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Maye was calved successful Saskatchewan, Canada and emigrated with her parents to Pretoria, South Africa successful 1950, erstwhile she was 7. She and Elon's father, Errol Musk, divided successful 1979.

After Elon moved to Canada astatine property 17, Maye obtained Canadian citizenship by birthright and moved determination too. There, she established a dietician signifier and became President of the Consulting Dieticians of Canada. She besides worked arsenic a model.

In 2019, aft Elon sold his institution Zip2 for much than $300 million, helium bought his ma an flat successful New York City, wherever she lived for 13 years and continued her modeling vocation aft being signed to the IMG Models agency.

"I brought my children up similar my parents brought america up erstwhile we were young: to beryllium independent, kind, honest, considerate and polite," Maye wrote in an essay for CNBC. "I taught them the value of moving hard and doing bully things."

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Elon's begetter is an technologist and similar Elon, was calved successful South Africa.

Though Errol said successful a 2015 Forbes interrogation that helium utilized to often instrumentality his kids connected trips overseas—"Their parent and I divided up erstwhile they were rather young and the kids stayed with me. I took them each implicit the world."—his narration with Elon isn't representation perfect.In an affectional 2017 Rolling Stone interview, Elon criticized his begetter and talked astir his upbringing, saying that aft his parents split, helium moved successful with his dad, which, helium said, "was not a bully idea."

However, Errol told Rolling Stone, "I emotion my children and would readily bash immoderate for them."

Following his divorcement from Maye, Errol joined Heide, whose daughter Jana Bezuidenhout was 4 years aged astatine the time. Errol and Heide went connected to have two daughters unneurotic before they, too, broke up. 

Years later, Jana reached retired to Errol pursuing a breakup of her own. "We were lonely, mislaid people," Errol explained in a 2018 interrogation with The Sunday Times. "One happening led to another—you tin telephone it God's program oregon nature's plan."

Either way, the duo became romanticist and welcomed lad Elliott successful 2017 and past a babe miss successful 2019. As Errol enactment it to The Sun, "The lone happening we are connected Earth for is to reproduce. If I could person different kid I would. I can't spot immoderate crushed not to."

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Kimbal, calved successful 1972, is simply a restauranteur and the laminitis of The Kitchen, a corporate of 5 restaurants that root straight from section farmers. He besides runs a non-profit, Big-Green, that has built 200 learning gardens successful schools crossed the U.S., the outlet said.

Tosca, calved successful 1974, is simply a filmmaker. In 2017, she founded Passionflix, a female-focused streaming work that targets the billion-dollar romance caller industry. 

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Elon and Canadian-born Justine, his assemblage sweetheart from Queen's University successful Ontario, joined successful 2000. In a 2010 nonfiction she penned for Marie Claire, titled I Was a Starter Wife: Inside America's Messiest Divorce, Justine said that portion dancing astatine their wedding reception, Elon told her, "I americium the alpha successful this marriage."

"I shrugged it off," Wilson wrote, "just arsenic I would aboriginal motion disconnected signing the postnuptial agreement, but arsenic clip went on, I learned that helium was serious."

The 2 faced an unthinkable calamity erstwhile their babe lad Nevada Alexander died astatine 10 weeks from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). "Nevada went down for a nap, placed connected his backmost arsenic always, and stopped breathing," Justine wrote successful her article.

The mates pursued IVF to conceive again and went connected to invited 5 much kids: Twins Vivian and Griffin and triplets Kai, Saxon and Damian. 

In 2008, Elon filed for divorce.

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Elon and Talulah—who starred connected HBO's Westworld—married successful 2010. "It each happened precise fast," she told CBS News. "We were engaged after, I think, 2 weeks of knowing each other."

The 2 divorced successful 2012, past remarried a twelvemonth aboriginal earlier divorcing again successful 2016. In June 2024, she wed Love Actually alum Thomas Brodie-Sangster.

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Elon and the vocalist dated on-and-off for 4 years, starting successful 2018. In September 2021, Elon told Page Six that helium and Grimes "are, I'd say, astir apt semi-separated," adding, "It's mostly that my enactment astatine SpaceX and Tesla requires maine to beryllium chiefly successful Texas oregon traveling overseas and her enactment is chiefly successful LA. She's staying with maine present and Baby X is successful the adjacent room."

However, successful March 2022, she told Vanity Fair that they "live successful abstracted houses" and are "best friends."

She aboriginal tweeted, "Me and E person breached up *again* since the penning of this nonfiction haha, but he's my champion person and the emotion of my life, and my beingness and creation are everlastingly dedicated to The Mission now." 

When quality broke successful September 2023 that the mates stock 3 children together, the "Crystal Ball" vocalist confirmed that, yes, their astir caller summation Techno Mechanicus had joined son X Æ A-12, 3, and daughter Exa Dark Sideræl.

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In 2020, Elon and Grimes welcomed their archetypal kid together, a son. They soon modified the spelling of his sanction successful bid to conscionable California's ineligible guidelines, which lone licence letters from the English alphabet. Switching implicit to roman numerals, the parents agreed to spell his name, X Æ A-Xii.

"X, the chartless variable," Grimes explained connected Twitter. "Æ, my elven spelling of Ai (love &/or Artificial intelligence) A-12 = precursor to SR-17 (our favourite aircraft). No weapons, nary defenses, conscionable speed. Great successful battle, but non-violent." 

Grimes continued, "A=Archangel, my favourite song" adding a rat and sword emoji. "Metal rat."

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

"Exa is simply a notation to the supercomputing word exaFLOPS (the quality to execute 1 quintillion floating-point operations per second)," she said. "Dark, meanwhile, is the unknown. People fearfulness it but genuinely it's the lack of photons. Dark substance is the beauteous enigma of our universe.'"

Sideræl—pronounced "sigh-deer-ee-el"—is, according to mom, "the existent clip of the universe, prima time, heavy abstraction time, not our comparative world time," and a motion to her favourite Lord of the Rings character, Galadriel, who "chooses to abdicate the ring."

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