Elon Musk is poised to become the world's first trillionaire today
15:36, 12 Jun 2026 Updated 19:02, 12 Jun 2026
Poised to become the world's first trillionaire as SpaceX goes public, controversial businessman Elon Musk is back in the spotlight. While best known for his sweeping corporate empires, the billionaire has increasingly used his massive platform to weigh in on highly contentious topics - ranging from geopolitical riots to human reproduction.
He sparked intense debate this week after taking to X to encourage protests in Belfast following a wave of violent riots. This is far from the first time the world's richest man has waded into UK politics, and he shows no signs of holding back his divisive opinions.
Musk has previously made his stance on procreation very clear . Arguing that falling birth rates pose a huge threat to the human race, he has declared that it as "not just a crisis, but the crisis". Embracing the 'pronatalism' movement, he's urged others to have large families, and claimed that he is doing his absolute best to lead by example.
To accommodate his massive family, Musk reportedly spent £27 million in 2024 on a sprawling 14,000-square-foot compound in Texas designed to help him coordinate schedules with his children.
However, his unconventional family dynamic has drawn sharp public criticism from the mothers of his children. Here is a closer look inside his complex and ever-expanding family tree...
Six children
Musk shares six children with his first wife, author Justine Wilson. The pair were married from 2000 and 2008. During that time, their first child Nevada Alexander was born in 2002. Tragically, he died from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) when he was only 10 weeks old.
Writing in an essay in Marie Claire in 2010, Justine opened up about her grief. She said: "I buried my feelings... coping with Nevada's death by making my first visit to an IVF clinic less than two months later. Elon and I planned to get pregnant again as swiftly as possible. Within the next five years, I gave birth to twins, then triplets."
Vivian and Griffin
Two years later, the pair welcomed twins Xavier and Griffin via IVF. But in 2022, Xavier, then 18, came out as transgender and confirmed they'd changed their name to Vivian Jenna Wilson.
Previously Musk has claimed that his child had been "killed by the woke mind virus". Vivian responded by saying her father has no idea what she was like as a child as he "quite simply wasn’t there, and in the little time that he was, I was relentlessly harassed for my femininity and queerness."
More recently, she has spoken about her future in the US. "I don't see my future in the United States. Even if [Trump is] only in office for four years, even if the anti-trans regulations magically don't happen, the people who willingly voted this in are not going anywhere anytime soon," she wrote on Threads.
Kai, Saxon and Damian
In 2006, the pair's triplets, Kai, Saxon and Damian, were born. In a 2017 TedTalk , Justine revealed that they were conceived via IVF.
X AE A-Xii
In May 2020, Musk and his then-girlfriend Grimes shared the happy news that they'd become parents to a baby boy. Sharing the news on X, the Space X CEO said: “Mom & baby all good”.
Following the announcement, Musk shared the name of their son – revealing he was called X Æ A-Xii Musk. Both Elon and Grimes have discussed the pronunciation of their son's name, with Grimes explaining on Instagram that it was pronounced: "just X, like the letter X, then A.I. Like how you said the letter A then I." However, Musk appeared on Joe Rogan's podcast in which he said that the ‘Æ’ in his son’s name is pronounced "ash".
Previously, X Æ A-Xii, who Musk commonly refers to as X, stole the show when he appeared at a joint press conference from the Oval Office alongside his father and President Donald Trump . During the televised address, the toddler seemed to utter a remark while his father addressed journalists, prompting Trump to reach out in an attempt to hush him.
After a social media user told Grimes that X had been "very polite" while accompanying his father , she replied on X: "He should not be in public like this. I did not see this, thank u for alerting me. But I'm glad he was polite. Sigh."
Strider and Azure
Musk is also a father to twins Strider and Azure, whom he shares with Shivon Zilis, a senior executive at his AI company Neuralink . The twins were born in November 2021.
Exa Dark Sideræl
In December 2021, Musk and former partner Grimes welcomed daughter Exa Dark Sideræl, via surrogate. In a 2022 interview with Vanity Fair , the musician shared the news and explained how they’d nicknamed their daughter Y.
Speaking of the name choice, Grimes said that 'Exa' refers to a term in supercomputing, while Dark represents "the unknown". She said: "People fear it but truly it's the absence of photons. Dark matter is the beautiful mystery of our universe." Meanwhile, she added that 'Sideræl' was…
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