Elon Musk's Estranged Daughter Vivian Holds Up Trans Flag During Debut Drag Show for Pride Month
Elon Musk's estranged daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson proudly waved a trans flag while making her drag debut in Los Angeles for Pride Month.
Wilson, 21, debuted her drag persona Vivllainous for a lip sync performance to singer JJ's hit 'Wasted Love' as part of the Pattie Gonia Presents SAVE HER! - An Environmental Drag Show event on Friday, June 14. The drag show was organized to raise money for a legal defense fund for migrants in the Los Angeles area.
Dressed in a black bodysuit and corset, Wilson waved the trans flag and whipped her hair around during the energetic performance. Fellow performer Noxxia Datura later shared that she'd done Wilson's makeup for her drag debut.
'Painted @vivllainous for her drag debut at the SAVE HER! show, served cvnty moth and shook my fans 😝 thank you to @pattiegonia and the entire SAVE HER! team for having me!!! last night was sosososooo incredible,' Noxxia Datura confirmed via Instagram.
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Wilson posted several fan-recorded clips of her performance via her Instagram Stories as well, including one follower complimenting her 'lethal' hair flips.
The Twitch streamer and model has spoken often about her rift with her father. Wilson told Teen Vogue earlier this year that she had been financially independent from Musk since coming out as trans in 2020. (Musk shares Wilson with his ex-wife Justine Wilson.)
'I haven't made any money from being famous at all,' she insisted. '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.'
She legally changed her last name from Musk to Wilson in 2022 because she 'no longer live[d] with or wish[ed] to be related to [her] biological father in any way.' Musk addressed his rift with his daughter later that year by claiming she'd been influenced 'full-on communism and a general sentiment that if you're rich, you're evil.'
'[Our relationship] may change, but I have very good relationships with all [of my other children]. Can't win them all,' he wrote via X in October 2022.
Earlier this year, Wilson poked fun at her father for welcoming two children with two different women within five months of each other. (Conservative author Ashley St. Clair announced in February that she'd delivered Musk's 13th child in 2024 while Shivon Zillis confirmed the birth of son Seldon Lycurgus in February, as well.)
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'Wow, if I had a nickel for every time I found out I had half-siblings through Reddit, I'd have two nickels … which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice, right?' she joked on TikTok.
Musk is a father to 14 children with four different women. The mogul and ex-wife Justine share five living children from their eight-year marriage, as well as son Nevada, who died of sudden infant death syndrome when he was 10 weeks old. Musk and visual artist Grimes have three kids, while he shares four more with Neurolink executive Zillis. St. Clair announced in February she'd given birth to his 13th child, a son, five months earlier.
In March, Wilson admitted to Teen Vogue that she wasn't keeping track of all of the half-siblings her father was adding to their family.
'I will say I do not actually know how many siblings I have if you include half-siblings,' she confessed 'That's just a fun fact. It's really good for two truths and a lie. I found out about the Shivon Zilis thing [at] the same time everyone else did. I had no idea before that.'
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