--- title: "Grimes Says Elon Musk’s Brutal Custody Battle Was Driving Her to Bankruptcy" description: "Elon Musk's most famous babymama, Claire \"Grimes\" Boucher, is once again speaking out about her difficult relationship with the billionaire." date: "2024-11-22" modified: "2024-11-22" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/grimes-elon-musk-custody-bankruptcy" categories: - "Elon Musk" - "Future Society" - "The Industrialists" tags: - "children" - "elon musk" - "grimes" - "the digest" --- # Grimes Says Elon Musk’s Brutal Custody Battle Was Driving Her to Bankruptcy ![Elon Musk's most famous babymama, Claire "Grimes" Boucher, is once again speaking out about her difficult relationship with the billionaire.]() *\Image: Matt Winkelmeyer via Getty for Coachella\* ## Break the Bank Elon Musk's most famous baby mama is once again speaking out about her difficult relationship with the billionaire. Claire "Grimes" Boucher, mother to three of [Musk's 12 known children](), wrote in a [post on X-formerly-Twitter]() that her tumultuous custody battle with the 53-year-old nearly bankrupted her — the implication being that he basically wore her down until she acquiesced to at least some of his demands. Responding to someone who asked about her new projects and her fight for custody of the[ three children she shares with Musk](), four-year-old X Æ A-12 and two-year-olds Exa and Tau, the 36-year-old Canadian artist got very real. "The threat of losing \[your\] kids while going bankrupt fighting for them is not very conducive to creative thoughts," Boucher wrote. "I just slept and cried every minute I wasn't explicitly fighting for my kids during that year." ## Game Unrecognize Game These tweeted comments came just a few minutes after [another lengthy missive]() in which the "[Oblivion]()" singer remarked about her financial situation, called Musk "the love of my life," and said he was now "[unrecognizable]()" to her. "\[I\] spent a year locked in battle in a state with terrible mothers rights having my instagram posts and modeling used as reasons I shouldn't have my kids and fighting and detaching from the love of my life as he becomes unrecognizable to me," [she wrote]() in the stream-of-consciousness post, "with a fraction of his resources (or iq/ strategy experience), all the while I didn't see one of my babies for 5 months." "And this is only what can be said publicly," Grimes continued, "since most of my experience these last years should remain behind closed doors." ## Open and Shut Shortly after those admissions, [*Business Insider* reported]() that a court official confirmed that the custody case between Musk and Boucher had officially been closed. The court clerk in Travis County, where Boucher sued Musk for custody of all three of their children [more than a year ago](), declined to provide *BI* any more details about the case. Strangely, Grimes' posts about Musk and their custody battle also come weeks after an [alleged insider told *People*]() that she was house-shopping with her billionaire ex in Bel Air as he seeks to [build a compound]() of sorts for all of his under-18 children and their mothers. It remains unclear, however, if [Boucher plans to join](). **More on Musk's family:** [*Elon Musk’s Daughter Vivian Says He’s a "Delusional and Grubby Little Control Freak"*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()