Elon Musk’s Exes Are the Most Damning Part of a Massive New Documentary
Elon Musk’s Exes Are the Most Damning Part of a Massive New Documentary
埃隆·马斯克的前任们是这部大型新纪录片中最具批判性的部分
On Friday morning, Shivon Zilis, a top executive and lieutenant of Elon Musk at his brain chip implant company Neuralink—as well as mother of four of the 14 children he is known to have fathered—took to his social media platform, X, to announce an abrupt shift in their relationship. 周五上午，埃隆·马斯克旗下脑机接口公司 Neuralink 的高管兼得力助手希冯·齐里斯（Shivon Zilis）——同时也是马斯克已知的 14 个孩子中 4 个孩子的母亲——在马斯克的社交媒体平台 X 上宣布了他们关系的一场突变。
“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 wrote, 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. “在毫无预警的情况下，一周内从相爱到被‘放手’，这很难受，但有时生活就是这样，”齐里斯写道，并分享了一张来自 X 账号 @BigTechAlert 的截图，显示马斯克已经取消了对她的关注。齐里斯的帖子继续写道：“我感到很欣慰，因为我曾让埃隆感受到被深度理解、呵护，以及在稳定与温柔中被平静地爱着是什么感觉，”随后她对马斯克表达了热情的赞美和美好的祝愿。“我真心希望并祈祷我们能成为很好的朋友和共同抚养孩子的伙伴，”齐里斯总结道。这番话让两人之间究竟发生了什么，以及她是否仍担任 Neuralink 运营与特殊项目总监一职留下了悬念，不过目前看来她并未离职。
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 Justine Wilson, Claire Boucher (better known as Grimes), and Ashley St. Clair—have used X to share details of their time with him or push back against his own claims. 虽然这是一次关于私事的离奇披露，但对于马斯克那令人眼花缭乱的复杂家庭生活来说，这似乎并不罕见。目前，所有四位被证实与他育有子女的女性——齐里斯、前妻贾斯汀·威尔逊（Justine Wilson）、克莱尔·鲍彻（Claire Boucher，艺名 Grimes）以及阿什利·圣克莱尔（Ashley St. Clair）——都曾利用 X 分享过她们与他相处时的细节，或反驳他本人的言论。
Both Wilson and St. Clair participated in filmmaker Alex Gibney’s sprawling new documentary Musk, in theaters nationwide on October 16 and screening at the WIRED World Fair 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. 威尔逊和圣克莱尔都参与了电影制作人亚历克斯·吉布尼（Alex Gibney）的大型新纪录片《马斯克》（Musk），该片于 10 月 16 日在全国影院上映，并将于下个月在迈阿密的 WIRED 世界博览会上放映。曾是保守派网红的圣克莱尔声称，她拒绝了一份价值 4000 万美元的保密协议，该协议本会阻止她谈论自己与马斯克之间动荡的关系。在众多科技企业家、记者和马斯克前员工中，这两位女性无疑是片中最关键的批判性声音，她们揭示了马斯克在硅谷的崛起，以及他在 2024 年大选期间转向“让美国再次伟大”（MAGA）极端主义的过程。
At a run time of nearly four hours, Musk 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 landing on Mars and the corporate colonization of Texas to the fatal collisions involving “self-driving” Teslas and the annihilation of the US Agency for International Development by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) 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.) 《马斯克》时长近四个小时，听起来是一部令人望而生畏的纪录片，但看完后，你会不禁怀疑它是否应该拍成一部 10 集的迷你剧。因为片中涵盖的内容实在太多：从登陆火星的不切实际野心和对德克萨斯州的“企业殖民”，到涉及“自动驾驶”特斯拉的致命碰撞，再到特朗普第二任期伊始，所谓的“政府效率部”（DOGE）对美国国际开发署的摧毁。（纪录片引用了 WIRED 的报道，并采访了全球编辑总监凯蒂·德拉蒙德（Katie Drummond）和特约编辑佐伊·希弗（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 who 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. 除了对马斯克作为一位全能且不可触碰的寡头职业生涯的快速、全面叙述外，他的前伴侣们提供了关于他真实面目的关键背景，拼凑出了一幅令人震惊的肖像：一个会通过在社交媒体上取消关注来“放手”重要伴侣的男人。
