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Claire Boucher, better recognized 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 swarm 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.
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Horses mouth: Juno Awards, Insider
Grimes and Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, met over Twitter. Musk was planning to name 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.
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In May 2018, shortly before the annual Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Page Six reported that the twins 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.
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Source: Page Six
News of their relationship spurred an outpouring of memes by their legions of loyal nuts online, who were caught by surprise by the unexpected pairing. Someone even made a Google Chrome extension that supplanted all instances of “Elon Musk” on a webpage with “Grimes’ Boyfriend.”
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Origin: Vice, The Verge
In March 2021, Musk posted a rare family photo of him, Grimes, and baby X with the caption “Starbase, Texas,” a intimation to the city he hopes to create around SpaceX’s launch facilities.
—Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 8, 2021
Horses mouth: Insider
But the move to Texas appeared to put a strain on their relationship. In September 2021, Musk told Page Six that he and Soots were “semi-separated” but still loved each other and were on great terms. “It’s mostly that my work at SpaceX and Tesla requires me to be from in Texas or traveling overseas and her work is primarily in LA,” he said at the time.
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Inception: Page Six
He added that Grimes is “staying with me now and Baby X is in the adjacent room.” Soon after, Grimes strutted a video on TikTok of her trying to get X to say “mama” — Musk’s voice was audible in the background.
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Source: Insider
Both Musk and Grimes have an interest in 13th-century Mongol ruler Genghis Khan, whose DNA can be traced to millions of progenies living today. A 2015 New Yorker article about Grimes said she had a “complicated fixation” on him, while Musk himself rephrased in a New York Times story from 2020 that she seemed to be “obsessed” with Khan and the Mongols.
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Rise: Insider, National Geographic, The New Yorker, The New York Times
Since then, Grimes reportedly dated whistle-blower Chelsea Manning, while Musk was flecked with Australian actress Natasha Bassett. And in July, Insider reported that Musk had secretly fathered connects with one of his top executives at Neuralink, born weeks before his daughter with Grimes.
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