{"id":152073,"date":"2025-09-21T23:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T23:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/152073\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T23:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T23:51:11","slug":"elon-musks-estranged-daughter-says-shes-been-financially-independent-since-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/152073\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s estranged daughter says she\u2019s been \u2018financially independent\u2019 since March"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Elon Musk<\/a>\u2019s estranged oldest child, Vivian Wilson<\/a>, has opened up about her financial status. <\/p>\n

On Saturday, the 21-year-old<\/a> spoke at Teen Vogue\u2019s 2025 Summit, revealing that despite any assumptions made about her, she fully makes her own money and doesn\u2019t receive any help from her father, who is the richest man in the world. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m financially independent,\u201d she said at the summit. \u201cI\u2019m making money now. Pre-Teen Vogue [cover], no. People have a lot of assumptions, and you just kinda have to deal with that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilson was referring to the Teen Vogue cover she appeared on in March this year, where she talked about the current presidential administration and what it means to be a young transgender woman.<\/p>\n

Her comments after telling The Cut in an interview from earlier this month<\/a> that she does not have as much money as people think she does.<\/p>\n

\"\u2018People\u2018People have a lot of assumptions, and you just kinda have to deal with that,\u2019 Wilson said (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople assume I have a lot of money, I don\u2019t have hundreds of thousands of dollars at my disposal,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

Refusing to even utter her father\u2019s name, she continued: \u201cMy mom is rich, right? But obviously the other one is unimaginable degrees of wealthy.\u201d<\/p>\n

An aspiring model and translator, Musk\u2019s first child with his first wife Justine Wilson, a best-selling author, also told the magazine she has enrolled in community college this fall.<\/p>\n

\u201cCollege is expensive,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t have that kind of inheritance.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have a desire to be super rich,\u201d Wilson elaborated. \u201cI 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

Wilson came out to her parents as transgender in 2022 and quickly found herself caught up in the culture wars, notably when the Tesla, SpaceX and X boss told far-right academic Jordan Peterson during a 2024 interview that she had been \u201ckilled by the woke mind virus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilson pointedly responded to her father on Threads, not X, by saying: \u201cLast time I checked I am, indeed, not dead. I don\u2019t concern myself with the opinions of those who are below me. ….he\u2019s desperate for attention and validation from an army of degenerate red-pilled incels and pick-me\u2019s who are quick to give it to him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Subsequently giving her first interview to NBC, she described the billionaire entrepreneur as \u201cquick to anger,\u201d \u201cuncaring,\u201d and \u201cnarcissistic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilson later told Teen Vogue<\/a>: \u201cI don\u2019t give a f*** about him. I really don\u2019t. It\u2019s annoying that people associate me with him. I just don\u2019t have any room to care anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-152073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}