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Grimes’ Mom Accuses Elon Musk of “Withholding” Couple’s Kids From Seeing Dying Relative
Grimes is providing penetration into a hard period.
The "Genesis" vocalist alleged that she didn't spot 1 of her and ex Elon Musk's 3 kids—son X Æ A-Xii, 4, girl Exa Dark Sideræl, 3, and lad Techno Mechanicus, 2—for 5 months amid her ongoing custody conflict with the Tesla CEO, who she divided from successful 2022 pursuing 4 years of dating.
"Spent a twelvemonth locked successful conflict successful a authorities with unspeakable mothers rights having my instagram posts and modeling utilized arsenic reasons I shouldn't person my kids," Grimes wrote successful a station connected X (formerly Twitter) Nov. 25, "and warring and detaching from the emotion of my beingness arsenic helium becomes unrecognizable to me."
Grimes (real sanction Claire Elise Boucher) alleged that she fought him for custody with “a fraction of his resources (or iq/ strategy experience), each the portion I didn't spot 1 of my babies for 5 months."
But the 36-year-old noted that she wanted to support the details of the challenging clip private. As she explained, "This is lone what tin beryllium said publicly, since astir of my acquisition these past years should stay down closed doors."
E! News reached retired to Elon's PR squad astatine Tesla for remark but hasn't heard back.
And portion Grimes said she experienced immoderate lows implicit the past year, she's besides grateful for "every slug I caught." In fact, it's allowed her to pat into a caller benignant of creativity that led to producing her adjacent album.
"I consciousness connected apical of the satellite close now," she wrote. "And everything that utilized to springiness maine anxiousness feels similar child's play aft each this. Ego death, ego commencement - it's everything an creator could imagination of."
And her custody conflict with Elon—who, on with X Æ, Techno and Exa, is begetter to 9 different children from different relationships—isn't the lone mode she's earned caller position arsenic of late. Motherhood has besides taught Grimes a lot.
"Having babies rips you isolated and puts you backmost together," she explained. "Babies are 10 1000 doctrine classes of s--t you tin lone larn from that experience."
Grimes and Elon, 53, person been locked successful a ineligible quality since October 2023, erstwhile the "Oblivion" vocalist filed a petition against him to found parental rights, according to tribunal documents obtained by NBC News. Their conflict has played retired successful some California and Texas courts, with the cases sealed from nationalist access, per the outlet.
And though Elon has not spoken publically connected their custody case, Grimes' ma Sandy Garossino antecedently addressed him straight successful an unfastened letter, successful which she accused him of withholding the passports of the musician's 3 children to forestall them from traveling to spot their ailing great-grandmother.
"I constitute with a grandmother’s plea," Sandy wrote connected X successful July, "asking you to honour your agreement, instrumentality the children, and supply the documents they request to spot their large grandma earlier she passes."
"Please Elon, I beg you," she added. "This is truthful achy for my mother, and concerning for the kids. Time is of the essence now."
For much connected Elon's analyzable household tree, support reading.
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Maye Musk (Mom)
Maye was calved successful Saskatchewan, Canada and emigrated with her parents to Pretoria, South Africa successful 1950, erstwhile she was 7. She and Elon's father, Errol Musk, divided successful 1979.
After Elon moved to Canada astatine property 17, Maye obtained Canadian citizenship by birthright and moved determination too. There, she established a dietician signifier and became President of the Consulting Dieticians of Canada. She besides worked arsenic a model.
In 2019, aft Elon sold his institution Zip2 for much than $300 million, helium bought his ma an flat successful New York City, wherever she lived for 13 years and continued her modeling vocation aft being signed to the IMG Models agency.
"I brought my children up similar my parents brought america up erstwhile we were young: to beryllium independent, kind, honest, considerate and polite," Maye wrote in an essay for CNBC. "I taught them the value of moving hard and doing bully things."
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Errol Musk (Dad)
Elon's begetter is an technologist and similar Elon, was calved successful South Africa.
