Walter Isaacson’s recent biography of the Tesla and SpaceX boss revealed more about Justine, who Musk met when he was 19 at Queen’s University in Ontario, and married in the Caribbean

The two lived in a 6,000 sq ft house in Bel Air and had five kids together, Griffin, Jenna, Damian, Kai and Saxon – Justine, an author, also published her first novel Bloodangel in 2005

More has been revealed about Elon Musk’s first wife, Justine, née Wilson, after the recent publication of the Tesla and SpaceX CEO’s biography.

Justine Musk is a fantasy author from Canada. She’s also Elon Musk’s ex-wife and the mother of five of his children.

Most recently, besides posting about writing and literature on X (formerly Twitter), she took to the social media platform to voice her opinion about the US presidential elections – lambasting Donald Trump, in particular.

She wrote, “Electing a man for president of the United States even though he has an admitted history of 𝓈ℯ𝓍ually harassing women and has been found guilty of 𝓈ℯ𝓍ual assault and defamation in a court of law, seems the very definition of rape culture. Just saying.”

Little information is publicly available about her early life, with most coverage focusing on her relationship with Elon, now the world’s richest person who serves as CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. Justine lifted the lid on their turbulent relationship in an explosive Marie Claire column in 2010. Walter Isaacson’s recent biography of the tech mogul cast further light on the couple’s time together.

Justine Musk is a fantasy author from Canada.

Justine Musk was born in 1972 as Jennifer Justine Wilson and grew up in Peterborough, Ontario, around 13km (80 miles) northeast of Toronto. She studied at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, where she majored in English literature. It was here, when she was 18, that she met the then-19-year-old Elon.

For their first date, he invited her for ice cream, but when he came to pick her up she wasn’t there. He walked around campus carrying the gradually melting cone until he found her studying, she wrote in her Marie Claire column. “He’s not a man who takes no for an answer,” Justine wrote.

While Elon studied at Queen’s, she was “not the only woman he pursued”, she added. He ended up transferring to the University of Pennsylvania, but they stayed in touch. He would sometimes send her roses and go for dinner with her when he came back to visit his friends at Queen’s.

“It was the first time that a boy found my sense of ambition – instead of my long hair or narrow waist – attractive,” she wrote.

After studying, Justine spent a year teaching English in Japan, where she ultimately decided to ditch the name Jennifer “because it was far too common and the name of a lot of cheerleaders”, she told Isaacson. She returned to Canada, took a bartending job while working on a novel, and mulled over whether to return to Japan or go to graduate school, she wrote in her Marie Claire column.

But things changed when she rekindled her relationship with Elon, culminating in her moving into the flat in Palo Alto that he shared with his housemates and their dog. Justine spent most of her time writing in their bedroom. “Friends would not want to stay at my house because Justine was too grumpy,” Elon told Isaacson.

The early years of Elon and Justine Musk’s relationship – the couple met at university in Ontario.

Their relationship was turbulent. They often had big arguments in public, and Elon “never hesitated to let me know that I was wrong about something”, Justine told Isaacson. “And I would fight back. I realised that I could say anything to him, and it just did not faze him.”

As his wealth grew, Justine “made uneasy jokes” that he’d dump her for a supermodel, she wrote. But instead, Elon proposed to her one day on a street corner.

Some of Elon’s friends and family, including his mother Maye Musk, younger brother Kimbal Musk, and university friend Navaid Farooq, didn’t approve of the relationship, per Isaacson’s book. Some even tried to talk him out of the wedding.

But the couple still got married in Saint Martin, in the Caribbean, in January 2000. Elon and Justine got into an argument the day before the ceremony was due to take place over their unsigned prenup and Elon told his mother that the wedding was off – to her delight, Isaacson wrote.

But the wedding ultimately went ahead. During their first dance, Elon whispered to Justine that he was “the alpha in this relationship”, she wrote in her Marie Claire column.

Justine also said that Elon “wanted to get married and have kids early on”, according to Ashlee Vance, once of his biographers.

Their first child, Nevada, who was born in 2002, died from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). He stopped breathing in his sleep when he was 10 weeks old and his parents took him off life support after three days, Justine wrote in Marie Claire. “I held him in my arms when he died,” she recalled.