Musk’s Partner Reveals Sudden Breakup Just a Week After Saying “I Love You”

Separation from Zilis, Mother of Four Children
Zilis: “Parting without warning is difficult, but sometimes these things happen”

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, and Shivon Zilis, an executive at Neuralink, have publicly announced their separation.

Photo of Elon Musk (center), CEO of Tesla, with Sabon Zilis and children. Screenshot from X (formerly Twitter)

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On October 2 (local time), Zilis referenced a post on her X account (formerly Twitter) showing that Musk was no longer following her account, and wrote, “Having to separate from someone you are in love with, without any warning after just a week, is difficult, but sometimes these things happen.”

She continued, “I am happy that I was able to let Elon experience what it feels like to be deeply understood and loved with a sense of stability and warmth,” adding, “I hope I have left a lasting positive impact on him.” Zilis also stated, “I loved him more than my own life,” but expressed her hope to remain good friends and co-parents from now on.

Zilis also released a message exchanged with Musk on September 24, about a week earlier. The message included the words “I love you.” The specific reason for their breakup has not been disclosed.

Zilis was Musk’s partner and a longtime business associate. After working at Tesla, she served as a director at OpenAI and is currently an executive at Neuralink, a brain implant technology company. Until recently, she often accompanied Musk at major external events.

Through in vitro fertilization, they welcomed twins, Strider and Azure, in November 2021. Their third child, Akadia, was born in 2024, and the birth of their fourth child, Lycurgus, was reported last year. Lycurgus is also Musk’s fourteenth child. CEO Musk has not made any public comments regarding the breakup.

Meanwhile, in May of this year, Zilis testified in the OpenAI lawsuit as a person who helped mediate between the company’s founding members. When asked if she often discussed various alternatives regarding the early governance structure of OpenAI, she replied, “To the point that it was exhausting.” This contrasted with Musk’s assertion that OpenAI had deceived him and abandoned its nonprofit founding purpose.

Currently, Musk is known to have 14 children with four women, at least as far as publicly known. He has previously had public conflicts with the mothers of his children. He was involved in a legal dispute over custody with singer Grimes, with whom he has three children. Another child’s mother, Ashley St. Clair, claimed that Musk’s representatives had proposed a nondisclosure agreement worth 40 million dollars, which she rejected. His first wife, Justine Wilson, testified in director Alex Gibney’s documentary “Musk” that Musk referred to the women who bore his children as “breeders.”

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