Grimes Demands Elon Musk Shield Their Kids From Spotlight Amid Privacy Battle

Grimes is pleading for more privacy for her and Elon Musk‘s kids.

After being criticized over an X post attributed to her about the alleged sex lives of “many Fortune 500 CEOs,” the musician denied writing the “cringe AF” message while responding to a user who told her, “You have children. This is lame.”

Grimes stated on March 13 that she does not have control over the internet and cannot remove certain content from it. She has appealed to the public and her ex-partner to keep their children offline, and she has also attempted to use legal means to address the issue.

The 36-year-old individual, who has four children named X Æ A-Xii (aged 4), Exa Dark Sideræl (aged 3), and Techno Mechanicus (aged 2) with SpaceX CEO, expressed deep concern over their public lives. They ponder daily about finding a solution to this issue as they find it unsettling that there is no way to handle this situation. It strikes them as absurd.

Since parting ways in 2022 following four years together, the ex-couple has found themselves embroiled in a legal battle regarding their children since 2023 when Grimes initiated a court action to secure parental rights against the 53-year-old individual.

Grimes expressed her sentiment by saying, “I wish there was a rule enabling parents to shield young kids from leading public lives, but frankly, I don’t have faith in the legal system to assist me in such a situation right now.

TopMob News has reached out to Musk’s rep for comment about Grimes’ remarks and has not heard back.

The Tesla Motors CEO, a father of at least 13, has brought X to events more often in recent months, and he is the most photographed of his children.

Grimes made her latest comments one day before their eldest son was photographed being escorted by President Donald Trump, for whom Musk works as a senior advisor, into a Marine One aircraft at the White House.

In February, X participated in a press conference with Trump in the Oval Office and met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Blair House, the President’s guest house. The tech billionaire’s three-year-old twins, Azure and Strider, along with their mother Shivon Zilis, were also present at these events.

As a lifestyle expert, I would phrase it like this: “I want to emphasize that our eldest son should avoid public appearances at this time, as I wasn’t aware of his visit to the Oval Office. However, I’m delighted to hear he was polite during the encounter. A sigh of relief, though, as I appreciate your heads-up.

A little while later in February, Grimes made another public request. “I wish people would stop sharing pictures of my child all over the place,” she said during an interview with TIME magazine, which was published on the 25th of February. “I believe that fame should be something you agree to. Of course, things will happen as they will. But I would truly appreciate it if people could respect this request.

She added, “I can only ask, so I’m just asking.”

Read on to find out more about Musk’s family tree…

Maye was born in Saskatchewan, Canada and emigrated with her parents to Pretoria, South Africa in 1950, when she was 7. She and Elon’s father, Errol Musk, split in 1979.

After Elon moved to Canada at age 17, Maye obtained Canadian citizenship by birthright and moved there too. There, she established a dietician practice and became President of the Consulting Dieticians of Canada. She also worked as a model.

In 2019, after Elon sold his company Zip2 for more than $300 million, he bought his mom an apartment in New York City, where she lived for 13 years and continued her modeling career after being signed to the IMG Models agency.

“I brought my children up like my parents brought us up when we were young: to be independent, kind, honest, considerate and polite,” Maye wrote in an essay for CNBC. “I taught them the importance of working hard and doing good things.”

Elon’s father is an engineer and like Elon, was born in South Africa.

Though Errol said in a 2015 Forbes interview that he used to often take his kids on trips overseas—”Their mother and I split up when they were quite young and the kids stayed with me. I took them all over the world.”—his relationship with Elon isn’t picture perfect.

In an emotional 2017 Rolling Stone interview, Elon criticized his father and talked about his upbringing, saying that after his parents split, he moved in with his dad, which, he said, “was not a good idea.”

However, Errol told Rolling Stone, “I love my children and would readily do whatever for them.”

Following his divorce from Maye, Errol married Heide, whose daughter Jana Bezuidenhout was 4 years old at the time. Errol and Heide went on to have two daughters together before they, too, broke up.

