Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Monday, April 21st.

Today on Forbes, why Elon Musk's first wife isn't even close to being a billionaire.

Long before he became a household name and before he began fathering multiple children with

several single women, Elon Musk was a married man. His first marriage,

to Canada-born novelist Justine Wilson Musk, lasted eight years from 2000 to 2008. During that time,

Justine bore him six children, the first of whom died tragically as an infant, followed by twins and triplets.

But while Elon is now the wealthiest person in the world, Justine is merely a millionaire,

worth some $15 million, Forbes estimates, or about one 24,000th of Elon's current $364 billion

fortune.

In many ways, his handling of Justine gave Elon a template for how to treat all the mothers,

at least four so far, of his much-desired so-called, quote, legion of children.

Now counting 14 known kids.

Musk offered Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of his children,

$15 million and $100,000 a month in exchange for her silence about the child, whom they named Romulus, and quickly pulled back the offer after St. Clair went public about Musk being the father,

the Wall Street Journal reported last week.

While Elon has recently taken to X to proposition women to have his children, according to the journal,

he met his first wife in old-fashioned way, at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada,

where both were students there until Musk transferred to the University of Pennsylvania's

Wharton School to finish his degree.

They picked up dating again in the mid-1990s, when Justine moved to Silicon Valley and lived

with Elon in an apartment they shared with roommates, while he was busy building software

firm Zip 2, which he founded in 1995 with his brother Kimball

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