Elon Musk’s daughter Vivian Wilson is making things work without her dad’s financial help.
The model was candid about money in a profile for The Cut, where she revealed how being estranged from her father, and his billions, has shaped her college decisions and living situation.
“People assume I have a lot of money,” she shared. “I don’t have hundreds of thousands of dollars at my disposal.”
Though she acknowledged her mom, novelist Justine Wilson, was “rich,” she told The Cut she tries not to ask her for help that often.
Wilson then added how Musk, whom she never referred to by name or as “dad” during the interview, was “unimaginable degrees of wealthy.”
Talking about her plans to attend community college in Los Angeles this fall, she said, “College is expensive. I don’t have that inheritance.”
Elon Musk’s daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson (right) is seen with drag queen Jasmine Kennedieon May 8. Wilson revealed what life is like without an inheritance from her father in a new interview.
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Wilson, who came out as transgender when she was 16, was attending university in Canada when she had a very public fallout with her father after he deadnamed her during an anti-trans podcast tirade in 2024. In the same interview, he told author and podcast host Jordan B. Peterson that his child had been “killed by the woke mind virus.”
She shot back in a series of vicious posts on Threads, where she wrote, “I don’t concern myself with the opinions of those who are below me. Obviously Elon can’t say the same because in a ketamine-fueled haze, he’s desperate for attention and validation from an army of degenerate red-pilled incels and pick-mes who are quick to give it to him.”
Elsewhere during the interview, Wilson revealed how she lives with three roommates in Los Angeles, calling it “cheaper” than renting somewhere solo.
But the 21-year-old made it clear she was doing fine on her own, telling The Cut, “I don’t have a desire to be superrich. 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.”
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After the interview’s release, Wilson pushed back on stories which seemed to mischaracterize her comments about money.
Posting a screenshot of a New York Post story which claimed Wilson called herself “broke” in the article, she wrote, “Uhm… no? No I haven’t? I’ve never claimed to be broke? What the fuck are you talking about?”
“I’m doing pretty okay for myself in my career,” she wrote in a follow-up. “I’m not super fucking rich but I can afford to live in Los Angeles on my own income so I’d say I’m doing well. Why tf would I lie about that lmfao.”