Years later, Jana reached out to Errol following a breakup of her own. “We were lonely, lost people,” Errol explained in a 2018 interview with The Sunday Times. “One thing led to another—you can call it God’s plan or nature’s plan.”

Either way, the duo became romantic and welcomed son Elliott in 2017 and then a baby girl in 2019. As Errol put it to The Sun, “The only thing we are on Earth for is to reproduce. If I could have another child I would. I can’t see any reason not to.”

Kimbal, born in 1972, is a restauranteur and the founder of The Kitchen, a collective of five restaurants that source directly from local farmers. He also runs a non-profit, Big-Green, that has built 200 learning gardens in schools across the U.S., the outlet said.

Tosca, born in 1974, is a filmmaker. In 2017, she founded Passionflix, a female-focused streaming service that targets the billion-dollar romance novel industry.

Elon and Canadian-born Justine, his college sweetheart from Queen’s University in Ontario, married in 2000. In a 2010 article she penned for Marie Claire, titled I Was a Starter Wife: Inside America’s Messiest Divorce, Justine said that while dancing at their wedding reception, Elon told her, “I am the alpha in this marriage.”

“I shrugged it off,” Wilson wrote, “just as I would later shrug off signing the postnuptial agreement, but as time went on, I learned that he was serious.”

The two faced an unthinkable tragedy when their baby boy Nevada Alexander died at 10 weeks from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). “Nevada went down for a nap, placed on his back as always, and stopped breathing,” Justine wrote in her article.

The couple pursued IVF to conceive again and went on to welcome five more kids: Twins Vivian and Griffin and triplets Kai, Saxon and Damian.

In 2008, Elon filed for divorce.

In 2022, Elon shared that he took Griffin and the triplets to visit Pope Francis. Although Elon felt privileged to meet the leader of the Catholic Church, he jokingly commented on his attire, saying “My suit is a disaster.

In 2022, Griffin’s twin sister submitted a request to legally change her name to reflect her new gender identity, stating, “I no longer wish to be connected to my biological father in any capacity.

In July 2024, Elon spoke out about his daughter’s transition. “I lost my son, essentially,” he said in a Daily Wire interview with Jordan Peterson, adding that his child, who he referred to by her birth name, was “dead, killed by the woke mind virus.”

I, as a dedicated follower, asserted that I was deceived into consenting to undergo gender-affirming medical procedures.

She challenged his statements. In a statement to NBC News, she asserted, “He was absolutely not deceived in any way,” emphasizing that “he was fully aware of all potential consequences.

Elon and Talulah—who starred on HBO’s Westworld—married in 2010. “It all happened very fast,” she told CBS News. “We were engaged after, I think, two weeks of knowing each other.”

The two divorced in 2012, then remarried a year later before divorcing again in 2016. In June 2024, she wed Love Actually alum Thomas Brodie-Sangster.

Elon and Amber went public with their romance in early 2017, a year after she filed for divorce from Johnny Depp and Elon ended his (second) marriage to Talulah. Though their relationship didn’t last long.

“I just broke up with my girlfriend,” Elon told Rolling Stone at the time. “I was really in love, and it hurt bad…Well, she broke up with me more than I broke up with her, I think.”

Elon and the singer dated on-and-off for four years, starting in 2018. In September 2021, Elon told Page Six that he and Grimes “are, I’d say, probably semi-separated,” adding, “It’s mostly that my work at SpaceX and Tesla requires me to be primarily in Texas or traveling overseas and her work is primarily in LA. She’s staying with me now and Baby X is in the adjacent room.”

However, in March 2022, she told Vanity Fair that they “live in separate houses” and are “best friends.”

She later tweeted, “Me and E have broken up *again* since the writing of this article haha, but he’s my best friend and the love of my life, and my life and art are forever dedicated to The Mission now.”

When news broke in September 2023 that the couple had three children together, the “Crystal Ball” singer confirmed that, yes, their most recent addition Techno Mechanicus had joined son X Æ A-12 and daughter Exa Dark Sideræl.

In November 2024, Grimes revealed that she had “spent a year locked in battle in a state with terrible mothers rights having my instagram posts and modeling used as reasons I shouldn’t have my kids,” all the while, “fighting and detaching from the love of my life as he becomes unrecognizable to me.”

