Considered one of Elon Musk’s youngsters has filed a request in Los Angeles County Superior Court docket to vary their final identify from Musk, citing a need to chop ties with their well-known father.
Vivian Jenna Wilson filed the petition to legally change names on April 18, a day after turning 18, court docket paperwork present.
Wilson cited gender id as a purpose for the identify change and “the truth that I now not stay with or want to be associated to my organic father in any method, form or type.”
The teenager is one in every of 5 youngsters Musk shares with author Justine Wilson. The couple filed for divorce in 2008.
Along with his youngsters with Wilson, Musk has two youngsters with musician Grimes.
The Tesla Inc. chief govt has beforehand come below fireplace for criticizing using most well-liked pronouns for transgender and nonbinary folks, together with two 2020 tweets that learn: “I absolutely support trans, but all these pronouns are an esthetic nightmare” and “Pronouns suck.”
At present the world’s richest man, Musk has made latest headlines together with his ongoing try to buy Twitter for $44 billion and for utilizing his SpaceX satellite tv for pc dishes to offer web entry in war-torn Ukraine.