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 replied, “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.” 威尔逊动情地回忆了他们第一个孩子因婴儿猝死综合征（SIDS）相关疾病去世的往事，这与马斯克在 X 上发布的一条帖子形成了鲜明对比。马斯克在帖中写道，他在儿子去世时抱着他——对此，他的前妻回应道：“除了我之外，这对任何人来说可能都不重要，因为这是我一生中最神圣、最决定性的时刻之一，但当时抱着他的人是我。”
In the film, she also addresses the pain of Musk repeatedly insisting that their transgender daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson, was “killed by the woke mind virus,” 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. 在片中，她还谈到了马斯克反复坚称他们的跨性别女儿薇薇安·詹娜·威尔逊（Vivian Jenna Wilson）被“觉醒心智病毒（woke mind virus）杀死了”所带来的痛苦。考虑到他们曾共同经历过失去一个孩子的真实伤痛，她称这种言论是不可理喻的。马斯克随后告诉吉布尼，就在他传达了“永远爱”威尔逊的信息后，他切断了女儿的医疗保险，并表示他“从未尝试过”与她修复关系。
“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.” “他总是不断地指出他认为我做得不够好的地方，”威尔逊在回忆他们的婚姻时说。她声称，当她提醒丈夫她是他的配偶而非员工时，他告诉她：“如果你是我的员工，我早就把你开除了。”在总结他们整体的关系模式时，她说：“我通过与埃隆的关系学会了‘煤气灯效应’（gaslighting，指心理操纵）这个词。”
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. (Musk 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 The Wall Street Journal, 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 not to be included in the outlet’s reporting.) 自 2025 年初透露马斯克与她育有一子以来，圣克莱尔一直公开反抗马斯克。她声称，她与这位亿万富翁的闪电恋情只是一种短暂的兼容性错觉，最终导致了一场混乱且持续至今的监护权之争。（马斯克还涉及与 Grimes 的监护权纠纷，该纠纷最终以未公开的条款达成和解。）圣克莱尔在片中表示，马斯克在她怀孕后就对她失去了兴趣，并声称他试图与其他女性生育孩子。据《华尔街日报》报道，这其中包括加密货币网红蒂芙尼·方（Tiffany Fong），马斯克曾发信息提出要让她怀上他的孩子。（马斯克未立即回复对此事的置评请求。方拒绝就《华尔街日报》的报道发表公开评论，仅表示她曾要求不要被纳入该媒体的报道中。）
“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 children as replaceable “breeders.” “他的私信就像一把加特林机枪在发射精子，”圣克莱尔打趣道。在片中的采访中，她和威尔逊都对这位前任关于出生率的观点以及他想要繁衍“军团”般后代的野心表示不安，威尔逊甚至称他将孩子们的母亲视为可替换的“生育机器”。
Elsewhere in the film, St. Clair covers her allegation that Musk retaliated against her by reducing his financial support for their son, Romulus. And her reluctance to touch on certain issues the filmmakers ask her about seems to serve as something of an answer in its own right. “I’m not at liberty to say,” she responds carefully when asked if she ever witnessed Musk using illegal drugs. 在影片的其他部分，圣克莱尔谈到了她的指控，即马斯克通过减少对他们儿子罗穆卢斯（Romulus）的经济支持来报复她。而她对制片人询问的某些问题表现出的回避，本身似乎就是一种回答。当被问及是否曾目睹马斯克使用非法药物时，她谨慎地回应道：“我不便透露。”
Gibney’s broad account of how Musk wove together a tech empire and his celebrity image through relentless self-mythologizing, then insulated it from gov… 吉布尼通过这部纪录片全面叙述了马斯克如何通过不断的自我神话，将科技帝国与个人名人形象编织在一起，并将其与政府……（注：原文此处截断）