Elon Musk’s Daughter Vivian Doesn’t Have a ‘Desire to Be Superrich’

Despite being the daughter of one of the richest men in the world, Vivian Wilson doesn’t want to be super wealthy.

The 21-year-old estranged daughter of Elon Musk and ex-wife Justine Wilson spoke with The Cut and shared that she’s interested in returning to college this fall to continue her study of foreign languages. However, Wilson admitted that “college is expensive” and that she doesn’t “have that inheritance.”

“People assume I have a lot of money. I don’t have hundreds of thousands of dollars at my disposal,” she explained.

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“My mom is rich, right?” Wilson continued, adding that she wants to save her money and hopes not to rely on her mother. “But obviously the other one [Musk] is unimaginable degrees of wealthy.”

Wilson went on to add that she lives with three roommates because it’s “cheaper.”

“I don’t have a desire to be superrich,” she explained. “I can afford food. I have friends, a shelter and some expendable income, which is nice and much more fortunate than most people my age in Los Angeles.”

Wilson has been vocal about her fractured relationship with her Tesla CEO father in the past. In a March interview with Teen Vogue, Wilson — who is one of Musk’s 14 children with four different women — addressed her many siblings and admitted that she doesn’t really know how many siblings she has as more and more of them keep becoming public.

“Well, I have four of them,” Wilson said when asked about her siblings, referencing Musk’s four kids with Wilson. “I’m tied for oldest. But when we fought, it wasn’t really with words. There was a lot of…I have four siblings. We’re going to leave it at that, honey.”

When asked if she’s on good terms with her siblings, Wilson candidly said, “That’s a question.”

“I will say I do not actually know how many siblings I have, if you include half-siblings. That’s just a fun fact. It’s really good for two truths and a lie. I found out about the Shivon Zilis thing the same time everyone else did,” she said, referencing Musk and Zilis’ three kids. “I had no idea before that.”

Musk first became a father in 2002 when Wilson welcomed their son Nevada Alexander, who tragically died at 10 weeks old. The two went on to have five more children: twins Vivian and Griffin, 20, and triplets Kai, Saxon and Damian, 19.

In 2020, two years after Musk and singer Grimes were first linked, the two announced they had welcomed their first child, X Æ A-12, together. The former couple share two more children, a girl, Exa Dark Sideræl, and a boy, Techno Mechanicus. A few weeks before the arrival of their second child, the tech CEO also secretly fathered twins, Strider and Azure, with Zilis, who’s an executive at one of his companies, Neuralink, in November 2021, according to court documents published by Insider. The pair then welcomed daughter Arcadia in February 2024. 

In February 2025, author Ashley St. Clair revealed that she and Musk had welcomed a child. Zilis then announced that she and Musk had secretly welcomed baby No. 4, son Seldon Lycurgus, though it’s unclear when.