Elon Musk’s Estranged Daughter Calls Him a Liar, 'Serial Adulterer' in Scathing Posts on X Rival Threads

“You single-handedly disillusioned me with how gullible we are as a species,” Vivian Jenna Wilson wrote in one of several new social media posts, continuing her public repudiation of her dad

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who was publicly criticized by his estranged daughter in August 2024. Photo:

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Elon Musk's daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson is again calling out her father in a series of scathing posts on social media amid their ongoing and increasingly public estrangement.

In the posts, Wilson described her dad as “a serial adulterer” and a frequent liar in the string of posts on Threads — the platform competing with X, which her father purchased in October 2022 when it was known as Twitter.

The 20-year-old said she would not let him go unchallenged in what she cast as an attempt to rebuild his image as a “caring paternal father,” describing it as an “absolutely pathetic” effort.

“You single-handedly disillusioned me with how gullible we are as a species,” she wrote in one of her posts, “because somehow people keep believing you for reasons that continue to evade me.”

Wilson began her posts with a screenshot of an interaction from X, which began with a user posting an old image of the Tesla CEO with some of his children during an appearance on CBS News.

The user applauded Musk for seemingly making time for his family, to which Musk replied, “All 5 boys look super happy."

PEOPLE has reached out to Musk for comment.

The billionaire businessman has previously made public comments about Wilson, sparking her continuing criticism.

During an interview with psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson in July, Musk claimed he was "tricked" into allowing Wilson, who is transgender, to undergo transgender-related medical treatment when she was 16.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk leaves the Phillip Burton Federal Building on January 24, 2023 in San Francisco, California.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk leaves the Phillip Burton Federal Building on January 24, 2023 in San Francisco, California.

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Wilson, who legally filed to change her name and gender in 2022 at age 18, denied Musk's claim to NBC News at the time and called it a "lie."

Directly addressing her father on Thread a few weeks later, Wilson accused Musk of lying about her in a way she believed was not only “stupid” but also “desperate.” 

Among those lies, she wrote, were that she holds “neomarxist” or “communist” beliefs, “was brainwashed at high school to be trans” and believes “being rich is evil.”

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“If you’re going to lie about me, why would you choose a method so obnoxious in its stupidity,” Wilson pondered in her second post. “The fact anyone believed this for even five seconds is beyond me.”

She also criticized Musk for going out of his way to misgender her, which she said “is both completely transparent and honestly just sad.”

“I understand your new angle is this ‘western values/christian family man’ thing, but it’s such a weird choice,” Wilson wrote in a third post. 

Wilson went on to claim her father is “not a christian” despite what he may attempt to portray and that he has “never stepped foot in a church” as far as she is aware.

She also alleged her father, who is “from Apartheid South Africa,” has been sued for discrimination on multiple occasions, recalling a time when he supposedly called Arabic the “language of the enemy” when she was just 6 years old.

In her final post, Wilson accused Musk of not truly caring about climate change and of “lying about multi-planetary civilization as both an excuse, and because you want to seem like the CEO from Ready Player One.”

“I would mention the birth rate stuff, but I am not touching that weird 14-words breeder s--- with a ten foot pole,” she added.

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