Justine Wilson, 49
2000 – 2008
Elon Musk with his first wife Justine
Musk met his first wife Justine Wilson when the pair were studying together in Ontario.
They married in 2000, moved to Los Angeles and welcomed their first son – Nevada – who died of sudden infant death syndrome when he was just 10 weeks old.
They had twins together and then triplets; Griffin, Xavier, Damian, Saxon and Kai.
She told in an article by Marie Claire how she considered herself to be his “novice wife.”
The couple divorced in 2008 after eight years of marriage and five children.
They were dating when he made his first millions through Zip2.com, an Internet company that earned him $20 million in the late 1990s.
While they were dating and engaged, he founded X.com – which later became PayPal.
When they divorced in 2008, they had a post-marital agreement. It is unclear what she received in a settlement.
She wrote in her Marie Claire essay that Elon made her “disposable.”
Talulah Riley, 36
2010-2016
Musk married British actress Talulah Riley within weeks of meeting her following his divorce from Justine. The couple married in 2010 and divorced in 2012.
Musk with Talulah Riley, his second wife (whom he married twice) and his twin sons Griffin, left, and Xavier, right, in 2010
They remarried in 2013 and Musk filed for divorce, but backed out the following year. Finally, Talulah filed for divorce in 2016.
They have always spoken highly of each other in public and say they are on good terms.
Talulah said in a recent interview that they ‘keep taking care of each other’
Amber Heard, 36
Elon Musk with Amber Heard
2017-2018
The following year, he went public with Amber Heard, following her acrimonious divorce from Johnny Depp.
Although their relationship was brief (they broke up after only a year), they seemed to remain friends.
Musk honored Amber’s promised payments to the ACLU that she said she would pay using her divorce settlement from Depp.
She had promised to give the full $7 million to the charities, but this week revealed under questioning that she had been unable to do so and that Musk had made some payments in her name.
Grimes, 34
2018-2021
After Heard, Musk moved on to singer Grimes and debuted as a couple at the 2018 Met Gala.
They welcomed a son in May 2020 and named him X Æ A-Xii.
By September 2021, the couple had separated. However, Musk told Page Six that they were still on “good terms.” In December 2021, Grimes stunned the world by announcing that the couple had welcomed another baby – a daughter they had via surrogate.
The baby girl’s name is Exa Dark Sideræl, but they call her ‘Y’.
Musk left with his ex-girlfriend Grimes. They have two children together – a son, X Æ A-Xii (right with Musk) and a daughter, Y, whom they welcomed in December
Natasha Bassett, 27
February 2022
Musk was photographed with Australian actress Natasha Bassett in May 2022.
The pair were spotted having a romantic lunch in the South of France while they were both in town for movie premieres and weddings.
He didn’t take her to the wedding of Hollywood agent Ari Emanuel and designer Sarah Staudinger as his guest, but the pair were seen laughing, eating and drinking on their date the same weekend.
Bassett, 27, reportedly took Musk’s mother, Maye, as her date to a movie premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
Bassett moved from Australia to the US when she was 19. She first worked in New York and then traveled to LA. It’s unclear how she and Musk met.
Shivon Zilis, 2021
Born in Ontario, Canada, Zilis met Musk through OpenAI, the artificial intelligence nonprofit that Musk co-founded in 2015
Born in Ontario, Canada, Zilis met Musk through OpenAI, the non-profit artificial intelligence organization that Musk co-founded in 2015.
She studied economics and philosophy at Yale, where she was also a goalie on the women’s ice hockey team.
In 2015, Zilis was featured on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list in the venture capital category, and in 2017 she was given the opportunity to bring her AI expertise to Tesla.
Last year, Zilis posted a nod to Prince Harry’s Silicon Valley startup with a look back at the two of them from 2013, when she was asked to brief him on tech startups.
Zilis also served as the director of operations and special projects for Neuralink, Musk’s brain-machine interface company.