- Grimes was said to be upset upon learning about Elon Musk's twins with Shivon Zilis.
- The twins were born just weeks before he had his second child with Grimes.
Grimes was said to be less than happy to be out of the loop following the birth of Elon Musk's twins with an executive at his company Neuralink.
Grimes, whose real name is Claire Boucher, was "outraged" to learn about the children — Strider and Azure — at the same time as the public, Walter Isaacson writes in his coming biography of the billionaire, as reported by The Wall Street Journal. Musk's twins with the executive, Shivon Zilis, were born weeks before Musk and Grimes welcomed their second child via surrogate in December 2021.
The news of Musk's twins was first reported by Insider in July 2022.
Grimes responded to Isaacson's reporting in an X post Sunday, writing that she had recently talked to Zilis about the situation and describing the conversation as "long overdue."
"I truly apologize for responding to Walter like that," Grimes wrote. "As u can imagine, that was a very gut level reaction to a thing that has been very hard for me. Communication about the twins wasn't handled super well in the past, but I now totally understand what happened and totally forgive the situation."
Hey, I wud prefer to not breathe any more life into this current press cycle but I want to de-escalate the narrative atm.
— Grimes (@Grimezsz) September 10, 2023
I spoke with Shivon at length finally, which was long overdue. This wasn't her fault, plz don't be angry at her! We respect each other a lot and we're…
Isaacson's "Elon Musk," which intimately follows the past few years of the CEO's life, also revealed that Grimes and Musk had a third child, also via surrogate, in secret. Though the age of the child was not mentioned, their name was identified as Techno Mechanicus, or Tau for short.
Grimes also addressed Techno in her Sunday post, writing: "I wish I could show u how cute little Techno is, but my priority rn is keeping my babies out of the public eye, Plz respect that at this time."
Musk and Grimes also share a son, X Æ A-Xii Musk, or X, and a daughter, Exa Dark Sideræl Musk, who goes by Y. In total, Musk has had 11 known biological kids with three women.
The book, set to be released Tuesday, also revealed behind-the-scenes decisions regarding his Starlink satellite network during the war in Ukraine as well as Musk's thoughts on the generative-AI boom.
Representatives for Musk and Grimes didn't immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider.