—as well as mother of four of the 14 children he is known to have fathered—took to his social media platform,
, to announce an abrupt shift in their relationship.
“It’s hard to go from in love to let go in a week with no warning, but that’s just how it is sometimes,” Zilis
, sharing a screenshot of the X account @BigTechAlert that showed Musk had unfollowed her there. Zilis’ post continued: “I feel happy that I got to show Elon how it feels to be deeply understood, nurtured, and peacefully loved with stability and gentleness,” followed by warm praise and best wishes for Musk. “I do hope and pray he and I can be great friends and coparents,” Zilis concluded, leaving some ambiguity as to what exactly changed between them and whether she remains a director of operations and special projects at Neuralink, though it does not appear as if she has left the position.
While this was a strange revelation of a private matter, it seemed hardly out of the ordinary for Musk’s dizzyingly complicated family life. At this point, all four of the women confirmed to have had children with him—Zilis, ex-wife
—have used X to share details of their time with him or push back against his own claims.
Both Wilson and St. Clair participated in filmmaker Alex Gibney’s sprawling new documentary
, in theaters nationwide on October 16 and screening at the
in Miami next month. St. Clair, a former conservative influencer, alleges that she rejected a nondisclosure agreement worth $40 million that would have prevented her from talking about her tumultuous association with Musk. Among an ensemble of tech entrepreneurs, journalists, and former Musk employees, the pair stand out as arguably the most important critical voices in the film, shedding light on Musk’s rise in Silicon Valley as well as his turn toward MAGA extremism during the 2024 election.
sounds like daunting viewing, though once it’s over, you’ll find yourself wondering if it could’ve been a 10-part miniseries. That’s how much ground there is to cover, from the unrealistic ambitions of
and the corporate colonization of Texas to the fatal collisions involving
annihilation of the US Agency for International Development
by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (
) at the beginning of Trump’s second term. (WIRED’s reporting is cited in the documentary, which features interviews with global editorial director Katie Drummond and contributing editor Zoë Schiffer.)
Alongside a fast-moving, comprehensive account of Musk’s career as an all-powerful and untouchable oligarch, his former romantic partners provide crucial context about exactly
he is, piecing together a devastating portrait of the type of man to “let go” of a significant other by unfollowing her on social media.
Wilson reflects movingly on the loss of their firstborn to a SIDS-related condition, which is juxtaposed with a Musk post on X in which he wrote that he held their infant son as he died—a comment to which his ex-wife
, “not that it matters to anyone except me, because it is one of the most sacred and defining moments of my life, but I was the one who was holding him.”
In the film, she also addresses the pain of Musk repeatedly insisting that their transgender daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson, was “
,” calling this an unconscionable comment given the actual loss of a child they experienced together. Musk goes on to tell Gibney that right after passing along the message that he would “always love” Wilson, he cut off their daughter’s health insurance and that he has “never tried to repair things” with her.
“He was constantly remarking on the ways he found me lacking,” Wilson says in recounting their marriage. She claims that when she reminded her husband that she was his spouse and not an employee, he told her, “If you were my employee, I would fire you.” Summing up their overall dynamic, she says: “I learned the term gaslighting through my relationship with Elon.”
St. Clair, defiantly outspoken against Musk since revealing in early 2025 that he had fathered a child with her, alleges that her whirlwind affair with the billionaire was a temporary illusion of compatibility that led to a messy and ongoing custody battle. (
also covers a custody dispute with Grimes that was eventually settled for undisclosed terms.) St. Clair says in the film that Musk lost interest in her once she was pregnant and claims that he sought to father children with other women. According to
, this included cryptocurrency influencer Tiffany Fong, whom he messaged with an offer to give her a child. (Musk did not immediately return a request for comment on this matter. Fong declined to comment publicly on the Journal’s story except to say that she had requested
“It’s like a Gatling gun of sperm in his DMs,” St. Clair quips. In the film’s interviews, both she and Wilson voice discomfort over their ex’s views on birth rates and ambition to father a “legion” of offspring, with Wilson claiming he regards the mothers of his