Elon Musk's transgender daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson dances with Trans Pride flag at drag show raising cash for immigrants' legal bills
The 21-year-old, who is famously at odds with her billionaire Tesla co-founder father Musk, performed at the Save Her drag show at the Bellwether in Los Angele s yesterday night.
The production, led by critically acclaimed drag artist Pattie Gonia, was announced as a benefit show with a 100 percent of the money going towards towards legal defence funds for immigrants.
It comes as riots have gripped the Californian City after peaceful demonstrations against federal immigration sweeps by Trump's administration descended into violence in recent weeks.
The US President deployed 2,000 to the West Coast to enforce 'very strong law and order' amid outrage over increased Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in predominantly Latino areas after vowing to crack down on immigration.
Showing her solidarity to demonstrators, Vivian took the stage in a black catsuit coupled with a metal structured corset as she proudly draped a trans flag above her head.
Cutting shapes with her lengthy pins, her blonde tresses draped down to her hips as she posed with her striking and unique dark eyeshadow and lipstick.
At one point of the show, the social media personality flaunted her flexibility, kicking her black high-heeled boot behind her head as she stretched along the stage's floor.
Vivian and Musk's, strained relationship has been long recorded, having previously clashed over political disagreements, with the billionaire claiming the youngster believed 'anyone rich is evil'.
Last year, the entrepeneur, who reportedly has 12 children, also previously claimed he was 'tricked' by the 'woke mind virus' into allowing Vivian become a transgender woman.
'It's incredibly evil and I agree with you that the people that are promoting this should go to prison,' Musk responded, when asked about gender dysphoria.
The Trevor Project found that 46 percent of transgender and nonbinary young people seriously considered suicide in the US in 2023.
Just 13 percent of transgender and nonbinary young people reported taking gender-affirming hormones in 2023 and just two percent took puberty blockers.
Recalling the moment she realised she was transgender in a recent interview with Teen Vogue, Vivian revealed she was 'constantly having mental breakdowns' while in school.
'I just wanted to rot, pretty much. It was like, I cannot do this anymore. If I stay in the closet anymore, this is going to take me down a very destructive path', she said.
Two days later, in 2020, she went public on her Instagram prior to telling her mom, Justine Wilson, a move which she now says she regrets.
Wilson said that while her mom had been supportive, she had not spoken with Musk in months prior to coming out, and that he was not supportive in her decision.
Describing her use of social media, she proclaimed herself 'the Queen of Threads', the arch rival of her father's company X, which is owned by Mark Zuckerberg's Meta.
The 21-year-old also shared she has been financially independent from her billionaire father since coming out as trans and now lives abroad, studying languages.
Despite her independence, she did add that she has in the past received Venmo money requests for thousands of dollars due to her father's status as the world's richest man.
She said: 'I haven't made any money from being famous at all. I have made zero dollars and zero cents. I do live in a lot of people's heads rent-free, though.
'I feel like Twitch streaming would be so much fun…. I don't feel like the world needs another Twitch streamer, but [I'd] love to do it.'
The interview also shone a light on her love of drag queens, something which she says she would love to do.
'It's on my bucket list to win a drag pageant', Wilson added before saying she would likely choose to appear as a 'drag king' saying: 'I would eat that up'.
During the interview in March of this year, she also candidly revealed that she didn't know how many siblings in total she has.
'I found out about Grimes having a second child because a drag queen posted about it on Reddit.'
She added that at the time her and Grimes had not been in communication, but that appears to have changed after Grimes came to her support last year.
Wilson also told the outlet that she had found out about Musk's latest alleged child with MAGA influencer Ashley St. Clair after also seeing a Reddit post.
The interview delved into what remains of the relationship between Wilson and Musk, which she bluntly said she 'didn't give a f*** about'.
Discussing his recent behaviour, including what some have interpreted as him making a Nazi salute while addressing a crowd of MAGA fanatics, she explained how she denounce her father's behaviour dubbing it 'f**king cringe'.
She added: 'I don't give a f**k about him. I really don't. It's annoying that people associate me with him. I just don't have any room to care anymore.'
When asked if she ever felt scared of her father, she called him a 'pathetic man-child'.
More recently, the 21-year-old subtly reacted to Musk's explosive fallout with Donald Trump over his 'Big Beautiful Bill', which includes extending tax cuts as well as more requirements to be eligible for federal benefits.
It also would see a hike to the national debt ceiling.
Vivan addressed the feud on her Instagram Stories with a video of herself laughing captioned, 'I love being proven right.'
'I do not want to comment,' then burst into a fit of laughter,' she said.
She followed up with post from Threads paired with the song 'Job Application' by Chase Icon and the caption, 'Such beauty in life.'
When Trump was asked about Musk's criticism when he was supposed to be hosting the new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office afterthe fallout, he said: 'Elon and I had a great relationship. I don't know if we will any more, I was surprised,' the president told reporters.
On Wednesday, Musk issued a apologised to Trump on his platform X, expressing his regret adding that his statements 'went too far'.
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