Musician Grimes, aged 35, has filed a lawsuit against her former partner Elon Musk, aged 52, regarding the parental rights of their three children.
This action comes not long after she implored Musk to allow her to see their toddler son and disclosed that she hasn’t even been permitted to see a photo of their children.
Grimes, whose real name is Claire Boucher, submitted a “petition to establish parental relationship” on September 29 in a California court.
Grimes with son X in July
The petition for parental rights is a legal process for determining a child’s legal parents when the parents are not married.
The Canadian singer, aged 35, has not yet requested child support or custody rights.
Weeks earlier, in a now-deleted tweet to Shivon Zilis, who gave birth to Elon Musk’s twins through IVF, Grimes said: “Tell Shivon to unblock me and tell Elon to let me see my son or plz respond to my lawyer.
“I have never even been allowed to see a photo of these children until this moment, despite the situation utterly ripping my family apart.”
Zilis is an executive at Musk’s Neuralink company. She gave birth to Musk’s twins last November according to court documents but has not publicly said the two are romantically involved.
Grimes and Musk began dating in 2018 and share three children together. Their firstborn son, named X Æ A-Xii, was born in May 2020.
Their only daughter, Exa Dark Sideræl, nicknamed Y, was welcomed via surrogate in December 2021, the same year the couple split.
