Elon Musk and singer Grimes.Getty Images
Tycoon Elon Musk and singer Grimes, who have three children together, appear to be having a personal, legal battle and, of course, history. The couple, who dated between (roughly) early 2018 and spring 2022, have three children together and are in the middle of a battle over who gets custody of them, where they live, and who they depend on for support. When it became known on Tuesday that the 35-year-old Canadian artist had filed a lawsuit against Musk, it was learned three days later that he was the first: he had filed it a month ago. However, it seems that they have reached an extreme agreement that has prevented the trial that would decide the fate of their children and that was scheduled to take place this Friday.
Grimes, 35, sued Musk, 52, in California on September 29, and only one sentence emerged from that lawsuit: that he had filed “a request to establish a paternal relationship.” This is a legal figure that allows parents to recognize that their children are actually theirs if they are not married to their mother, as is the case with this couple and as happened a few months ago with Al Pacino and Noor Alfallah, the mother of your son, that was the case. Once this “paternal relationship” is established, one can begin to request custody, support, visitation arrangements… However, it has now also become known that the mother has also requested physical custody of the children and that she has filed “a” request has filed an “Order of Common Removal” so that the children cannot leave California, where she lives. Musk lives in Texas and wants to prevent him from taking it.
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Although it seemed like Grimes had made the first move (in fact, she had already realized a few days earlier that Musk had beaten him to it). This is evidenced by a new complaint that was leaked three days after his complaint came to light. As Insider revealed, Elon Musk filed a lawsuit against Claire Boucher (the singer’s real name) in San Francisco last month on September 7, more than three weeks before his ex-partner. It arrived on the 13th and she reported him on the 29th.
In the lawsuit, Musk also specifically requested to establish “a parent-child relationship” with the three children in order to have access to them. Additionally, the tycoon accused Grimes of fleeing Texas and settling in California “in an apparent attempt to evade the jurisdiction” of the southern state where Musk has resided “for at least the last six consecutive months.” Although Musk was confident that they could decide on custody of the little ones – courts to make the decision if they couldn’t. According to his lawsuit, also leaked by Page Six, Grimes has stated he is not a resident of the state, although both and their children were there in May, June and July lived in the same house in the same year.
Grimes with Elon Musk at the Met Gala on May 7, 2018.Charles Sykes (AP)
Ultimately, the two reached an agreement that prevents them from attending a hearing that took place this Friday and for which no details were disclosed. None of them wanted to publicly expose their children or the case, and in fact the legal documents made it difficult to identify them, calling each of them only by the first letter of their middle names (R for him, Elon Reeve Musk; and E for she, Claire Elise Boucher) and they did not give these for the children. In fact, Musk claimed in his lawsuit that the fact that the case and information about it were leaked “could endanger the health, safety and freedom” of both him and Grimes and the children. However, everything has finally leaked out.
The couple’s chronology, the upheavals in their relationship and their personalities make it difficult to predict what will happen in this case. In May 2018, they made their relationship public at the Metropolitan Museum gala in New York, and in May 2020, their first child was born under the controversial name X Æ A-12, which they changed to X Æ A-Xii. A year and a half later, in September 2021, they announced that they were “semi-separated.” “But we still love each other, we see each other often and get along very well,” he said at the time. Such good conditions that they were close to having another child, a girl named Y, albeit secretly. Her birth was through a surrogate and took place in December 2021, but it became known when she revealed it during an interview for Vanity Fair. They later had another son, Tau, according to a recent biography of Musk, a baby also born to a surrogate mother.
So the couple’s relationship continued to come and go, even more so as they began living together last spring and raising their children, three of the ten that Musk has (five with his first wife and one-and-a-half-year-old twins). together). to one of his employees). At the moment the situation has been channeled between the two and they have managed to reach an agreement at the last minute. In any case, the man who bought Twitter and renamed it X demands that the agreement be in writing and that the terms of the guardianship of the children be clarified. If the agreement they reached today is unsuccessful, he will seek mediation, and if unsuccessful, he intends for the matter to continue its legal path in Texas, including a trial.