A wedding is supposed to come with flowers, champagne, and promises about forever. For Elon Musk’s first wife, it also came with a lawyer and a financial agreement she believed wouldn’t matter because the marriage wasn’t going anywhere. She was mistaken about that part. Years later, the document would become a central piece of their divorce while the fortune surrounding it grew from millions into the trillions.
Author Justine Musk met the future billionaire at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, when both were students. In her 2010 Marie Claire essay, she described an ambitious young man who took her writing seriously and told her he saw “a fire in my soul.”
