Errol Musk has hit back at his transgender granddaughter Vivian Wilson after she attacked him in a ruthless social media rant.
In a vicious post on Instagram Threads, Vivian, aged 20, labeled Errol as a ‘racist’ and ‘psychopath’, where she also accused him of being a ‘literal groomer’ and having ‘murdered people’. It’s important to note that Errol has not been convicted of either crime.
‘This is a sad thing,’ Errol, 78, said of Vivian in a Thursday email to MailOnline. ‘The language used tells one everything.’
Initially, Errol seemed unaware of Vivian’s public slamming to her over 140,000 followers when MailOnline first approached him earlier in the week.
‘Ate (sic) they referring to me Errol Musk or Elon my son?’ he asked Wednesday.
Following the confirmation by MailOnline that the post, though not mentioning him by name, was clearly directed at him due to the references to controversial incidents from his history, Errol expressed his disappointment in Vivian’s remarks.
Vivian’s Threads post has since been deleted, although screenshots of her remarks are circulating on other social media platforms.
The 20-year-old often takes to social media to air her grievances with the Musk family, specifically her father Elon, with whom she is estranged.
Errol Musk (pictured in May 2022) has hit back at his transgender granddaughter Vivian Wilson after she attacked him in a ruthless social media rant. He told MailOnline: ‘This is a sad thing. The language used tells one everything’
Vivian Wilson, 20, (pictured) branded Errol a ‘racist’ and ‘psychopath’ in a vicious post on Instagram Threads that also saw her accuse him of being a ‘literal groomer’ and ‘murdered people’. Errol has not been convicted of either crime
Vivian has been openly critical of her family online, especially her estranged father Elon Musk, (pictured on Wednesday at the White House) who claims he lost his son Xavier – now Vivian – to the ‘woke mind virus’
Vivian launched her attack on her grandfather on Monday after Errol went viral for calling Elon a bad father on a recent episode of the Wide Awake podcast.
The interview also saw Errol make heartless claims about death of Tesla founder’s first son Nevada, alleging the infant died because he spent ‘too much time’ in the care of nannies.
Errol on Friday seemingly tried to clear the air, telling the New York Times that his remarks were taken ‘out of context’. He claimed he and Elon were on ‘good terms’ and ‘always have been’.
But Vivian, in what appeared to be a response to the newspaper article, hit out at Errol, telling her followers that he is a ‘complete f***ing psychopath and 99% of what he says is utter bulls**t’.
She branded Errol, whom she does not refer to by name, a ‘racist’ and ‘literal groomer’, before slamming the Times for even sharing Errol’s story.
‘I’m going to keep this as vague as possible because I am aware I have a large platform and do not want to accidentally amplify the voice of a literal groomer,’ she wrote, before noting that the situation ‘needs to be addressed’.
‘If there is someone who has kids with his stepdaughter, has murdered people, and is a huge f***ing racist, (alongside many other things I can’t say publicly), maybe don’t give them a f***ing platform & maybe don’t repeat what they have said,’ she posted.
The post appeared to reference Errol’s infamous marriage to his former stepdaughter Jana Bezuidenhout, in the 1990s. The pair had two children together.
The claim that he had ‘murdered people’ also appeared to reference to the manslaughter charges Errol faced over a shootout with three alleged home intruders at his rental property in Johannesburg in 1998.
Errol, who was acquitted of the charges, told Rolling Stone in 2017 that ‘he has never intentionally threatened or hurt anyone’.
Vivian’s Threads post has since been deleted, although screenshots of her remarks are circulating on other social media platforms
Vivian’s post made mention of Errol’s infamous marriage to his former stepdaughter Jana Bezuidenhout, (pictured) in the 1990s. The pair had two children together
Errol’s ex-wife Heide (center) is pictured holding baby Elliot Rush, whom he shares with Jana (left). Errol and Heide’s other daughter Asha is pictured on the right
Vivian, after seemingly trying to raise doubts about Errol’s credibility, urged the media not to offer him a platform.
‘I do not care what he said, I do not care what he thinks, he is a complete f***ing psychopath and 99% of what he says is utter bulls**t. So don’t give him the time of day. That’s it. This is common sense,’ she continued.
‘I am never addressing this again because I am never giving this man any more attention. He currently does not have much and it should stay that way.’
In her concluding post, the 20-year-old added: ‘If you don’t know who I’m talking about – you don’t need to.’
Vivian has been openly critical of her family online, especially her estranged father Elon, who claims he lost his son to the ‘woke mind virus’.
In a July 2024 interview with NBC News, she described Musk’s treatment of her as a child as ‘cruel’ due to her queerness and femininity.
Elon has since publicly slammed Vivian calling her a ‘communist’ who thinks ‘anyone rich is evil.’
As a transgender woman, Vivian has faced repeated dismissals and misgendering from Elon, who has previously described her as ‘not a girl’ and figuratively ‘dead.’
The Tesla billionaire has also claimed that he was ‘tricked’ into authorizing gender-affirming care ‘for Xavier when he was just 16’, he said, using her former name.
‘This was really before I had any understanding of what was going on, and we had COVID going on, so there was a lot of confusion. And I was told Xavier might commit suicide.’
