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In a throwback to MySpace-style internet drama, Shivon Zilis announced that she and the father of her four children, Elon Musk, had broken up on X.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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To do so, she quote-tweeted a post from \u201cBig Tech Alert,\u201d an account that, among other things, monitors what accounts are following and unfollowing each other. That post noted Musk was no longer following her on X. It was also sponsored by Kalshi<\/a>, because everything in this relationship is totally fucking cursed, dude.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In her statement, Zilis wrote<\/a>, \u201cIt\u2019s hard to go from in love to let go in a week with no warning, but that\u2019s just how it is sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Zilis, in addition to her romantic, uh, entanglement with Musk, also served as\u2026 well, she denied under oath that she was his chief of staff<\/a> but says she worked across Musk\u2019s \u201centire AI portfolio: Tesla, Neuralink, and OpenAI\u201d during a trial earlier this year, in which Musk sued Sam Altman \u2014 long story, there\u2019s some specious legal reasoning but mostly it just looks like punishment for being successful without Musk \u2014 over Musk\u2019s donations to OpenAI. During the trial, she claimed to work 80-to-100-hour weeks for Musk, \u201cto go find bottlenecks and solve them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Musk apparently had a different view of her role<\/a>, testifying that she was his chief of staff, and \u201cuh, you know,\u201d prompting loud laughter from the courtroom\u2019s gallery.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Musk has a history of public flameouts with the women who bear his children. Besides his first wife, Justine Musk, who wrote \u201cI Was a Starter Wife<\/a>\u201d before going absolutely silent on the subject of her ex, another mother of his children, Ashley St. Clair, has said that she rejected a $40 million NDA from Musk<\/a>. (She is presently suing him over his chatbot, Grok, making deepfake nudes of her.<\/a>) Another ex, Grimes, referred to pregnancy as \u201csacrificing your body and your freedom<\/a>,\u201d and later sued him to establish a parental relationship<\/a>. Grimes also posted and deleted a tweet saying \u201cTell Shivon to unblock me and tell Elon to let me see my son or plz respond to my lawyer\u201d to Musk\u2019s biographer Walter Isaacson<\/a> in 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Musk\u2019s fixer, Jared Birchall, orchestrates privacy deals for Musk<\/a> with the baby mamas. Musk has 14 known children.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cGiven the tumultuous nature of his early life, his often tortured soul, and how hard he fights for humanity I wanted him to feel the deepest and most stable form of love this world can provide.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Zilis was a member of OpenAI\u2019s board when she gave birth to twins, though she kept the parentage of the children secret. She only informed her coworkers about having kids with one of their competitors in 2022, after Business Insider<\/em> reported on court documents listing Musk as the children\u2019s father<\/a>. Musk lived with her at the time of the testimony.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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During her testimony in the case, Zilis appeared to worship Musk, and her breakup post strikes roughly the same tone. \u201cI feel happy that I got to show Elon how it feels to be deeply understood, nurtured, and peacefully loved with stability and gentleness,\u201d she wrote. \u201cGiven the tumultuous nature of his early life, his often tortured soul, and how hard he fights for humanity I wanted him to feel the deepest and most stable form of love this world can provide.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The post is so groveling that had I not witnessed her in court, I would have assumed this was some kind of passive-aggressive revenge strategy. Personally, if one of my exes publicly wrote that I was a poor fragile wreck trying to save the world who desperately needed a haven of safety, I would simply die of embarrassment, but God really does make all kinds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve loved him more than life itself and he\u2019s 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,\u201d Zilis wrote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Last week, Zilis posted about a memoir written by Maye Musk<\/a>, Elon\u2019s mother: \u201cDuring tough moments I think about the resilience she\u2019s shown and realize she\u2019s encountered 100x the difficultly I\u2019ve faced and she made it through with grace! It gives me resolve.\u201d I guess we know now what some of the \u201ctough moments\u201d were. \u201cI would highly recommend this book to anyone who wants a beacon of resilience to draw inspiration from,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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