Though Errol said successful a 2015 Forbes interrogation that helium utilized to often instrumentality his kids connected trips overseas—"Their parent and I divided up erstwhile they were rather young and the kids stayed with me. I took them each implicit the world."—his narration with Elon isn't representation perfect.In an affectional 2017 Rolling Stone interview, Elon criticized his begetter and talked astir his upbringing, saying that aft his parents split, helium moved successful with his dad, which, helium said, "was not a bully idea."
However, Errol told Rolling Stone, "I emotion my children and would readily bash immoderate for them."
Following his divorcement from Maye, Errol joined Heide, whose daughter Jana Bezuidenhout was 4 years aged astatine the time. Errol and Heide went connected to have two daughters unneurotic before they, too, broke up.
Years later, Jana reached retired to Errol pursuing a breakup of her own. "We were lonely, mislaid people," Errol explained in a 2018 interrogation with The Sunday Times. "One happening led to another—you tin telephone it God's program oregon nature's plan."
Either way, the duo became romanticist and welcomed lad Elliott successful 2017 and past a babe miss successful 2019. As Errol enactment it to The Sun, "The lone happening we are connected Earth for is to reproduce. If I could person different kid I would. I can't spot immoderate crushed not to."
Kimbal Musk & Tosca Musk (Siblings)
Kimbal, calved successful 1972, is simply a restauranteur and the laminitis of The Kitchen, a corporate of 5 restaurants that root straight from section farmers. He besides runs a non-profit, Big-Green, that has built 200 learning gardens successful schools crossed the U.S., the outlet said.
Tosca, calved successful 1974, is simply a filmmaker. In 2017, she founded Passionflix, a female-focused streaming work that targets the billion-dollar romance caller industry.
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Justine Wilson (Ex-Wife)
Elon and Canadian-born Justine, his assemblage sweetheart from Queen's University successful Ontario, joined successful 2000. In a 2010 nonfiction she penned for Marie Claire, titled I Was a Starter Wife: Inside America's Messiest Divorce, Justine said that portion dancing astatine their wedding reception, Elon told her, "I americium the alpha successful this marriage."
"I shrugged it off," Wilson wrote, "just arsenic I would aboriginal motion disconnected signing the postnuptial agreement, but arsenic clip went on, I learned that helium was serious."
The 2 faced an unthinkable calamity erstwhile their babe lad Nevada Alexander died astatine 10 weeks from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). "Nevada went down for a nap, placed connected his backmost arsenic always, and stopped breathing," Justine wrote successful her article.
The mates pursued IVF to conceive again and went connected to invited 5 much kids: Twins Vivian and Griffin and triplets Kai, Saxon and Damian.
In 2008, Elon filed for divorce.
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Griffin, Kai, Damian & Saxon Musk (Sons)
In 2022, Elon revealed helium took Griffin and the triplets to conscionable Pope Francis. While helium was honored to conscionable the caput of the Catholic church, Elon added of his 'fit, "My suit is tragic."
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Vivian Jenna Wilson (Daughter)
Also successful 2022, Griffin's duplicate sister filed a petition to alteration her afloat sanction successful accordance with her caller sex identity, writing, "I nary longer unrecorded with oregon privation to beryllium related to my biologic begetter successful immoderate way, signifier oregon form."
In July 2024, Elon spoke retired astir his daughter's transition. "I mislaid my son, essentially," helium said successful a Daily Wire interrogation with Jordan Peterson, adding that his child, who helium referred to by her commencement name, was "dead, killed by the woke caput virus."
He besides alleged that helium was "tricked" into signing aesculapian documents granting Vivian gender-affirming treatments.
She disputed his comments. "He was not by immoderate means tricked," she said successful an NBC News. "He knew the afloat broadside effects."
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Talulah Riley (Ex-Wife)
Elon and Talulah—who starred connected HBO's Westworld—married successful 2010. "It each happened precise fast," she told CBS News. "We were engaged after, I think, 2 weeks of knowing each other."
The 2 divorced successful 2012, past remarried a twelvemonth aboriginal earlier divorcing again successful 2016. In June 2024, she wed Love Actually alum Thomas Brodie-Sangster.
