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The former couple share three children, including four-year-old X, who Musk regularly sees.
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Court records show Musk and Grimes argued over whether the children lived in Texas or California.
Elon Musk’s custody battle with Grimes in Texas was settled in August, nearly a year after the Tesla CEO sued the singer in the state.
The couple fought over the three children they share: four-year-old X Æ A-12, also known as baby X, two-year-old Exa, and two-year-old Tau.
Last year, Musk and Grimes filed lawsuits in two different states, Texas and California, respectively, arguing over where the children lived and where the case should go.
Here’s a timeline of the custody battle, including when the lawsuits were filed, and how Musk and Grimes filed lawsuits.
April 22, 2022: Grimes filed a petition in Los Angeles
Grimes said in a recent court filing that she first filed a motion to “monitor the parental relationship” in Los Angeles on April 22, 2022. Business Insider was unable to independently locate it in Los Angeles County’s online courts database.
The document would have been filed a few months before Musk and Grimes welcomed their third child, Techno Mechanicusor Tau, via surrogate in June 2022. Musk had also given birth to another child with Grimes via surrogate in December 2021, Exa Dark Sideræl.
Musk started a plan of buy Twitter (now X) in April 2022. The couple had gone out to see Grimes’ parents on April 9, but Musk had remained at the hotel in “stress mode,” weighing whether to buy a social media company, Grimes told Walter Isaacson. . The billionaire finally did his thing $44 billion bid on April 14.
What followed was a difficult year for both Grimes and Musk. The broker started he slept at the headquarters of the social media company and entered the series of political conflicts.
That same year, Grimes also learned that Musk had given birth to twins different from the director at one of his first. In July 2022, Grimes learned about Twins of Musk and Shivon Zilis via a Business Insider report, according to Isaacson’s biography on Musk.
In August 2023, Grimes and Musk went to Tokyo together, but Musk said in his application that their relationship broke down shortly after. He said Grimes flew back to California on a commercial flight on Aug. 23 and that their young children “have not been back to Texas” since, according to court documents.
September 7, 2023: Musk blames Grimes
Musk sued Grimes in Texas in early September to “start a parent-child relationship” with their three children.
In her plea, she said she took legal action after she realized Grimes “wasn’t going back to Texas with the little kids.” Meanwhile, their eldest son, X, had stayed with Musk in Texas.
On the same day Musk filed his own custody suit, Grimes he wrote and quickly deleted the post on X calling Musk to “let me see my son or plz answer to my lawyer,” adding in response to the photo of Musk and Zilis: “I have not even been allowed to see a picture of these children until now, even though the situation is tearing my family apart completely.”
Grimes and Zilis later went to social networks saying that they are no longer fighting.
Grimes (left) and Shivon Zilis (right).Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic; Stephen Lam
September 29, 2023: Grimes sues Musk
Weeks after the Texas suit, Grimes sued Musk in San Francisco, requesting custody and legal custody of their three children.
Meanwhile, Musk stepped in the immigration debateto visit the US-Mexico border on September 28 and call for a Trump-style wall.
Ten days earlier, Musk took his three-year-old son, X, to a meeting with the Turkish president in New York. The incident led to a negative exchange in which Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan asked Musk where his “wife” was.
“Oh, he’s in San Francisco,” Musk replied. “We’re different, I take care of him a lot.”
October 6, 2023: Grimes says the kids don’t live in Texas
Grimes responded to Musk’s ruling in October, arguing that Texas was not the jurisdiction of the prison war. In the complaint, Grimes stated that two of the children had been living with her in California for more than six months prior to the incident and that California is their home.
He admitted that one of the children, X, was not in California, but said he was only out of state because of his denial.
On October 5, Musk learned that he was under investigation by the US Securities and Exchange Commission for his purchase of Twitter, while on October 7, Musk’s X struggled to combat falsehoods about the Israel-Hamas war. His company continues to monitor advertisers’ exits over reports of unaddressed hate speech on this site.
November 3, 2023: Grimes to follow down Musk
Grimes was released in court records on Nov. 3 as far as his team went use Musk paper for storageit included following his own instincts.
Again on November 3, Musk sat down to find out interview and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to talk about AI policy, following a global summit in that case.
November 20, 2023: Musk accuses Grimes of trying to avoid Texas courts
Musk filed a revised proposal on November 20 that accused Grimes of moving to California this year to avoid a Texas ruling, where a billionaire could be ordered to pay significantly less in child support.
