Maye Musk was born in Saskatchewan, Canada, and emigrated with her parents to Pretoria, South Africa, in 1950 when she was seven years old. She and Elon’s father, Errol Musk, split in 1979. After Elon moved to Canada at age 17, Maye obtained Canadian citizenship by birthright. 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 had 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, Errol Musk, is an engineer and, like Elon, was born in South Africa. Though Errol said in a 2015 Forbes interview that he often took 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 four 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 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.”

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Elon Musk and Justine Musk, 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 revealed that while dancing at their wedding reception, Elon told her, “I am the alpha in this marriage.”

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

The couple faced an unthinkable tragedy when their baby boy, Nevada Alexander, died at 10 weeks in 2002 from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). “Nevada went down for a nap, placed on his back as always,” Justine wrote in her article, “and stopped breathing.”

In 2008, Elon filed for divorce.

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Also in 2022, Griffin Musk’s twin sister filed a petition to change her full name in accordance with her new gender identity. She wrote, “I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form.”

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, whom he referred to by her birth name, was “dead, killed by the woke mind virus.” She disputed his comments.

She moved to Japan and hasn’t spoken to her father since 2020. “He’s a pathetic man-child,” she surmised. “Why should I be scared of this man? Because he’s rich? I don’t give a f–k how much money anyone has.”

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Elon and singer Grimes dated on and off for four years, starting in 2018. In September 2021, Elon told Page Six, “We 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, Grimes 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 actually had three children together, the “Crystal Ball” singer confirmed that their most recent addition, Techno Mechanicus, had joined son X Æ A-12 and daughter Exa Dark Sideræl.

In November 2024, Grimes revealed 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.”

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Grimes also shared the meaning behind her daughter Exa’s unique name. “Exa is a reference to the supercomputing term exaFLOPS (the ability to perform 1 quintillion floating-point operations per second),” she explained. “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 Grimes, “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.”

A photo dated June 2022 shows Elon feeding the baby boy. Though Grimes would prefer other salient details remain private. “I have tried begging the public and my kids’ dad to keep them offline, and I’ve tried legal recourse,” she shared on social media in 2025. “The state of my children’s lives being public is of grave concern to me and I think about how to solve this every day. It’s insane to me that there’s no way to deal with this.”

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In 2022, *Business Insider* published court documents stating that Elon welcomed twins with Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis in November 2021. 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 the 2023 biography *Elon Musk*, it was revealed the twins’ full names are Strider Sekhar Sirius and Azure Astra Alice. Elon later shared that Strider’s moniker was inspired by the nickname of *Lord of the Rings* character Aragorn and the late physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. Meanwhile, Azure was named after a spell from the video game *Elden Ring*.

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On Valentine’s Day 2025, conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair had a public revelation to share. “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 (formerly Twitter) February 14, naming her son Romulus in honor of Rome’s legendary first king and founder.

“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.”

“I intend to allow our child to grow in a normal and safe environment,” she continued. “For that reason, I ask that the media honor our child’s privacy and refrain from invasive reporting.”

Weeks after her representative called on Elon to “publicly acknowledge his parental role with Ashley,” she accused him of cutting child support payments for the baby, prompting him to address the matter on social media.

“I don’t know if the child is mine or not, but am not against finding out,” he wrote on X on March 31, adding, “Despite not knowing for sure, I have given Ashley $2.5 million and am sending her $500k/year.”

An April *Wall Street Journal* article alleged that Elon’s staffer Jared Birchall offered Ashley $15 million and $100,000 a month in child support in exchange for her silence about her baby. However, Ashley said she told him, “I don’t want my son to feel like he’s a secret.”
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