--- title: "Grimes Says That Elon Musk “Lives Below the Poverty Line”" description: "In a wild interview with Vanity Fair this week, alt-pop star Claire \"Grimes\" Boucher said that ex-boyfriend Elon Musk \"lives below the poverty line.\"" date: "2022-03-11" modified: "2022-03-11" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/grimes-elon-musk-poverty-line" categories: - "Elon Musk" - "Future Society" - "The Industrialists" tags: - "elon musk" - "grimes" - "the digest" --- # Grimes Says That Elon Musk “Lives Below the Poverty Line” ![In a wild interview with Vanity Fair this week, alt-pop star Claire "Grimes" Boucher said that ex-boyfriend Elon Musk "lives below the poverty line."]() *\Image: Getty Images/Futurism\* ## Grimy Living Conditions In a [wild interview]() with *Vanity Fair* this week*,* gothy producer superstar Claire "Grimes" Boucher spilled the tea on what it was like living with now [ex-boyfriend Elon Musk](). "Bro does *not* live like a billionaire," she told the magazine. "Bro lives at times below the poverty line." Things go to so bad that Grimes pleaded with Musk to "*not* live in a very insecure $40,000 house" where the "neighbors, like, film us" and she's "eating peanut butter for eight days in a row." Grimes also told *Vanity Fair* that Musk "wouldn't even get a new mattress" while living in Los Angeles — even though the old one had a hole in it. It's a rather shocking revelation, considering Musk is officially the [richest person in the world](). We also knew he lives a pared down and relatively humble lifestyle, [reportedly living]() in a tiny pre-fabricated shack near SpaceX's test site in Texas. But *this* humble? ## On-Again, Off-Again The interview also shed light on another tantalizing piece of news: that she [had a second child]() with Musk with the help of a surrogate late last year, a daughter who they named "[Exa Dark Sideræl Musk]()." Their on-again, off-again relationship has clearly hit a speedbump around the time of the revelation and the ensuing [media circus](). "Me and E have broken up \*again\* since the writing of this article haha," she [tweeted]() shortly after the interview was published on Thursday, "but he’s my best friend and the love of my life." And then, of course, it [turned out]() that Grimes is now dating famed military leaker Chelsea Manning. All Grimes was aiming to do with the interview was to build up hype for her upcoming album "Book 1." But rare insights into her life with Musk proved to be far too distracting. **READ MORE:** [“Infamy Is Kind Of Fun”: Grimes on Music, Mars, and Her Secret New Baby With Elon Musk]() \[*Vanity Fair*\] **More on the interview:** *[A Reporter Heard an Infant Screaming and It Turned Out Elon Musk Had a Secret Baby with Grimes]()* ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()