Fighting with just a “fraction” of his resources, she was kept from one of her kids for five months, she continued, adding, “This is only what can be said publicly, since most of my experience these last years should remain behind closed doors.”

In 2020, Elon and Grimes welcomed their first child together, a son. They soon modified the spelling of his name in order to meet California’s legal guidelines, which only permit letters from the English alphabet. Switching over to roman numerals, the parents agreed to spell his name, X Æ A-Xii.

“X, the unknown variable,” Grimes explained on Twitter. “Æ, my elven spelling of Ai (love &/or Artificial intelligence) A-12 = precursor to SR-17 (our favorite aircraft). No weapons, no defenses, just speed. Great in battle, but non-violent.”

Grimes continued, “A=Archangel, my favorite song” adding a rat and sword emoji. “Metal rat.”

In her 2022 Vanity Fair interview, Grimes revealed she and Elon privately welcomed a baby girl via surrogacy.

“Exa is a reference to the supercomputing term exaFLOPS (the ability to perform 1 quintillion floating-point operations per second),” she said. “Dark, meanwhile, is the unknown. People fear it but truly it’s the absence of photons. Dark matter is the beautiful mystery of our universe.'”

Sideræl—pronounced “sigh-deer-ee-el”—is, according to mom, “the true time of the universe, star time, deep space time, not our relative earth time,” and a nod to her favorite Lord of the Rings character, Galadriel, who “chooses to abdicate the ring.”

In my biographical account of Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson disclosed that Elon’s younger brother, Xandra, was delivered by a surrogate mother in the last month of 2021.

The book also stated that around Father’s Day 2022, the on-again, off-again couple welcomed a child named Techno Mechanicus, nicknamed Tau, also via surrogate. The biography includes a photo, dated June 2022, of Elon feeding the baby boy.

In 2022, Business Insider published court documents that stated Elon welcomed twins in November 2021 with Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis. The babies were born in Austin, Texas, where he lives.

He also seemingly weighed in on the report on X, writing, “Doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis. A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far.”

“Mark my words,” he added, “they are sadly true.”

In his 2023 biography titled ‘Elon Musk’, Walter Isaacson revealed that Elon Musk’s twins were named Strider Sekhar Sirius and Azure Astra Alice.

On February 28, 2024, Elon and Shivon became parents to their third child. Elon publicly confirmed the news in June 2024, telling Page Six, “Everyone close to us is aware,” implying that the lack of a press release does not indicate secrecy.

One year ago, Shivon tweeted, “Happy first birthday, dear Arcadia! Mommy loves you wholeheartedly.

On Valentine’s Day in the year 2025, conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair found herself with a bit of content to post.

“Five months ago, I welcomed a new baby into the world. Elon Musk is the father,” the Elephants Are Not Birds author wrote on X Feb. 14. “I have not previously disclosed this to protect our child’s privacy and safety, but in recent days it has become clear that the tabloid media intends to do so, regardless of the harm it will cause.”

She went on to say, “I plan to let our kid develop in a regular and secure setting. To ensure this, I kindly request that the media respect our child’s personal space, avoiding intrusive news coverage.

A day later, her rep gave a brief update. “Ashley & Elon have been privately working towards the creation of an agreement about raising their child for some time,” spokesperson Brian Glicklich wrote on X. “We are waiting for Elon to publicly acknowledge his parental role with Ashley, to end unwarranted speculation, and Ashley trusts that Elon intends to finish their agreement quickly, in the best interests of the wellbeing and security of the child they share.”

On February 28, 2025, they publicly announced the arrival of their fourth child, a baby boy named Seldon Lycurgus, in celebration of Arcadia’s first birthday that same day.

“Discussed with Elon and, in light of beautiful Arcadia’s birthday, we felt it was better to also just share directly about our wonderful and incredible son Seldon Lycurgus,” she wrote on X. “Built like a juggernaut, with a solid heart of gold. Love him so much.”

Elon responded with a heart emoji.

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