Elon Musk and Grimes’ break-up: they met on Twitter, stepped out at the Met Gala and had their baby X Æ A-XII – now they’re ‘semi-separated’ after 3 years

Sep 27 , 2021

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that he and musician Grimes are “semi-separated”. Photo: WireImage

While they were dating, Grimes defended the Tesla CEO on social media, and appeared during the Super Mario-themed Saturday Night Live sketch that he hosted

Grimes’ former friend Azealia Banks once compared an investor meeting at Musk’s house to the film Get Out – but was the couple’s move to Austin, Texas, the final straw?

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and the musician Grimes have broken up, Page Six reported. The couple had been dating since 2018, when they made their surprise debut at the annual Met Gala.

Here’s a timeline of their relationship, from weathering numerous ups and downs to having a baby together.

Claire Boucher, better known by her stage name Grimes, is a Canadian singer and producer. She’s also an outspoken advocate for female artists and their treatment by the press and music industry. She’s released multiple albums to critical acclaim, and her breakout album “Visions” won the Juno Award for Electronic Album of the Year.

Grimes and Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, met over Twitter. Musk was planning to make a joke about artificial intelligence and discovered she had beaten him to the punch via the Rococo Basilisk character from her Flesh Without Blood music video.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk gestures as he visits the construction site of Tesla’s Gigafactory in Gruenheide near Berlin, Germany, on August 13. Photo: Reuters

In May 2018, soon before the annual Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Page Six reported that the pair had been “quietly dating” for a few weeks. The report announced that the couple planned to attend the Met Gala together, and that they had been tweeting at each other for a few months.

Elon Musk and Grimes arrive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala (Met Gala) to celebrate the opening of “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” in the Manhattan borough of New York, US, in May 2018. Photo: Reuters

Grimes and Musk did end up attending the Met Gala together, which was their first official appearance as a couple. Musk later told The Wall Street Journal that he loves Grimes for her “wild fae artistic creativity and hyper intense work ethic”.