Aside from being known as the richest man on earth (until recently); the man who bought Twitter; and the first person to ever lose US$200 billion, Elon Musk’s colourful dating life has also become a hot topic of discussion in recent years. Ever since his marriage to singer Grimes, and fathering twins with one of the top executives of his company, social media has been infatuated with his love life.
Elon has certainly had a complicated love life over the years (did you know that he has 10 kids in total)? Today, we’ll be spilling all the tea on the tech mogul’s dating history and the baby mommas of his 10 children!
Justine Wilson, 1998
Elon and Justine met at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada in the late 1990s. The story goes that Elon asked her out for ice cream, but as soon as she agreed to go out for ice cream, she changed her mind and left a note on the door of his dorm room explaining why she couldn’t go on the date. Later that evening, Elon showed up at her door with “two chocolate-chip ice cream cones dripping down his hands.” Who knew Elon was a romantic?
The pair got married in 2000, and turned to IVF to grow their family. Justine gave birth to twin sons Griffin and Xavier Musk in 2004. However, in 2022, Xavier, who now goes by Vivian Jenna Wilson, announced their name change, taking the last name of their mother in order to lose any association with the Tesla and SpaceX Founder. The couple also used IVF to welcome their triplet sons Kai, Saxon, and Damian in 2006. Though the pair tried to continue their relationship by attending couples counseling, they eventually filed for divorce in 2008.
Talulah Riley, 2008
Musk first met Talulah Riley, who is known for her role as Westworld’s gorgeous humanoid robot, in a London Bar in 2008. They hit it off right away, and their relationship progressed quickly. Two years after they first met, they got married. Sadly, the couple filed for divorce in 2012, two years later. Musk tweeted, “It was an amazing four years. I will love you forever. You will make someone very happy one day.” However, the divorce did not last long, and they got married again in July 2013 – before divorcing for good in 2016.
Amber Heard, 2016
The couple was first spotted spending time together in 2016, but they only went public with their relationship in 2017. During that time, both Heard and Musk were weathering public breakups, and all eyes were on them. They were only together for about a year, following his split from Riley and Heard’s from Johnny Depp.
It was reported that they had met on the set of the film Machete Kills back in 2013 and sparked up a friendship, before things became romantic three years later. Yet due to their demanding work schedules, the pair was not able to work it out. Elon explained in an Instagram comment, “Btw, just to clear up some of the press storms this weekend, although Amber and I did break up, we are still friends, remain close and love one another.”
Grimes, 2018
Just like a classic 21st Century meet-cute love story, Musk slid into Grimes’ DMs after she made a joke about artificial intelligence in 2018, and the two made their red carpet debut shortly after. There were reports of them splitting up and a very public feud with Azealia Banks in August 2018 before they reunited.
In January 2020, Grimes announced that she was pregnant, and welcomed their first child together in May of that year. And you know we gotta talk about the unusual names they’ve chosen for their kids, which made headlines when they first announced it. This is most likely due to the fact that no one could actually pronounce their baby’s name, X Æ A-12. However, they had to change the name to X AE A-XII to comply with Californian law. Though the couple split in September 2021, they welcomed their second baby, a daughter nicknamed Y, in December of that year.
Shivon Zilis, 2021
When news broke in 2021 that Elon Musk had fathered twins with one of his top executives at his startup, “Neauralink”, many people were surprised as no one saw it coming. According to reports, the twins were conceived through in vitro fertilisation. Shivn reportedly told colleagues that she and Musk were never engaged in any sexual relationship or were ever involved romantically in any way.
After news broke that he was having twins, Elon Musk tweeted: “Doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis. A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far.”
Natasha Bassett, Present
Natasha Bassett, the star of the 2022 Elvis biopic, was first spotted stepping off Elon Musk’s private jet and speeding away in a chauffeured Tesla earlier this year. According to sources, the couple has been “dating for several months and are in a monogamous relationship right now.” It’s rumoured that the couple had a long-running on and off relationship.
