Elon Musk, the billionaire loose cannon whose latest exploits appear to include impeding the Ukrainian military, now seems to be facing a war closer to home. In a since-deleted post to X (formerly Twitter), the social media platform Musk owns, his one-time paramour Grimes claims that Musk refuses to allow her access to one of the children they share, and suggests that another of his parental collaborators refuses to speak with her.
As with so many stories about Musk lately (see, the Zuckerberg/MMA brawl kerfuffle), biographer Walter Isaacson is near its center. This time, it began when Isaacson tweeted a photo of Musk with employee/mother of two of his other children Shivon Zilis, and the twins they ostensibly share.
Those children were born in November 2021, just weeks before he welcomed a daughter, named Exa Dark Sideræl Musk, with Grimes. In an interview with Vanity Fair a few months after Exa’s birth, Grimes revealed the child’s existence, and said of her relationship with Musk, “I would probably refer to him as my boyfriend, but we’re very fluid. We live in separate houses. We’re best friends. We see each other all the time. … We just have our own thing going on, and I don’t expect other people to understand.”
That fluidity reached an endpoint after that interview, with Grimes tweeting in March 2022 that Musk is “my best friend and the love of my life,” but that the two had parted ways for good.
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Exa, who was born via surrogate, was the fluid couple’s second child: their son, X Æ A-12, was born in May of 2020. But despite their two kids together, it appears that Grimes’ friendly relationship with Musk has crumbled, a situation that some might see as long in the making.
Proof of that crumble is arguably Grimes’ since-deleted reaction to Isaacson’s tweet (which itself was a promotion of a Time-published excerpt of his upcoming Musk bio), in which Grimes responded, “Tell Shivon to unblock me and tell Elon to let me see my son or plz respond to my lawyer.”
Referring to the image of Musk with Zilis and their kids, she posted, “I have never been allowed to see a photo of these children until this moment, despite the situation utterly ripping my family apart.” (Jezebel, among many other publications, screencapped the tweet before deletion.)
Musk is the parent of at least nine children with at least three women (though, as TechCrunch notes, those are just the ones he or his circle has mentioned publicly), but this since-vanished tweet is just the latest indication that all is not well with the Musk Bunch. In another Isaacson-driven item, Musk said that he’s estranged from 19-year-old daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson, due to her alleged infection with a so-called “woke mind virus” that includes opposition to excessive wealth.
It’s worth noting here that Wilson is trans, while Musk has been loudly disdainful of transgender folks, to the point of declaring the term “cisgender” “a slur.” That might help explain why, though Musk says, “I’ve made many overtures” toward Wilson, “she doesn’t want to spend time with me.”
Eve Batey
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