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Vivian Jenna Wilson, Elon Musks’s estranged daughter, has once again spoken out against her father and his rampant transphobia. This time, she has aimed her father’s biographer, Walter Isaacson. Isaacson released his biography on Musk last year.
In a series of posts on Threads, Wilson wrote, “To Walter Isaacson, you threw me to the wolves in what was one of the most humiliating experiences of my entire life.”
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“Elon was your darling Tony Stark apartheid-american hero with a semi-tragic backstory who was saving the world and you were too f**king cowardly to write anything other than a sad excuse for a puff-piece. To further this goal, you portrayed me in a light that is genuinely defamatory and I’m not going to mince my words.” Wilson continued.
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In the 2023 biography, titled Elon Musk, Isaacson paints Musks’s transformation from a Democrat to a right-wing hero. He points to Wilson’s transition, which happened when she was a teenager, and deadnames her throughout the book.
“I was treated as a VILLAIN BACKSTORY-ORIGIN to excuse or explain away his behavior. As if my whole existence was nothing but an inconvenience to HIM,” Wilson’s post reads. “My identity was trivialized, my reasons for seperation were misconstrued, and I was treated as naïve; stupid, unfairly unforgiving and unreasonably moralistic.”
An excerpt of the biography about Wilson and Musk’s change in politics,published in The Los Angeles Times, says that Musks’s turn to the right “was partly triggered by the decision of his oldest child [Wilson’s deadname] then sixteen, to transition. ‘Hey, I’m transgender, and my name is now Jenna,’ she texted the wife of Elon’s brother. ‘Don’t tell my dad.’”
“When Musk found out, he was generally sanguine,” Isaacson wrote, “but then she became a fervent Marxist and rejected him. His disagreements with Jenna, he says, ‘became intense when she went beyond socialism to being a full communist and thinking that anyone rich is evil.’”
Wilson pushed back against this passage, saying that “I was deadnamed, and misgendered for no conceivable reason and made to seem like I was just too stupid or too ‘communist’ or too brainwashed or too what-f**king-ever to understand the 4d chess behind the reasons I was traumatized.”
She also asserts that Isaacson failed to reach out to her, saying that he neither reached out to her for an interview nor contacted her about the book. She wrote,”I know that you claim that you ‘reached out to me through family members’ but I found out about this thing’s existence literally a MONTH before it was released.”
The book also refers to Wilson as “Jenna,” which she said only her mother and high school friends call her.
In 2022, Wilson legally changed her name and her gender as she cut ties with her father, saying that she did not wan “to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form.” For his part, Musk has a history of posting transphobic statements, and blamed communism in schools for Wilson’s transition, and said she was killed by “the woke mind virus.”
This isn’t the first time Wilson has spoken out against her father. Earlier this month, Wilson gave her first interview to NBC News, saying that Musk was a cold and sometimes abusive father to her. She responded to a picture that a user posted of Musk with his children from several years ago including her, in a series of posts addressed to her father.
“It seems to me like you’re trying to rebuild your brand image as the ‘caring paternal father’ which I will not let go unchallenged,” she said on her Threads account. “Look, I don’t know if you genuinely believe this or if you live in your own delusional fantasy land and frankly, I don’t care. It seems to me like you’re trying to rebuild your brand image as the “caring paternal father” which I will not let go unchallenged. If I’m going to be honest, this is absolutely pathetic,” she said.
She added, “You are not a family man. You are a serial adulterer… [and you] won’t stop f**king lying about your own children.”
