- Grimes addressed Elon Musk directly in a series of X posts on Saturday.
- Sandy Garossino said the former couple’s children cannot visit Grimes’ family because Musk is “stifling” them.
- Musk and Grimes are involved in a custody battle involving their three children.
Grimes’ mother said Elon Musk “hid” the former couple’s children from the rest of the family.
Sandy Garossino addressed Musk directly in a series of X posts on Saturday, writing that Grimes and her children were scheduled to visit their 93-year-old great-grandmother in Canada this weekend. Grimes, a Canadian singer, has three children with Musk: X Æ A-Xii, Exa Dark Sideræl, and Techno Mechanicus.
“She was excited about plans to have her kids visit for her birthday this weekend. Today. However, those hopes were dashed when the trip was canceled,” Garossino wrote in X.
“I was shocked to learn that the children could not come because you were withholding them and the passport documents they needed from Claire,” he added, referring to Grimes by her given first name.
Musk attended the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics on Friday with his and Grimes’ eldest son, X. Footage shared on X appeared to show Musk and his son together at the event.
He also attended Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to members of Congress on Wednesday in Washington, DC.
Garossino implied that Grimes doesn’t even know where all of her children are.
“Where are the other children, and with whom? They were scheduled to be with their mother. They were expected to be in Canada,” she wrote.
Garossino then asked Musk to “honor your agreement, return the children, and provide the documents they need to see their great-grandmother before she dies.”
“Please Elon, I beg you. This is so painful for my mother, and so worrying for the kids. Time is of the essence right now,” she wrote.
Grimes and Musk have been involved in a custody battle over their children since 2022, but the current status of the case is unknown as court records were sealed in April 2024.
Musk has 12 children with three women, including his ex-wife Justine Wilson and Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis.
After Garossino spoke at X, Musk’s estranged daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson, also criticized the Tesla founder on Threads.
Wilson was critical of Musk in an NBC News interview published Thursday. Wilson, who is transgender, told NBC that Musk was an absentee and abusive father. Musk has referred to Wilson by her former name in X, and wrote that she is “not a girl.”
“As you may or may not know, Grimes is currently in the middle of a custody battle with Elon over their three children,” Wilson wrote in Threads on Saturday. “What you may not know, however, is that Elon is illegally and persistently keeping their children, Grimes’ children, away from their mother during the most important developmental period in a child’s life.”
Grimes voiced her support for Wilson with an X-rated post on Thursday following the NBC News interview.
“I love and am forever proud of Vivian,” Grimes wrote.
Business Insider reached out to Garossino via text message on Saturday. He said he would not be commenting beyond what he wrote to X on Saturday.
Representatives for Grimes and Musk did not immediately respond to Business Insider’s request for comment.
