What was Elon Musk’s relationship with his first wife like? Justine Wilson – who criticised Donald Trump – is mum to 5 of the richest man in the world’s kids, but his family disapproved of the match
- Walter Isaacson’s recent biography of the Tesla and SpaceX boss revealed more about Justine, who Musk met when he was 19 at Queen’s University in Ontario, and married in the Caribbean
- The two lived in a 6,000 sq ft house in Bel Air and had five kids together, Griffin, Jenna, Damian, Kai and Saxon – Justine, an author, also published her first novel Bloodangel in 2005
Justine Musk is a fantasy author from Canada. She’s also Elon Musk’s ex-wife and the mother of five of his children.
Most recently, besides posting about writing and literature on X (formerly Twitter), she took to the social media platform to voice her opinion about the US presidential elections – lambasting Donald Trump, in particular.
She wrote, “Electing a man for president of the United States even though he has an admitted history of sexually harassing women and has been found guilty of sexual assault and defamation in a court of law, seems the very definition of rape culture. Just saying.”
Justine Musk was born in 1972 as Jennifer Justine Wilson and grew up in Peterborough, Ontario, around 13km (80 miles) northeast of Toronto. She studied at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, where she majored in English literature. It was here, when she was 18, that she met the then-19-year-old Elon.
For their first date, he invited her for ice cream, but when he came to pick her up she wasn’t there. He walked around campus carrying the gradually melting cone until he found her studying, she wrote in her Marie Claire column. “He’s not a man who takes no for an answer,” Justine wrote.
While Elon studied at Queen’s, she was “not the only woman he pursued”, she added. He ended up transferring to the University of Pennsylvania, but they stayed in touch. He would sometimes send her roses and go for dinner with her when he came back to visit his friends at Queen’s.
“It was the first time that a boy found my sense of ambition – instead of my long hair or narrow waist – attractive,” she wrote.