Tech billionaire Elon Musk slammed Canadian singer Grimes with a toddler custody lawsuit after she allegedly fled from Texas and by no means returned, RadarOnline.com can solely reveal.
The startling confession was laid naked in an eight-page declaration the Area X founder filed final month within the bare-knuckle little one custody Travis County Household Court docket brawl the place particulars about Musk’s super-secret way of life are being uncovered.
Court docket paperwork revealed the connection between Musk and Grimes, the mom of his three kids, ages 3 to three months, apparently deteriorated in early 2023 – roughly one 12 months after the Tesla CEO moved the majority of his enterprise empire to Austin.
Musk hinted that Grimes, whose actual title is Claire Boucher, is trying to have their custody dispute heard in California and never Texas — based mostly on the opinion of her associates.
“At numerous occasions throughout the previous 12 months, when there was a battle in our relationship [Grimes] instructed me that her associates had been warning her that California could be a greater court docket jurisdiction for her than Texas, if she ever wanted to litigate,” Musk wrote within the declaration he signed on November 28, 2023.
Issues went south after they returned from a visit to Tokyo, Japan, in response to Musk.
“We returned collectively to Austin on August 20, 2023,” Musk wrote. “[Redacted] stayed with us on the [Redated] home for a number of days then flew again to California on a business flight on August 23, 2023. [The two younger children] haven’t been again in Texas since July 24, 2023. [The oldest child] stays in Texas with me.”
“Once I realized that [Grimes] was not returning to Texas with the youthful kids, I employed counsel and filed the Texas parentage motion on September 7, 2023.”
As RadarOnline.com beforehand reported, Grimes accused Musk of allegedly taking their oldest son to Texas with out her consent and utilizing a staff of burly safety guards to observe her each transfer throughout their relationship.
“Whereas mom was in Texas, nevertheless, [the] father and his safety staff managed practically each facet of mom’s life,” Grimes said in her personal authorized transient to explain the suffocating circumstances. “They dominated and sought to wrongfully management her and the kids’s lives to the extent it was detrimental to the mom’s and the kids’s well-being to stay in Texas.”
The crux of the authorized scrum facilities round which state has jurisdiction over the kids’s lives.
Musk desires the custody case decided in Texas the place he claims the kids have lived, including {that a} San Antonio court docket validated the couple’s parental rights because the oldest little one was born by way of in-vitro fertilization and the 2 youngest by way of surrogates.
“Within the absence of a brief settlement [Musk] requests that the Court docket order [Grimes] to return [the children] to Travis County, Texas, inside 24 hours of the Court docket’s ruling, and order that they reside in Travis County, Texas with [Musk] throughout the pendency of this case.”
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Grimes in the meantime argued the custody challenge needs to be decided in California the place the 2 youngest kids have lived since July and the oldest was allegedly taken to Texas with out her consent.
Grimes accused Musk of enjoying quick and free with the reality when he claimed that the kids lived in Texas for six consecutive months earlier than September 7 when he filed the petition.
“Thus, the related query is whether or not the kids had been bodily positioned in Texas for six consecutive months,” Grimes’ famend lawyer Becky Beaver wrote in court docket paperwork filed final month. “They weren’t, and father can not meet his burden to indicate in any other case.”
“Father conclusory assertion that as of that date he ‘had precise care, management, and possession of every little one in Travis County, Texas at the very least six consecutive months’ is demonstrably false.”