Justine Musk

Jennifer Justine Musk (née Wilson; born September 2, 1972) is a Canadian author. She is the first ex-wife of Elon Musk and the mother of Vivian Wilson. Born Jennifer J. Wilson in Peterborough, Ontario, to parents Terry and Shirley Wilson, she was the oldest of two. Her younger sister, Erin, eventually left Peterborough to live in Los Angeles with Justine, who spent her senior year of high school in Wagga Wagga, Australia, as an exchange student. She went on to attend Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and obtained a degree in English literature. There, she met Elon Musk. After university, Musk moved to Japan, teaching English as a second language (ESL). She subsequently settled in California. Following a protracted courtship starting in or about 1992, Justine wed Elon in January 2000. Their first child was born in 2002 and died of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) at the age of 10 weeks. Through in vitro fertilization, she gave birth to twins in 2004 and triplet boys in 2006. On September 13, 2008, she announced that she and Elon were getting a divorce, but they shared custody of their children. Musk is the author of the contemporary fantasy novel BloodAngel, published in 2005 by the Roc Books imprint of Penguin Books. Her second book, Uninvited, was released in 2007 and is an unrelated work intended for young-adult readers. A sequel to BloodAngel, Lord of Bones, was released in 2008. Musk was one of the first people to use a site like Pinterest to plan out a novel. In a 2007 interview, she identified Margaret Atwood, Joyce Carol Oates, Paul Theroux, George R. R. Martin, Guy Gavriel Kay, and Neil Gaiman as authors to whom she could relate her writings. She also described her books as cross-genre fiction. Musk later wrote an article for Marie Claire detailing ways she thought the marriage was unhealthy, such as Elon's dismissal of her career ambitions and his description of himself as the 'alpha' in the relationship. In 2010, she described herself as a 'model former wife', and said she was on good terms with Elon's then-wife, Talulah Riley. Musk has said that she kept the surname for their children's sake. In 2022, one of their twins formally changed her name to Vivian Jenna to reflect her gender identity and took Wilson for her surname as she no longer wished to be associated with her father.