Elon Musk has a nickname for the mothers of his 14 children, according to his ex-wife Justine Wilson.
During her interview in the new documentary “Musk,” which was detailed by People magazine on Thursday, Wilson reportedly told director Alex Gibney that the world’s first trillionaire calls the women “breeders” and said that, to him, “the breeders are interchangeable.”
Wilson was married to Musk from 2000 to 2008. She has six children with him, including son Nevada, who died at 10 weeks. The Tesla CEO also shares three children with singer Grimes; four children with Shivon Zilis, a former executive at his biotech company Neuralink; and a son with former right-wing influencer Ashley St. Clair.
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In her own interview for the film, St. Clair claimed Musk once told her he wanted to have a “legion of children before the civil war,” a desire which seems in line with the pro-natalist views he’s been publicly espousing for years.
Not long after the four-hour documentary drew a standing ovation at its Venice Film Festival premiere on Tuesday, Musk began raging about the “psy op” on X.
“Gibney just assembled a hit list of people who either have an axe to grind or don’t even know me (but still have an axe to grind),” Musk wrote on Tuesday. “He has ZERO integrity. Horrible human.”
Musk also threatened to sue over parts of the film which suggested he had interfered with the results of the 2024 presidential election through his network of Starlink satellites. In a letter from attorney Alex Spiro to Gibney’s production company, which was first reported by the New York Post, Spiro claimed that his client “repeatedly offered” to debunk the vote-rigging allegations but that Gibney “declined to hear.”
A spokesperson for Gibney’s company defended the director’s work while taking a swipe at Musk.
“The right to engage in open debate and fact-based examinations of powerful public figures is protected by the First Amendment — something that should be recognized and defended by all Americans, including the associates of Elon Musk, who has proclaimed himself to be a ‘free speech absolutist,’” the spokesperson said in a statement.
“Musk” is slated for theatrical release on Oct. 16.