Justine Musk, the first wife of Elon Musk and the mother of six of her children, asked Tesla and SpaceX when they divorced. Musk made sure not to obtain a sharing.
LNGO before He became a familiar name – and before starting to generate several children with several single women – Elon Musk was a married man.
Her first marriage, with the original novelist of Canada, Justine Wilson Musk, lasted eight years from 2000 to 2008. Meanwhile, Justine gave her six children, the first of whom died tragically as a child, followed by twins and triplets.
But while Elon is now the richest person in the world, Justine is only a millionaire – Worth some $ 15 million, Forbes Estimates, or about 1/24,000 of the current fortune of $ 364 billion in Elon.
In many ways, her manipulation of Justine gave Elon a model to treat all the mothers (at least four so far) of her very desired “legion” of children – now with 14 known children. Musk offered Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of her children, $ 15 million and $ 100,000 per month in exchange for his silence on the child, which they named Romulus – and quickly withdrew the offer after St. Clair was made public about Musk being the father, the father, the father, the father, the father, the father, the father, the father, the father, the father, the father, the father, the father, the father, the father, the father, Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week.
While Elon recently brought X to offer women to have his children, according to the newspaper, he met his first old -fashioned wife: at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, while the two were students until Musk was transferred to the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School to finish his diploma. They resumed dating in the mid -1990s, when Justine moved in Silicon Valley and lived with Elon in an apartment they shared with roommates, when he was busy building the Zip2 software company, which he founded in 1995 with his brother Kimbal and a friend, Greg Kouri.
In 1999, Elon and its co -founders sold Zip2 to Compaq for $ 300 million, Elon pocketing around $ 20 million. He bought a 1,800 square feet condo in Palo Alto and deposited $ 1 million on a McLaren F1 sports car, which CNN filmed at the Maison d’Elon in 1999 with Justine by his side. “It’s a million dollars for a car. It’s decadent,” Justine told CNN at the time. “My fear is that we are becoming spoiled frogs, that we lose a feeling of appreciation and perspective.” (Musk totaled the car.)
Elon and Justine were married the following year and, in 2002, had moved to Los Angeles, where he founded SpaceX. Two years later, he invested in Tesla and joined the board of directors. In just four years between 2002 and 2006, Justine gave birth to six boys. She also continued her passion for creative writing, publishing three fictional books between 2005 and 2008. Elon asked for a divorce at the end of spring 2008, just a few months before becoming CEO of Tesla (and four years before her debut in 2012 on Forbes“List of billionaires around the world, with a net value of $ 2 billion) – and six weeks before becoming engaged to his next wife.
During the divorce procedure, Justine wrote, she asked Elon their house, their child alimony, 10% of her Tesla shares, 5% of her SpaceX shares, $ 6 million and a Tesla Roadster glacier. Had she obtained all of this, she was worth $ 17.3 billion today, Forbes Figures, enough to make him the richest person on the planet. It is a striking contrast with the way in which two other super-sans divorces have dropped: Jeff Bezos gave his ex Mackenzie Scott a quarter of his 16% participation in the Amazon electronic commerce giant in their 2019 divorce, worth $ 36 billion at the time; Bill Gates’ divorce regulations in 2021 with Melinda French Gates was not made public, but Forbes Considers that she obtained $ 25 billion in her fortune estimated at $ 124 billion.
Instead, according to Elon, he offered Justine a regulation of $ 80 million before taxes, which she refused, preferring Tesla shares and a SpaceX participation, a smart decision since the two were in their relative childhood. She did not get herself and found herself with much less than her original offer.
The main reason: she signed a post -nuptial agreement in March 2000. In the midst of the divorce procedure in 2010, she wrote in Marie Claire about the signing: “I trusted my husband – Why had I married it? It was not until later that it was clear for her what was in the agreement. “I had indeed signed all my rights as a married person, including any pretension to community goods, with the exception of our house, which was to be devolved to my name once we had a child.”
Justine brought Elon to court in 2008, contesting the validity of the post-nup agreement because Elon had not disclosed the pending merger between her payment company X.com (not to be confused with her social media platform X) and another payment company, Finity. After this merger, the company renamed Paypal and sold two years later in Ebay for $ 1.5 billion in shares; Musk’s estimated socket was at least $ 100 million. The trial dragged for two years, cost Elon at least $ 4 million in legal invoices and ended with the judge in favor of Elon.
After all this, according to Elon, Justine obtained $ 20 million after taxes – whose value of their house in Bel Air, and half to be paid in monthly payments of $ 20,000 for clothing, shoes and discretionary items, as well as payments to cover “all its household expenses and everything related to children,” Elon wrote. (No word on the roadster.)
But she did not get $ 10 million from the house. The property files show that Justine sold the mansion of 6,500 square feet in April 2011 for $ 6.5 million. A month later, she bought a 4,900 square feet house in Los Angeles for $ 4.3 million. This house is now worth more than $ 8 million. Meanwhile, the treasury of almost $ 2 million it has obtained from the sale of Bel Air House could be worth more than $ 6.5 million today if it had invested most of the stock market. Neither Justine nor an Elon spokesman responded to Forbes“Comments.
Shortly after asking for Justine’s divorce, Musk met British actress Talulah Riley. It didn’t take long for them to fall into each other. “Everything happened very quickly. We were engaged within two weeks of knowledge,” said Riley in 2018 60 minutes History on musk. “I was 22 years old. He was very charming and certainly the most interesting and eccentric person. ” Musk was married in Riley twice: from 2010 to 2012, then from 2013 to 2016. The pair had no children, but she would have always obtained a sum similar to Justine of the two combined divorces. In 2022, Riley called Musk “the perfect ex-husband” and “a great friend”.
He was no longer married, but was in a long -term relationship with singer Grimes, with whom he has three children, and spent time with the director of Neuralink Shivon Zilis, with whom he has four children – in part of his plan to repopulate the planet. According to the NewspaperZilis lives in a complex closed in Texas where Musk wanted all his offspring and their mothers to reside.
Justine Musk has kept a relatively low profile from her divorce. She published a news in 2016 and had a blog for a while. He is sure to say that she is not on board with her ex when it comes to Donald Trump. “Electing a man for the President of the United States even if he has an admitted history of women sexually harassing and has been found guilty of sexual assault and defamation in a court, seems the very definition of rape culture. The simple fact of saying, ”she tweeted in January 2024. Justine has not tweeted for over a year.
Presumably, Justine is not delighted by the treatment by Elon by Vivian Jenna Wilson, one of the twins, who is now a transgender woman, and which Elon has publicly ridiculed with the Trans community as a whole. “She supports my transition a lot,” said Vivian about her mother in an interview with Mars with Teenage vogue. “When I went out to her, she pretended to be slightly surprised for 30 seconds and was like” Yeah, darling. ” All right. “” His father? “He was not as favorable as my mother.”
Wilson, 20, told the magazine that she had been financially independent of her father since she came out as trans in 2020. As for her legion of brothers and sisters, Vivian joked: “I would say that I do not really know how many brothers and sisters I have, if you include half-brothers. that.”
There is a good chance that more musc children are there, or much more on the way.
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