The mother of musician Grimes has accused Elon Musk of “locking out” her three grandchildren and preventing them from visiting their dying great-grandmother in Canada.
Sandy Garosino posted an appeal on Musk’s social networking site X on Saturday, claiming she had no other way to contact the billionaire.
Garosino, a columnist for the National Observer, said her 93-year-old mother is in a palliative care facility and “wants to see and hug Claire’s children one last time.”
Grimes (real name Claire Elise Boucher) has three children with Musk: four-year-old X Æ A-Xii (aka X), two-year-old Exa Dark Sideral, and Techno (Tau) Mechanicus.
The couple, who have dated on and off for years, are currently fighting over legal custody of their children, with Grimes telling a court last year that Musk would not give her access to one of their children.
Garosino started the thread by saying it was “great” meeting Musk on Father’s Day in June.
“I wish I could get the card I helped X make. He would be so proud,” she wrote.
Garosino said the ailing mother, who has yet to meet the youngest of Grimes’ three children, was “delighted” Saturday by the children’s plans to visit to celebrate her birthday.
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According to Garosino, the trip was canceled and her mother’s hopes of seeing her great-grandchildren were “crushed.”
“I was shocked to learn that you were holding back Claire’s passports and the kids, so they couldn’t come,” Garosino continued. “After visiting DC earlier this week, I was even more concerned when I saw you and X on TV at the Paris Olympics yesterday.”
Garosino asked where the other two children had been during their visit to Paris and who was watching them.
“They are going to be with their mother,” she wrote. “They were expected to be in Canada.”
“I am writing to you at the request of my grandmother. Please respect her consent, return the children, and provide the necessary documents so that I can see my grandmother before she passes away,” she wrote. “Some moments in life last forever, and there are no second chances. Family is precious.”
Garosino ended the thread by imploring Musk to bring the children to Canada.
“This is very painful for my mother and worrying for my children. Time is of the essence right now,” she concluded.
Musk has not responded to Garosino via X and has not commented publicly 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, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has 12 known children. The birth of his 12th child, his third with Neuralink Corp. executive Shivon Zilis, was announced in June.
He also has six children with Canadian writer Justin Wilson, to whom he was married from 2000 to 2008. Musk’s first child, Nevada, died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) in 2002 at just 10 weeks old.
Musk and Wilson had twins named Griffin and Vivienne in 2004. Two years later, the couple had triplets named Kai, Saxon, and Damien.
The news of tensions between Musk and Grimes’ family comes about a week after Musk’s daughter Vivienne, who is transgender, said Musk was an absent father who bullied her as a child for being queer and presenting as a woman. Vivienne spoke to the press after Musk said on social media that Vivienne was “not a girl” and was metaphorically “dead.” She was “murdered by a woke mind virus.”
On Thursday, Grimes expressed her support for Vivian on X, writing, “I love Vivian and am forever proud of you.”
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