Grimes Takes Legal Action Against Elon Musk for Custody of Their Three Children

The singer Grimes has filed a lawsuit against her ex-boyfriend Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla and SpaceX, for parental rights of their three children. The lawsuit comes after Grimes accused Musk of not allowing her to see one of their sons, Techno Mechanicus, who was born in 2022 and whose existence was revealed by a biography of Musk last month.

Grimes, whose legal name is Claire Boucher, filed a “petition to establish parental relationship” on Friday, October 3, 2023, in the Superior Court of San Francisco. This petition is often filed when two parents are unmarried and one of them is trying to have their parentage of a child legally recognized, or when seeking child support or custody. As of now, Musk has not filed a response to Grimes’s petition and the singer has not filed a request for custody or child support. The details of the petition are not public and the lawyers of both parties have not commented on the case.

Grimes and Musk dated from 2018 to 2021 and have three children together: X Æ A-Xii, Exa Dark Sideræl, and Techno Mechanicus. Musk has seven other children from previous relationships: Nevada (deceased), Griffin, Xavier, Damian, Saxon, Kai, and the twins with another woman, Shivon Zilis. Grimes also claimed that she had never seen a photo of Musk’s twins with Zilis until they were posted online. Grimes and Zilis later said that they had resolved their issues and were looking forward to their children growing up together.