The mother of indie electro-pop musician Grimes took to X this weekend to plead with Elon Musk, the platform’s owner and father to her three grandchildren, to stop withholding his and Grimes’ kids from Grimes so that the kids can visit their dying nonagenarian great-grandmother in Canada.
Grimes, 36, whose real name is Claire Boucher, filed a suit for parental rights against Musk in September in the Superior Court of California. Grimes also suggested in since-deleted posts around then that Musk was withholding one of her sons from her, her mother Sandy Garossino wrote on Saturday on X, stating that reaching out to Musk on his platform was her last resort after all other avenues were exhausted.
“Dear Elon @elonmusk It was nice seeing you on Father’s Day. I hope you got the card that I helped X make. He was so proud of it. I’m writing here as the only way I have to reach you,” Garossino wrote. “As you know, my 93-year-old mother is now at end-of-life palliative care. She yearns to see and hold Claire’s children one last time. Especially the youngest, whom she has not yet met.”
While Grimes and Musk dated on and off for years, they had three children together — 4-year-old X Æ A-Xii, also known as X; 2-year-old Exa Dark Sideræl, aka Y; and Techno Mechanicus, aka Tau, who is 2 years old.
Garossino continued of her mother, “She was thrilled for the kids’ planned visit to celebrate her birthday this weekend. Today. But those hopes were crushed when the trip was canceled.