Amber Heard (Ex-Girlfriend)
Elon and Amber went nationalist with their romance successful aboriginal 2017, a twelvemonth aft she filed for divorcement from Johnny Depp and Elon ended his (second) matrimony to Talulah. Though their narration didn't past long.
"I conscionable broke up with my girlfriend," Elon told Rolling Stone at the time. "I was truly successful love, and it wounded bad...Well, she broke up with maine much than I broke up with her, I think."
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Grimes (Ex-Girlfriend)
Elon and the vocalist dated on-and-off for 4 years, starting successful 2018. In September 2021, Elon told Page Six that helium and Grimes "are, I'd say, astir apt semi-separated," adding, "It's mostly that my enactment astatine SpaceX and Tesla requires maine to beryllium chiefly successful Texas oregon traveling overseas and her enactment is chiefly successful LA. She's staying with maine present and Baby X is successful the adjacent room."
However, successful March 2022, she told Vanity Fair that they "live successful abstracted houses" and are "best friends."
She aboriginal tweeted, "Me and E person breached up *again* since the penning of this nonfiction haha, but he's my champion person and the emotion of my life, and my beingness and creation are everlastingly dedicated to The Mission now."
When quality broke successful September 2023 that the mates stock 3 children together, the "Crystal Ball" vocalist confirmed that, yes, their astir caller summation Techno Mechanicus had joined son X Æ A-12, 3, and daughter Exa Dark Sideræl.
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X Æ A-Xii Musk (Son)
In 2020, Elon and Grimes welcomed their archetypal kid together, a son. They soon modified the spelling of his sanction successful bid to conscionable California's ineligible guidelines, which lone licence letters from the English alphabet. Switching implicit to roman numerals, the parents agreed to spell his name, X Æ A-Xii.
"X, the chartless variable," Grimes explained connected Twitter. "Æ, my elven spelling of Ai (love &/or Artificial intelligence) A-12 = precursor to SR-17 (our favourite aircraft). No weapons, nary defenses, conscionable speed. Great successful battle, but non-violent."
Grimes continued, "A=Archangel, my favourite song" adding a rat and sword emoji. "Metal rat."
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Exa Dark Sideræl & Techno Mechanicus Musk (Kids)
In her 2022 Vanity Fair interview, Grimes revealed she and Elon privately welcomed a babe girl via surrogacy.
"Exa is simply a notation to the supercomputing word exaFLOPS (the quality to execute 1 quintillion floating-point operations per second)," she said. "Dark, meanwhile, is the unknown. People fearfulness it but genuinely it's the lack of photons. Dark substance is the beauteous enigma of our universe.'"
Sideræl—pronounced "sigh-deer-ee-el"—is, according to mom, "the existent clip of the universe, prima time, heavy abstraction time, not our comparative world time," and a motion to her favourite Lord of the Rings character, Galadriel, who "chooses to abdicate the ring."
Walter Isaacson revealed successful his biography Elon Musk that Exa was calved successful December 2021 via surrogate.
The publication besides stated that astir Father's Day 2022, the on-again, off-again mates welcomed a kid named Techno Mechanicus, nicknamed Tau, besides via surrogate. The biography includes a photo, dated June 2022, of Elon feeding the babe boy.
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Strider & Azure (Kids)
In 2022, Business Insider published tribunal documents that stated Elon welcomed twins successful November 2021 with Neuralink enforcement Shivon Zilis. The babies were calved successful Austin, Texas, wherever helium lives.
He besides seemingly weighed successful connected the study connected X, writing, "Doing my champion to assistance the underpopulation crisis. A collapsing commencement complaint is the biggest information civilization faces by far."
"Mark my words," helium added, "they are sadly true."
Walter Isaacson wrote successful his 2023 biography Elon Musk that the twins' afloat names are Strider Sekhar Sirius and Azure Astra Alice.
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Baby No. 12
In 2024, Elon and Zilis welcomed their 3rd babe together. The billionaire confirmed the quality successful June 2024, telling Page Six, "All our friends and household know," adding, "Failure to contented a property release, which would beryllium bizarre, does not mean 'secret.'"
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