Vivian Wilson wants the world to know she’s doing just fine on her own.<\/p>\n
The media personality and model just cleared up any misconceptions around how much of her father\u2019s $480 billion net worth she gets access to, E! reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m financially independent,\u201d Elon Musk’s estranged daughter, 21, said this weekend during a panel at the 2025 Teen Vogue Summit. \u201cI\u2019m making money now.\u201d<\/p>\n She added during the Saturday, September 20 panel, “People have a lot of assumptions, and you just kinda have to deal with that.”<\/p>\n Earlier this month, Wilson \u2014 whose mother is Musk’s ex-wife, Justine Wilson \u2014 told New York Magazine’s The Cut<\/a> that she doesn\u2019t reap the financial benefits of being her father\u2019s daughter.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t have that inheritance,\u201d she said in the profile piece that was published on September 2. \u201cPeople assume I have a lot of money. I don\u2019t have hundreds of thousands of dollars at my disposal.\u201d<\/p>\n Wilson added, \u201cI don\u2019t have a desire to be super rich. 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.\u201d<\/p>\n Earlier this month, Wilson took center stage at New York Fashion Week<\/a> with her first appearance on the runway.<\/p>\n The transgender model joined Alexis Bittar\u2019s \u201cMISS USA 1991\u201d presentation on September 12, marking her official NYFW debut. Wilson was selected to represent South Carolina in the show, which carried a deeper message about trans visibility and rights.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, her dad, 54, can be spotted in a new documentary about Kanye West<\/a> that hit theaters this weekend. In Whose Name? promises an unfiltered look at the controversial rapper’s life, including all the struggles and chaos, and takes place over six years of his life.<\/p>\n Donald Trump, Kim Kardashian, Drake, Lady Gaga, LeBron James and Pharrell Williams also appear in the documentary.<\/p>\n This story was originally reported by Parade<\/a> on Sep 22, 2025, where it first appeared in the News<\/a> section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vivian Wilson wants the world to know she’s doing just fine on her own. The media personality and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,516,156,33882,33881,901,33883,111,139,69,515],"class_list":["post-36546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-elon-musk","tag-entertainment","tag-financially-independent","tag-justine-wilson","tag-lebron-james","tag-media-personality","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-vivian-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}