Is Elon Musk married?
08/05/25 9:54pm
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Elon Musk is not currently married, though he has two ex-wives. He was married to author Justine Wilson from 2000 until they divorced in 2008. They had six children together (one of whom died at only 10 weeks old of sudden infant death syndrome). During divorce proceedings, Wilson asked Musk for their house, child support, 5% of his SpaceX shares, 10% of his Tesla shares, $6 million, and a Tesla Roadster; if she'd gotten all of this, she'd be worth $17.3 billion today. But because Wilson signed a postnuptial agreement, she only got $20 million after the divorce.
Musk married actress Talulah Riley in 2010. They divorced in 2012, and Riley walked away with a $4.2 million settlement; the pair remarried in 2013, and then divorced again in 2016, after which Riley received a $16 million settlement.
Aside from Wilson and Riley, Musk has had many other long-term partnerships with people he didn't legally marry, including with Jennifer Gwynne, a classmate at the University of Pennsylvania, whom he dated for about a year in the mid-1990s, and Amber Heard, whom he was officially linked to from April to August 2017 (though the exact relationship timeline is fuzzy).
Notably, Musk was involved with musician Claire Boucher (aka Grimes) beginning in 2018; the two had an on-again-off-again relationship for several years. It's unclear exactly when they finally stopped being romantically involved, but they have three children together. In October 2023, the two became engaged in a grueling custody battle, which they settled in November 2024, though the details of the custody arrangement remain private.
Musk also had twins with Shivon Zilis, an executive at his company Neuralink, in 2021, though the two parents claim they were never romantically involved and had children to "help the underpopulation crisis." Musk and Zilis went on to have a third child in February 2024, and a fourth in either late 2024 or early 2025.
In February 2025, conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair claimed on Twitter/X that Musk was the father of her baby born in September 2024. St. Clair went on to sue Musk for sole custody and to legally establish paternity. Musk took a court-ordered paternity test in April 2025, which revealed he was 99.9999% likely to be the child's father.
In case you weren't counting, that's a total of 14 children, and sources close to Musk believe the real number of Musk's children is much higher than that. Musk, a pronatalist, refers to his brood as a "legion." He reportedly tries to recruit women to have his children via social media, and he has a history of trying to keep his paternity status under wraps: before taking a paternity test, Musk offered St. Clair $15 million and $100,000 a month in exchange for her silence, and according to Jared Birchall, CEO of Neuralink, there have been similar agreements made with other mothers of Musk's children. After St. Clair went public, Musk pulled his offer.
In February 2025, Grimes took to Twitter/X to implore Musk to "respond about our child's medical crisis.... This requires immediate attention." She went on to say, "[H]e won't respond to texts call or emails and has skipped every meeting and our child will suffer life long impairment if he doesn't respond asap." The details of the medical crisis she refers to are unclear, and it's also unclear if Musk ever reached out. If he did, he didn't do so publicly.
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Musk married actress Talulah Riley in 2010. They divorced in 2012, and Riley walked away with a $4.2 million settlement; the pair remarried in 2013, and then divorced again in 2016, after which Riley received a $16 million settlement.
Aside from Wilson and Riley, Musk has had many other long-term partnerships with people he didn't legally marry, including with Jennifer Gwynne, a classmate at the University of Pennsylvania, whom he dated for about a year in the mid-1990s, and Amber Heard, whom he was officially linked to from April to August 2017 (though the exact relationship timeline is fuzzy).
Notably, Musk was involved with musician Claire Boucher (aka Grimes) beginning in 2018; the two had an on-again-off-again relationship for several years. It's unclear exactly when they finally stopped being romantically involved, but they have three children together. In October 2023, the two became engaged in a grueling custody battle, which they settled in November 2024, though the details of the custody arrangement remain private.
Musk also had twins with Shivon Zilis, an executive at his company Neuralink, in 2021, though the two parents claim they were never romantically involved and had children to "help the underpopulation crisis." Musk and Zilis went on to have a third child in February 2024, and a fourth in either late 2024 or early 2025.
In February 2025, conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair claimed on Twitter/X that Musk was the father of her baby born in September 2024. St. Clair went on to sue Musk for sole custody and to legally establish paternity. Musk took a court-ordered paternity test in April 2025, which revealed he was 99.9999% likely to be the child's father.
In case you weren't counting, that's a total of 14 children, and sources close to Musk believe the real number of Musk's children is much higher than that. Musk, a pronatalist, refers to his brood as a "legion." He reportedly tries to recruit women to have his children via social media, and he has a history of trying to keep his paternity status under wraps: before taking a paternity test, Musk offered St. Clair $15 million and $100,000 a month in exchange for her silence, and according to Jared Birchall, CEO of Neuralink, there have been similar agreements made with other mothers of Musk's children. After St. Clair went public, Musk pulled his offer.
In February 2025, Grimes took to Twitter/X to implore Musk to "respond about our child's medical crisis.... This requires immediate attention." She went on to say, "[H]e won't respond to texts call or emails and has skipped every meeting and our child will suffer life long impairment if he doesn't respond asap." The details of the medical crisis she refers to are unclear, and it's also unclear if Musk ever reached out. If he did, he didn't do so publicly.
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