Tuesday 21 June 2022 12:25 PM Inside billionaire Elon Musk's VERY complicated love life trends now

Tesla billionaire Elon Musk has a complicated relationship history including three marriages and three divorces, including two of each with the same woman, and seven children from two long-term romances. 

Musk married Canadian author Justine Wilson in 2000 and had six children, one of whom died at just 10 weeks, before the pair split in 2008. He went on to marry and divorce actress Talulah Riley twice between 2010 and 2016 before being briefly linked to Amber Heard after she split from Johnny Depp in 2017. 

The world's richest man then started an on-again, off-again relationship with Canadian singer Grimes, whose real name is Claire Boucher. The pair had two children, X Æ A-Xii and Exa Dark Sideræl, who goes by Y, before splitting in late 2021. 

The news was only revealed in March 2022 when an interview Grimes had given to Vanity Fair before their break up was published. She had told the outlet she 'would probably refer to Elon as her boyfriend' but after publication took to Twitter to reveal that they had since broken up. He is now dating flame-haired Australian actress Natasha Bassett, 30. 

It comes as it was revealed his son Xavier has filed court documents seeking to legally change their from male to female and lose their last name, stating: 'I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form.' 

Xavier Musk, 18, filed the paperwork in Santa Monica, California, on April 18, seeking to be known as Vivian Jenna Wilson. The transgender teenage explained that they wish to take their mother's last name to distance them from their dad. 

Here MailOnline takes a look back at Musk's tangled love life.  

Elon and Justine Wilson, now 50, met while they were both attending Queen's University in Ontario, Canada, and they tied the knot in 2000. The pair share five children but lost their firstborn, Nevada, in 2002 at just ten weeks old to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).

The five teenage boys have kept a fairly low profile, despite their father having joint custody after splitting from their mother in 2008.

After their divorce, she accused the entrepreneur - who has been called the wealthiest person in the world by Forbes - of treating her more like an 'employee' than a 'wife,' while slamming him for not showing her 'equality' or 'partnership.'

While discussing the day they first met, Justine described Elon as a 'clean-cut, upper-class boy with a South African accent who appeared in front of her one afternoon as she was leaping up the steps to her dorm,' during an essay for Marie Claire, which was written in 2010.

'He said we'd met at a party I knew I hadn't been to. (Years later, he would confess that he had noticed me from across the common room and decided he wanted to meet me.) He invited me out for ice cream. I said yes, but then blew him off with a note on my dorm-room door. 

'Several hours later, my head bent over my Spanish text in an overheated room in the student center, I heard a polite cough behind me. Elon was smiling awkwardly, two chocolate-chip ice cream cones dripping down his hands. He's not a man who takes no for an answer.' 

In her essay, Justine recalled feeling more like an 'employee' than a 'wife' to Elon.

'He had grown up in the male-dominated culture of South Africa, and the will to compete and dominate that made him so successful in business did not magically shut off when he came home,' she explained. This, and the vast economic imbalance between us, meant that in the months following our wedding, a certain dynamic began to take hold. 

'Elon's judgment overruled mine, and he was constantly remarking on the ways he found me lacking. "I am your wife," I told him repeatedly, "not your employee." 

'"If you were my employee," he said just as often, "I would fire you."'

She said that what ultimately led to their divorce in 2008 was a car accident, where her first thought was, 'My husband is going to kill me.'

She added: 'In my mind's eye, I could suddenly see myself: a woman who'd gotten very thin, and very blonde, stumbling out of a very expensive car with the front-left wheel smashed in. I barely recognized myself. I had turned into a trophy wife - and I sucked at it. I wasn't detail-oriented enough to maintain a perfect house or be a perfect hostess.

'I could no longer hide my boredom when the men talked and the women smiled and listened. I wasn't interested in Botox or makeup or reducing the appearance of the scars from my C-sections. And no matter how many highlights I got, Elon pushed me to be blonder. "Go platinum," he kept saying, and I kept refusing.

'Not long after the accident, I sat on our bed with my knees pulled up to my chest and tears in my eyes. I told Elon, in a soft voice that was nonetheless filled with conviction, that I needed our life to change. 

'I didn't want to be a sideline player in the multimillion-dollar spectacle of my husband's life. I wanted equality. I wanted partnership. I wanted to love and be loved, the way we had before he made all his millions.'

After one month of counseling, Elon filed for divorce. As of 2010 when the essay was written, Justine said she and Elon were 'estranged,' but that she did not regret their relationship.

'Although I am estranged from Elon - when it comes to the children, I deal with his assistant - I don't regret my marriage,' she wrote. 'I've worked through some anger, both at Elon for rendering me so disposable, and at myself for buying into a fairy tale when I should have known better.

'But I will always respect the brilliant and visionary person that he is. I also can't regret the divorce (our case was bifurcated, which means that even though the property issues aren't settled, our marriage is legally dead). Elon and I share custody of the children, who are thriving. I feel grounded now, and deeply grateful for my life.'

Their five children have largely managed to remain out of the spotlight, although it was revealed in 2018 that all of boys were being educated at a radical, ultra-exclusive school set up by the Tesla founder at his SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. 

The 'experimental' school, which is called Ad Astra, meaning 'to the stars' in Latin, was set up in 2014. As of 2018, it was being attended by a very small, select group of students, including Elon's five sons and the offspring of several SpaceX employees.

Following his split from Justine, Elon began dating British star Talulah Riley, who is most known for her roles in Pride & Prejudice, St. Trinian's, Fritton's Gold, The Boat That Rocked, Inception, Westworld, and Bloodshot.

It was said that they met at a bar in London, with Ashlee Vance writing in her book Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future that they 'hit it off immediately.'

'I remember thinking that this guy probably didn’t get to talk to young actresses a lot and that he seemed quite nervous,' Talulah said of the night they met.

'I decided to be really nice to him and give him a nice evening. Little did I know that he’d spoken to a lot of pretty girls in his life.'

Talulah, now 37 first tied the knot with the Tesla architect in 2010.

However, their first marriage ended in 2012, when she reportedly walked away with $16 million as part of a divorce settlement.

'It was an amazing four years. I will love you forever. You will make someone very happy one day,' he tweeted at the time. 

By the following summer, they had remarried. But then, in December 2014, she filed for divorce a second time, only to withdraw her lawsuit the following year. 

In March 2016, Talulah requested a divorce a third time, and the pair split for good; the couple did not have any children together. 

Elon told Forbes at the time, 'We took some time apart for several months to see if absence makes the heart grow fonder, and unfortunately it did not.

'I still love her, but I’m not in love with her. And I can’t really give her what she wants.'

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