Elon Musk was married to actress Talulah Riley
Elon Musk has a complicated family tree and now has plans to make it even more unconventional.
The tech mogul, who has been plotting the world’s first mega tunnel connecting the UK and New York, has at least 11 children with three different mothers and has reportedly splashed out on a 14,400 square ft compound in Texas just to accommodate them all.
According to people close to Musk, he envisions his children living next-door to one another so he can ‘schedule’ time with them efficiently around his hectic schedule running several major companies. Sources have said he is keen for his brood to also spend more quality sibling time together, despite one daughter being estranged from him.
Musk has at least 11 children, born to three different women (
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According to The New York Times, the world’s richest man, who will now be co-leading Donald Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency, spent around $35million (£27.5million) on two properties to house two of his ex-partners and his kids in. Insiders told the publication that they are conveniently located around a 10-minute walk from a third mansion Musk regularly stays in.
Musk welcomed six children with his first wife, Canadian novelist Justine Wilson, whom he married between 2000 and 2008. Tragically, the former couple lost their first child, a son named Nevada Alexander, in 2002, after he passed away from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) when he was just 10 weeks old.
Opening up about her grief in a piece penned for Marie Claire, Justine wrote: “I buried my feelings … coping with Nevada’s death by making my first visit to an IVF clinic less than two months later. Elon and I planned to get pregnant again as swiftly as possible. Within the next five years, I gave birth to twins, then triplets.”
The billionaire reportedly wants his younger children to spend more time together (
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Musk’s transgender daughter Vivian is estranged from her famous father (
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In 2004, Musk welcomed twins Vivian and Griffin through IVF, with triplets Kai, Saxon, and Damian arriving in 2006. Vivian, who legally changed her name and gender back in 2022, recently spoke out about her future in the US. She wrote on Threads: “I don’t see my future in the United States. Even if [Trump is] only in office for four years, even if the anti-trans regulations magically don’t happen, the people who willingly voted this in are not going anywhere anytime soon.”
Musk went on to expand his family during his on-off relationship with musician Claire Boucher, best known to fans as Grimes. And this time around, the couple got very creative with names. Little X Æ A-Xii was born in May 2020, followed by Exa Dark Sideræl, who they welcomed with the help of a surrogate in December 2021.
Another child, Techno Mechanicus, was also born to the pair in 2022, after Elon told The New York Post that they had ‘semi separated’. Offering an insight into Musk’s parenting style in a 2023 interview with Wired, Grimes, 36, shared: “I think their life is gonna be pretty intense. Being Elon’s kid is not the same as being anyone’s kid. In my house, at least, I want it to be more of a crazy warehouse situation and a cool art space.”
The Texas compound intends to bring the different strands of his family together (
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The tech mogul plans to schedule in time with his brood, according to sources (
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Reflecting on what she felt Musk had learned from her, Grimes, who describes her ex as someone with an ‘old-world kind of discipline’, told the publication: “Maybe to have more fun. I try to soften him up, to build family culture. And he steals a lot of my memes.”
However, although their split initially appeared amicable, NBC News reports that Musk and Grimes’ relationship took a frosty turn last year amid a custody battle when the billionaire allegedly refused to let Grimes see their children.
Musk also shares twins Strider and Azure with project director Shivon Zilis, with the children arriving in 2021, mere weeks before the birth of his and Grimes’ third child. Earlier this year, Musk and Neurolink exec Shivon, 38, welcomed their third child together earlier this year, but have not made the gender or birth date publicly known. The Austen American Statesman reports that Shivon and her three kids have already moved onto the Austin compound, while Justine and her children are expected to join them.
Musk has previously made his thoughts clear on the topic of having large families. Taking to X back in May, he warned followers: “Just have kids one way or another or humanity will die with a whimper in adult diapers! I’m doing my best to encourage more people to become parents and ideally have three or more kids, so humanity can grow.”
