Elon Musk’s daughter Vivian Wilson is making issues work with out her dad’s monetary assist.
The mannequin was candid about cash in a profile for The Cut, the place she revealed how being estranged from her father, and his billions, has formed her faculty selections and dwelling scenario.
“Individuals assume I’ve some huge cash,” she shared. “I don’t have a whole bunch of 1000’s of {dollars} at my disposal.”
Although she acknowledged her mother, novelist Justine Wilson, was “wealthy,” she advised The Lower she tries to not ask her for assist that usually.
Wilson then added how Musk, whom she by no means referred to by identify or as “dad” in the course of the interview, was “unimaginable levels of rich.”
Speaking about her plans to attend group faculty in Los Angeles this fall, she mentioned, “School is dear. I don’t have that inheritance.”
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Wilson, who got here out as transgender when she was 16, was attending college in Canada when she had a really public fallout along with her father after he deadnamed her throughout an anti-trans podcast tirade in 2024. In the identical interview, he advised creator and podcast host Jordan B. Peterson that his baby had been “killed by the woke thoughts virus.”
She shot again in a collection of vicious posts on Threads, the place she wrote, “I don’t concern myself with the opinions of those that are under me. Clearly Elon can’t say the identical as a result of in a ketamine-fueled haze, he’s determined for consideration and validation from a military of degenerate red-pilled incels and pick-mes who’re fast to offer it to him.”
Elsewhere in the course of the interview, Wilson revealed how she lives with three roommates in Los Angeles, calling it “cheaper” than renting someplace solo.
However the 21-year-old made it clear she was doing advantageous on her personal, telling The Lower, “I don’t have a want to be superrich. I can afford meals. I’ve pals, a shelter, and a few expendable revenue, which is good and rather more lucky than most individuals my age in Los Angeles.”
After the interview’s launch, Wilson pushed again on tales which appeared to mischaracterize her feedback about cash.
Posting a screenshot of a New York Post story which claimed Wilson known as herself “broke” within the article, she wrote, “Uhm… no? No I haven’t? I’ve by no means claimed to be broke? What the fuck are you speaking about?”
“I’m doing fairly okay for myself in my profession,” she wrote in a follow-up. “I’m not tremendous fucking wealthy however I can afford to stay in Los Angeles alone revenue so I’d say I’m doing effectively. Why tf would I lie about that lmfao.”
