Elon Musk had secretly filed a lawsuit against ex Grimes over the parental rights of their three children a MONTH before he decided to sue.
- Elon Musk secretly sued his ex Grimes for the rights of their three children last month
- Musk claims he has ‘real care, control and possession’ since birth
Elon Musk had secretly filed a lawsuit over the parental rights of his three children with his musician ex Grimes a month before she sued the billionaire.
Last month, Musk filed a motion in Texas for sole custody of X Æ A-Xii, 3, and Tau Techno Mechanicus, 1, and daughter Exa Dark Sideræl, also 1, says the folder.
Musk claims in the filing that he has had “actual care, control and possession of each child since each child’s birth.”
He also noted in the filing that the care took place in Texas, where he resides full-time for at least “six consecutive months.”
This comes after court documents revealed that Grimes, real name Claire Boucher, filed a petition to establish a parental relationship on September 29 in a California court.
Elon Musk had secretly filed a lawsuit over the parental rights of his three children with his musician ex Grimes a month before she sued the billionaire.
Musk’s son, X Æ A-Xii (pictured with his father during a meeting with Hungarian President Katalin Novák last month), whom the couple calls X, is at the center of the custody proceedings.
The petition is a way to identify the legal parents of a child when they are not married. The file was accessible to the public but its documents were sealed.
But it now appears that Tesla co-founder Musk propelled her to the position by filing a similar petition on September 7.
In the document, he accuses the mother of his three children of moving to escape the Texas courts.
He said Grimes resided and their children resided with him in Texas between May and July of this year and indicated his three children resided in Travis County.
He added in his filings that he anticipated they would resolve the custody issue with a “written agreement” but wanted the Texas courts to intervene if necessary.
He also requested that the courts order the parties to “attend mediation before the final trial.”
Much of the court document was redacted, with Musk and Grimes identified only by the initials R and E respectively.
Musk’s lawyers argued that the family’s “health, safety, or liberty” would be harmed by disclosing identifying information.
The Canadian singer filed her petition just weeks after publicly begging Tesla co-founder Musk to let her see her son.
Grimes (pictured with her son X in Portofino) filed her own petition in San Francisco two weeks after Musk filed his in Texas.
The couple’s three children, including their daughter Exa Dark Sideræl (photo), are at the center of a custody case.
In a now-deleted post on the billionaire’s X platform, formerly Twitter, Grimes addressed Shivon Zilis, an executive at Musk’s Neuralink company and the mother of his twins.
She said: “Tell Shivon to unblock me and tell Elon to let me see my son or please answer my lawyer.”
“I have never been allowed to see a photo of these children until now, despite the situation which is completely tearing my family apart.”
Grimes’ petition included a “standard restraining order” that would protect her children from being deported from California.
His three children with the tech billionaire bring the number of children he has fathered to 11.
He has twins Strider and Azure with Zilis, as well as five children with his first wife Justine Wilson. The couple’s firstborn, a son named Nevada, died at just 10 weeks old from sudden infant death syndrome.
