothers of his children?

If Elon Musk is delighted to have so many children, for whom he has just bought a superb home, the fact is that we cannot say that harmony reigns in this blended family. On the contrary, there are many areas of dispute. His first companion, Justine Wilson, denounced “toxic behaviors” on his part, explaining that he would have blamed her for not being able to recover from the brutal death of their firstborn, Nevada. Grimes, meanwhile, has complained numerous times on Twitter, accusing Elon Musk of preventing her from seeing her children. And that's without counting Vivian, the billionaire's transgender daughter, today estranged from the man who does not hesitate to proclaim about her: “My son is dead…” For family dinner, we'll come back.

Article written with the collaboration of 6Médias