Since they started dating more than five years ago, the relationship between entrepreneur Elon Musk (52) and singer Grimes (35) has always been hectic and has made rivers of ink flow. But even now, after many comings and goings and ending a while ago, their union continues to make headlines. Because during their years together the couple had three children, who today are the protagonists of a lawsuit that Grimes has filed against Elon Musk in California.
Claire Boucher – the real name of the Canadian artist – filed a lawsuit last Friday of which, for the moment, the only thing that is known is a phrase: that she has made "a request to establish a paternal relationship", as cited by media such as Page Six and TMZ. On Thursday, the singer wrote in her profile in X (formerly known as Twitter and now owned precisely by Musk) a message against her ex-partner, already deleted. "Tell Elon to let me see my son or please answer my lawyer."
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With that cry, launched probably on the worst possible platform to do so, Grimes seemed to refer to the smallest of his offspring, a boy named Techno Mechanicus and affectionately called Tau. It is the smallest of the three he has in common with the billionaire businessman, also owner of Tesla. The first was born in May 2020, and a certain controversy was generated when its name was known: X Æ A-12, a name that California laws forced them to change. Their second daughter was born a year and a half later, in December 2021, a girl named Exa Dark Sideræl and affectionately called Y, since the eldest is called X. His arrival in the world was known a few months later, when Grimes told it during an interview with Vanity Fair magazine. The girl was born by surrogacy.
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By then the couple was in one of their breakups. But, even so, they had one more son, Tau, also by surrogacy. Something that has been known now, this September, with the publication of a biography of Walter Isaacson about the businessman. When the couple's third child was born (the date is unknown), they were already separated again. This time it seems that with more force than the first, when they claimed that they were "semi-separated" and that they intended to raise their eldest son together. This lawsuit seems to discard that idea of flexible couple and realizes that the situation between the two of them is no longer so friendly.
Those "petitions to establish a paternal relationship" like the one demanded by Grimes seek that parents — especially when they have not been married, as happens between Musk and Boucher, and as recently happened with Al Pacino and Noor Alfallah, his partner — identify children legally. They are usually the first step to then formalize a request for custody or support regarding the support of the children. At the moment, the artist's lawyers (who have not responded to the media on this matter) have not taken the step, but the first is that legal recognition.
Elon Musk is the father of 10 children. Five of them, twins Griffin and Vivian (born Xavier and who wants to erase her father's surname) and triplets Kai, Saxon and Damian, were born from his first marriage with Canadian author Justine Wilson; In addition, they had another son who died at 10 weeks of birth. Along with Grimes she has three, and in June 2022 it was learned that she had had twins with Shivon Zilis, executive of Neuralink, one of her companies, which specializes in the development of wearables, elements that can be implanted in the brain. The couple maintains a friendly relationship.
Precisely Shivon Zillis referred to Grimes in his tweet against Musk: "Tell Shivon to unblock me and tell Elon to let me see my son or please answer my lawyer. I've never been allowed to see a picture of those children until now, even though this situation is completely tearing my family apart." As he told days later also in X, in a message already deleted, finally he could contact Shivon Zilis: "In the end I have spoken for a long time with Shivon, something necessary for a long time. It wasn't her fault, please don't be angry with her. We respect each other a lot and are happy to be friends and raise our children together." Zilis herself replied that everything was "over in the best way." But, in reality, it has only just begun.