Elon Musk's longtime love and baby mama Shivon Zilis has revealed the billionaire abruptly ended their relationship 'with no warning' - with the mom-of-four declaring 'it’s hard to go from in love to let go in a week.
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'Hurting' Zilis, an executive at Musk’s brain implant startup Neuralink, poured her heart out in a lengthy X post on Friday - just hours after eagle-eyed social media users noticed the billionaire had stopped following her on the platform he owns.
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I’ve loved him more than life itself and he’s taught me 100 lifetimes of knowledge and made my cup overflow with life meaning, so there is a lot of loss, but luckily we created four beautiful little loves of my life,' Zilis, 40, wrote on X.
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I am so beyond grateful for our children and they make every single day the best day of my life!
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I do hope and pray he and I can be great friends and coparents.
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'I feel happy that I got to show Elon how it feels to be deeply understood, nurtured, and peacefully loved with stability and gentleness,' she added.
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'I loved being that counterbalancing place of safety, sense of calm, and love — and delighted in bringing a smile back to his face when he was down.
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I will miss him dearly.
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'I’m hurting, but care deeply about E and will always be cheering for his happiness.
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God speed, Elon, the world is lucky to have you,' Zilis added.
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Elon Musk's longtime love and baby mama Shivon Zilis revealed on Friday the billionaire abruptly ended their relationship 'with no warning.'
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billionaire → reveal → warning
The couple are pictured back in February
Zilis, who is the mother of four of Musk's 14 kids, hinted she was blindsided by the breakup - sharing a screenshot of loved-up text messages the pair had exchanged just last week.
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'It was really wonderful to see you for breakfast.
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Love you very much,' she texted him.
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I didn't realize that this Xi dinner included significant other (Beijing one did not) or I would have invited you,' he responded on September 24, prompting her to reply: 'Aw, that means so much to me.
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Musk, 55, hasn't yet commented on the breakup.
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The first apparent sign of trouble in the couple's romance came back on September 28 when Zilis had posted a cryptic message on social media: 'New day, new life.'
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Then, earlier on Friday, Big Tech Alert, an account that tracks the online activity of technology figures, flagged that Musk had unfollowed her.
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The Tesla founder only follows around 1,400 accounts.
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News of the shock split comes just months after Zilis - who is one of four women Musk has children with - took the stand as a key witness in the Space X founder’s case against OpenAI earlier this year.
It was during her testimony that key details about their once-secret romance were laid bare.
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Zilis, who was born in Ontario, Canada, and studied at Yale University, had first met Musk through OpenAI - the artificial intelligence lab he co-founded in 2015.
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Zilis, who is the mother of four of Musk's 14 kids, hinted she was blindsided by the breakup - sharing a screenshot of loved-up text messages the pair had exchanged just last week
Zilis, who is the mother of four of Musk's 14 kids, hinted she was blindsided by the breakup.
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They are pictured in February last year meeting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Washington, DC
She testified that their relationship began as 'a one-off' at a corporate off-site event - but it later turned romantic around 2016.
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Zilis told the jury that when she decided to have children as a single mom, Musk 'offered to make a donation' as a platonic sperm donor towards the end of 2020.
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Their twins, Strider and Azure, were born by IVF in November 2021.
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News of their third child, Arcadia, surfaced in June 2024.
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And their son, Seldon Lycurgus, followed in February 2025.
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Zilis testified that she lives in a house in Austin, Texas, where Musk often stays when he visits their children.
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Prior to becoming director of operations and special projects at Neuralink, Zilis had previously worked as a project director on Tesla's Autopilot team from 2017 to 2019.
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The Daily Mail has reached out to Zilis and Musk.
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