The petition was filed just days after Musk faced backlash for his appearance add an anti-semitic post at X. Tesla owners and investors alike he said over a billion. Then Musk appeared to go to what others were saying “Apology Tour” on November 27.
November 28, 2023: Musk sounds out about security concerns
Musk asked a Texas judge to stay out of his fight for the safety of his children.
That same week, Musk sat down for a surprise interview with Andrew Sorkin at the Dealbook Summit. At the event, Musk told X’s advertisers who had fled the platform to “Go cover yourself” and even directed his comments directly to Disney CEO Bob Iger.
November 30, 2023: Grimes says Musk won’t let nurses testify against him
In court records filed in late November, Grimes accused Musk of not allowing their children’s nannies to testify against him. Family law experts have previously told Insider that interviews with nannies can be used to help identify where children live.
Grimes said Musk was using the non-disclosure agreements he once had with the nannies to prevent them from speaking out. However, he said Musk was “cherry-picking” information from nannies for help.
On November 30, Tesla held its biggest event of the year – Cybertruck delivery. The 30-minute event drew attention from some Tesla fans after Musk failed to deliver on some of his promises for the car, including its price and range.
Elon Musk and his son X Æ A-12.Theo Wargo/Getty Images for TIME
December 4, 2023: Musk explains the evidence of children living in Texas
In an amended complaint filed in a Texas court, Musk linked Grimes’ personal social media posts in recent years in which the singer openly and widely stated that she lived in Austin, Texas – including posts from months after she said she had moved to California. his two young children.
Musk also explained about the children’s lives in Texas, including doctor visits and school. The banker also filed another request for the case to be closed, saying that his and his children’s safety is at risk as long as the documents are available to the public.
Meanwhile on social media, Musk continued to lash out at advertisers who are withdrawing from the social media platform. On Thursday, the billionaire took another shot at Iger, saying the Disney CEO should be “fired immediately.”
December 2023: A Texas judge confirms the case to the public
After Musk asked to stop public access to documents from the case, a Texas judge agreed to close the courtroom to the media and confirm the case.
Musk had said that people’s interest in the security war was not greater than the security of his children.
July 27, 2024: Grimes’ mother says Musk is ‘depriving’ the children
In a series of deleted scenes from X, Grimes’ mother, Sandy Garossino, spoke directly to Musk, asking him to allow the children to visit their 93-year-old grandmother.
“[Grimes] He was delighted with the children’s planned visit to celebrate his birthday this weekend. Today. But those hopes were dashed when the tour was cancelled,” Garossino wrote on X.
“I’m worried knowing that the kids can’t come as you’re denying them and their passport documents are required from Claire,” he added, referring to Grimes by her first name.
Garossino implied that Grimes did not know where the children were and asked him to “honor your agreement” and return the children and their documents to his daughter.
“Please Elon, I beg you. This hurts my mother, and about the children. Time is of the essence now,” he wrote.
August 2, 2024: Musk and Grimes meet in court for a detention hearing
The former couple appeared in a Texas court, where they presented a series of cases, including one that was brought to stay the trial.
The hearing was closed to the public.
Musk and Grimes’ legal representatives met one more time in court before the case was settled sometime in August.
November 20, 2024: Grimes opens up about custody dispute
The singer shared details about the legal battle in a post on X, saying that he hasn’t had time to work on creative projects lately because “the threat of losing your kids while going to the bank fighting for them hasn’t really sparked the creative mind. .”
“I just went to bed crying every minute that I wasn’t really fighting for my children that year,” he said.
In a follow-up post, Grimes said he had “a piece” of Musk’s wealth and resources.
“I spent a year locked in a war in a government with terrible mother’s rights with my instagram posts and a model used as reasons why I shouldn’t have my children and fighting and withdrawing from the love of my life as he is unknown to me, with a fraction of his resources (or iq/ knowledge), all the time I haven’t seen one of my babies for five months,” he said.
November 21, 2024: Business Insider reports that Grimes and Musk have ended their custody battle in Texas.
The clerk’s office in Travis County, Texas, confirmed that a judge issued a final ruling in the case in August.
The situation is listed as “closed,” according to the secretary’s office. Representatives for Musk and Grimes did not respond to a request for comment.
It is not known how the matter was resolved.
The status of Grimes’ first San Francisco case is also unclear. A representative from the San Francisco Superior Court told BI that they could not share information about the case because it was restricted.
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