Claire Boucher, 35, who goes by her stage name Grimes, accused her children’s father of ‘ripping my family apart’ and said that the mother of his twins, Shivon Zilis, had blocked her on Twitter.
According to screenshots of a now-deleted tweet – underneath a picture of Musk and the two children he shares with Zilis – Grimes wrote: ‘Tell Shivon to unblock me and tell Elon to let me see my son or plz respond to my lawyer.
‘I have never even been allowed to see a photo of these children until this moment, despite the situation utterly ripping my family apart.’
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Claire Boucher, known by her stage name Grimes, accused her children’s father Elon Musk of ‘ripping my family apart’ and said that the mother of his twins had blocked her on Twitter
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The tweet has since been deleted, but was written underneath a new image of Musk and the twins who he had with Zilis
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Representatives for Grimes have been contacted for comment.
She allegedly wrote the comment under the newly released image of Elon Musk with the Neuralink director and the twins they quietly had together nearly two years ago.
The twins, Strider and Azure, were born in November 2021, just weeks before Musk and Boucher had their second child via surrogate.
Musk’s complicated personal life has involved three marriages and three divorces, including two of each with the same woman, and seven children from two long-term romances plus the twins with Zilis they conceived via in vitro fertilization.
Elon started dating Grimes in April 2018, and the eccentric couple captured headlines when they made their red carpet debut at the Met Gala the following month.
Amid a series of breakups and reconnections, the pair welcomed their first son ‘X AE A-XII’ in May 2020.
Their second child Exa Dark Sideræl, who goes by Y, was born via surrogate in December 2021.
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The twins Strider and Azure (pictured here aged 16 months with their parents Elon Musk and Shivon Zilis) were born in November 2021, just weeks before Musk and Claire Boucher, the musician who performs as Grimes, had their second child via surrogate
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SpaceX founder Elon Musk and Canadian musician Grimes in 2018
2021: Grimes enjoys a trip to italy with her son X AE A-XII
Musk had his other children with his ex-wife, Canadian author Justine Wilson.
He married Justine Wilson in 2000. Their first son Nevada tragically passed away at 10 weeks in 2002, before the couple welcomed twins Griffin and Xavier in 2004.
Xavier – now 19 – has since transitioned to female. She is called Vivian and has dropped her father’s famous surname – after telling a court that she ‘no longer wishes to be related’ to him ‘in any way.’
Zilis, who was born in Ontario, Canada, met Musk through OpenAI, the artificial-intelligence research-and-deployment nonprofit Musk co-founded in 2015, Insider reported.
In 2015, Zilis was on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list in the venture-capital category and in 2017, joined Musk’s brain chip company Neuralink as the director of operations and special projects, according to her LinkedIn profile.
Musk and Zilis filed a petition in April last year to change the twins’ names in order to ‘have their father’s last name and contain their mother’s last name as part of their middle name,’ according to the court documents.
The picture of Musk, Zilis and the twins – posted by Musk’s biographer Walter Isaacson – was taken at Zilis’ house in Austin, Texas, according to an excerpt of the biography published in Time.