Elon Musk and his first wife Justine Wilson sadly lost their first child, a son named Nevada Alexander, when he died of sudden infant death syndrome in 2002
Elon Musk is seen with Talulah Riley and his twin sons Griffin, left, 6, and Xavier, right, in 2010
Musk has fathered 12 children with three women. He shares five with his ex-wife Justine Musk, three with Canadian singer Grimes and three with Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis. MAGA influencer Ashley St Clair recently claimed that she secretly gave birth to Musk’s 13th child
When asked about gender dysphoria, Elon added: ‘It’s incredibly evil and I agree with you that the people that are promoting this should go to prison.
‘I was tricked into doing this. It wasn’t explained to me that puberty blockers are actually just sterilization drugs.
‘I lost my son, essentially. They call it ‘deadnaming’ for a reason.
‘The reason they call it ‘deadnaming’ is because your son is dead, so my son, Xavier, is dead, killed by the woke mind virus.’
Deadnaming is what transgender people typically refer to others calling them by the name they went by before they began to transition.
Elon said that he ‘vowed to destroy the woke mind virus after that.’ He also posted a Tweet in which he claimed that Vivian was born ‘gay and slightly autistic.’
Elon has fathered 12 children with three women. He shares five with his ex-wife Justine Musk, three with Canadian singer Grimes and three with Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis.
MAGA influencer Ashley St Clair recently claimed that she secretly gave birth to Elon’s 13th child. Elon has not publicly addressed this claim. He has spoken jokingly of his desire to repopulate the world by fathering as many children as he can.
Vivian went viral earlier this month after she took to TikTook to reveal that she found out about her latest alleged half-sibling not through family, but via Reddit.
‘Wow, if I had a nickel for every time I found out I had a half-sibling through Reddit, I’d have two nickels… which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice, right?’ she said.
The post quickly went viral with more than 400,000 views and drawing thousands of comments from users who related to her experience.
She followed up with a joke suggesting she is in something of a unique position: ‘I don’t know how many siblings I have’ goes really hard on 2 truths and a lie though I will admit.’
One commenter wrote, ‘I found out I had a brother through Facebook. It gets better girl. My dad died, I hope you get the same gift.’
Another shared, ‘I found out through Facebook that I had a half-sister WITH MY SAME NAME. Thanks, bio dad.’
Earlier this month, MAGA influencer Ashley St Clair recently claimed that she secretly gave birth to Elon’s 13th child. Elon has not publicly addressed this claim
Elon Musk’s estranged transgender daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson, has revealed that she found out about her latest alleged half-sibling not through family, but via Reddit
The wave of online criticism comes just days after the tech titan’s own father Errol Musk delivered a brutal opinion of his son’s parenting skills on the Wide Awake podcast
Elon, earlier this month, also faced criticism from Errol who cruelly claimed the SpaceX CEO ‘hasn’t been a good dad’ and pointed out how the billionaire’s first son Nevada died while in the care of a nanny.
‘The first child was too much with nannies and died in the care of a nanny,’ Errol said of Nevada on South African podcast Wide Awake two weeks ago.
Nevada, who died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) at just 10 weeks old in 2002, was Musk’s first child with his wife Justine.
Errol said: ‘If Elon hears this he’s gonna shoot me or something, but anyway, that’s what I think.
‘They were too rich, [had] too many nannies… then he had five children with the same woman – five sons all brought up, each one had its own nanny. You following me?
‘When they got divorced, the nannies were six on this side and six on that side. So it was a really weird situation.’
Errol also alleged that Musk ‘never spent time with his kids’.
His comments went viral, prompting Errol to issue clarifying remarks in the Times on Friday. ‘The press takes things out of context,’ he said, before claiming that he and Elon had a ‘good’ relationship.
Elon and Justine were married from 2000 to 2008. After Nevada’s death, the couple went on to have twin sons, Xavier and Griffin. Xavier has since transitioned to become Vivian and now identifies as female.
In 2006, they welcomed triplets Kai, Saxon and Damian.
He has since had three children – X Æ A-12, Exa Dark Sideræl, Techno Mechanicus – with former partner Grimes, and another three children – Strider, Azure and a third baby whose name is not known- with Shivon Zillis.
Both he and Justine have spoken of the acute grief they felt when Nevada died.
Elon Musk with his adorable son X in the Oval Office on February 11, 2025
Musk and Shivon Zilis brought their three-year-old twins Strider and Azure along with X to a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi this week
‘My firstborn child died in my arms. I felt his last heartbeat. I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame,’ he said in a tweet aimed at Sandy Hook hoax conspiracy theorists.
Justine recalled the tragedy in an essay for Marie Claire.
‘By the time eBay bought PayPal in 2002, we had moved to Los Angeles and had our first child, a boy named Nevada Alexander. The sale of PayPal vaulted Elon’s net worth to well over $100 million.
‘The same week, Nevada went down for a nap, placed on his back as always, and stopped breathing. He was 10 weeks old, the age when male infants are most susceptible to SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome).
‘By the time the paramedics resuscitated him, he had been deprived of oxygen for so long that he was brain-dead.
‘He spent three days on life support in a hospital in Orange County before we made the decision to take him off it.
‘I held him in my arms when he died.’
