Grimes’ mother claims Elon Musk is ‘pushing’ their children away from family – National
The musician’s mother Grimes accused Elon Musk of “holding back” his three grandchildren and preventing them from visiting their dying great-grandmother in Canada.
Sandy Garossino posted her appeal on X, the social networking site owned by Musk, on Saturday and said she had no other way to contact the billionaire.
Garossino, a columnist for the National Observer, said her 93-year-old mother is in hospice care and “longs to see and hold Claire’s children one last time.”
Grimes (real name Claire Elise Boucher) shares three children with Musk, four-year-old X Æ A-Xii (known as X), two-year-old Exa Dark Sideræl, and Techno (Tau) Mechanicus.
The couple, who dated on and off for many years, are currently are fighting for legal custody of their childrenGrimes told the court last year that Musk would not give her access to any of their children.
Garossino began his chat with Musk by saying it was “nice” to see him on Father’s Day in June.
“I hope you got the card I helped X make. He was so proud of it,” she wrote.
Garossino said her ailing mother, who has yet to meet the youngest of Grimes’ three children, was “thrilled about the children’s planned visit to celebrate her birthday” Saturday.
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According to Garossino, the trip was cancelled and his mother’s hopes of seeing her great-grandchildren again were “dashed”.
“I am alarmed to learn that the children are unable to come because you are refusing to hand them over to Claire, along with the necessary passport documents,” Garossino continued. “It was even more disturbing to see you and X on television at the Paris Olympics yesterday, after your trip to Washington DC earlier in the week.”
Garossino asked where the other two children were during the visit to Paris and who was watching them.
“They were supposed to be with their mother,” she wrote. “They were expected here in Canada.”
“I am writing to ask you, as a grandmother, to honor your agreement, return the children and provide them with the documents they need to see their great-grandmother before she passes away,” she said. “Some moments in life last forever and we don’t get a second chance. Family is priceless.”
Garossino ended the discussion by begging Musk to bring the children to Canada.
“It is very painful for my mother and worrying for the children. Time is now running out,” she concluded.
Musk has not responded to Garossino on X and has not publicly commented on the situation.
Grimes was born and raised in Vancouver and is best known for her experimental electropop music, including popular songs Genesis And 4ÆM.
Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has 12 known childrenThe birth of her 12th child, her third with Neuralink Corp. CEO Shivon Zilis, was revealed in June.
He also had six children with Canadian author Justine Wilson, to whom he was married from 2000 to 2008. Musk’s first child, Nevada, died sudden infant death syndrome (SMSN) in 2002 when he was only 10 weeks old.
Musk and Wilson had twins, named Griffin and Vivian, born in 2004. Two years later, the couple had triplets, Kai, Saxon and Damian.
News of the tensions between Musk and Grimes’ family comes about a week after Musk’s daughter, Vivian, who is transgender, said Musk was an absent father who I harassed her because she was gay and exhibiting feminine traits as a child. Vivian spoke to the press after Elon Musk claimed on social media that Vivian was “not a girl” and was figuratively “dead” because she had been “killed by the waking mind virus.”
On Thursday, Grimes expressed her support for Vivian on X, writing, “I love and am forever proud of Vivian.”
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