On a leafy residential street in Austin, Texas, Elon Musk is creating something the New York Times calls it an “unusual family complex” that he reportedly hopes could in the future be inhabited by his eleven known children and their three moms.
However, it seems that at the very least two of those “mothers” – his first wife Justine Musk and his ex-partner Claire Boucher, aka musician Grimes – have shown little interest in the property, at the very least for now, based on the New York Times.
Additionally, at the very least one in every of Musk's older children is estranged from him – his 20-year-old daughter Vivian Wilson, who has publicly denounced his patriarchal ambitions, declaring, “You are not a family man.”
In a story published Tuesday The New York Times delves into the pronatalist ambitions of the world's richest man and by Donald Trump’s “most important campaign supporter.” Pronatalists, from each the Christian right and Silicon Valley, imagine that individuals must have as many children as possible, although they disagree about reproduce.
Musk has eschewed traditional marriage and has reportedly offered to donate his sperm for IVF purposes to varied women, including Nicole Shanahan, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vice chairman, the Times reported. Musk desires to proceed having children and contributing to the expansion of the world's population.
People near Musk also said he was “only half joking” when he offered to impregnate Taylor Swift in September. The offer got here in a post on his X social media platform after the pop star expressed her support for Kamala Harris and signed her endorsement “Childless Cat Lady.”
In a way, Musk's existential fears are about declining population rates in some developed countries – although the world's population is predicted grow by 2 billion over the subsequent 60 years — are reflected within the complex he created from two properties within the upscale Austin neighborhood, based on the Times.
His $35 million estate consists of a 14,400-square-foot Tuscan-style mansion and a second six-bedroom mansion. Musk has reportedly told people near him that he envisions the 2 moms of his children, Grimes and Shivon Zilis, occupying the adjoining properties. That way, the six young children he had with the 2 women may very well be a part of one another's lives and Musk could balance time between the 2 households.
Musk would also prefer to make room on his estate for his first wife, creator Justine Musk, with whom he has five children, all of their late teens or older, the Times said. But in a 2010 essay for Elle Justine Musk described herself as “estranged” from her ex-husband, saying he once insisted he needed to be “the alpha” of their marriage.
Grimes has since moved from Austin and is engaged in a protracted legal battle with the billionaire over custody of her three young children, at the very least one in every of whom was born through surrogacy. She avoids the realm, the Times reported.
Tensions between Grimes and Musk appeared to have flared over his relationship with Zilis, an executive at Neuralink, Musk's brain technology startup. In 2021, without Grimes' knowledge, Musk donated sperm to Zilis, who became pregnant with twins through IVF, three people aware of the couple told the Times. That same 12 months, Musk and Grimes were expecting a second child, also conceived through IVF but carried by a surrogate mother.
According to creator Walter Isaacson's biography of Musk, the 2 women, who were friends, were also unknowingly in the identical hospital in Austin around the identical time. The Times said Zilis gave birth to twins in late 2021, weeks before Grimes' second child was born. The musician only discovered that Musk had fathered Zilis' children a month after their birth.
Such reports appear to substantiate Vivian Wilson's claim that her father is “not a family man” but “a serial adulterer.”
Wilson spoke out against Musk in August after he gave an interview with controversial Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson. Musk blamed estrangement from his daughter, who’s transgender. about how she was “dead, killed by the woke mind virus.”
Over the summer, Musk had develop into a vocal opponent of transgender rights and gender-affirming care as he embraced features of the right-wing agenda, leading him to declare his enthusiastic support for Trump in July.
To Topics Wilson let or not it’s known that she was secure and sound and was not willing to let her father proceed to “lie about her own children.”
Wilson condemned his South African-born father for portraying himself as a job model for family values or for equality and progress. “You are not a Christian, as far as I know you have never set foot in a church. They are not a 'bastion of equality/progress,'” she said.
Wilson also disputed Musk's claim that he is saving the planet, either by starting his electric car company or by launching SpaceX to colonize Mars in case Earth one day becomes uninhabitable.
As for Musk's pronatalist “birth rate stuff,” Wilson said she wouldn't touch this “weird…breeder (expletive) with a 10-foot pole.”
“You have single-handedly disillusioned me with how gullible we are as a species because people somehow continue to believe you for reasons that continue to elude me,” Wilson concluded.
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