Talulah Riley

Shortly after Musk filed for divorce from Justine, he met actress Talulah Riley. The pair first connected at a bar in London, according to Business Insider. Riley later recalled that she didn’t know who he was at the time.

“I remember thinking that this guy probably didn’t get to talk to young actresses a lot and that he seemed quite nervous,” she told biographer Ashlee Vance. “I decided to be really nice to him and give him a nice evening. Little did I know that he’d spoken to a lot of pretty girls in his life.”

Just six weeks after Musk filed for divorce from Justine, he and Riley were engaged. Riley moved to L.A., and they tied the knot at Dornoch Cathedral in Scotland in 2010. Musk filed for divorce just two years later.

“It was an amazing four years. I will love you forever. You will make someone very happy one day,” he tweeted.

But their relationship didn’t end there — in July 2013, Musk and Riley tied the knot for the second time.

Musk filed for divorce again in 2014 but withdrew the petition seven months later. In March 2016, Riley filed for a divorce, which was finalized in November.

In 2022, Riley told The Independent that she knew it was “strange” to marry and divorce Musk twice. Despite their split, she added that they remained friendly.

She told the outlet: “I suppose the reason to get remarried was just because it felt silly to be together unmarried after having been married. You know, it’s like a habit. We were saying, ‘This is my husband.’ ‘This is my wife.’ ‘Oh, wait, no, we’re not that anymore. We better be that again.’ “

Riley married actor Thomas Brodie-Sangster on June 22, 2024. The couple wed in front of family and friends at St. George’s Church in England.

Amber Heard

While Musk and Riley were separated in 2012, he reached out to director Robert Rodriguez, asking to set up a dinner with actress Amber Heard. (Musk and Heard both appeared in Rodriguez’s film Machete Kills.)

The pair arranged a dinner, but Heard, who was dating Johnny Depp at the time, did not show up. It would be several years before they connected, although exactly when their relationship turned romantic is unclear. While Depp claimed in court papers in his 2022 defamation trial against Heard that Musk and Heard secretly began dating in 2015, Heard said in court she was not acquainted with Musk until the 2016 Met Gala after Depp “stood [her] up” on the red carpet.

“I didn’t recognize [Musk] until we started talking and he reminded me we had met once before,” Heard recalled during the trial. “He seemed like a real gentleman. He was really nice. He sat at a nearby table and we got to speaking that night and eventually became friends.”

Heard filed for divorce from Depp just a few weeks later. In July 2016, she and Musk began to spark romance rumors.

In April 2017, they made things Instagram official during a trip to Australia. By May, insiders shared that the couple were “very serious about each other,” and Heard had already met Musk’s children.

However, in August 2017, the couple called it quits. Sources told PEOPLE that their busy schedules were to blame for the split, which was allegedly initiated by Musk. Musk left a comment on one of Heard’s Instagram posts, writing that things ended amicably.

“Although Amber and I did break up, we are still friends, remain close and love one another,” he wrote. “Long distance relationships, when both partners have intense work obligations are always difficult, but who knows what the future holds.”

Shortly after, the pair were spotted together again and released a joint statement to clear the air. In a message shared with PEOPLE, the couple wrote that distance had been tough on their relationship, but they still had the “utmost respect” for each other.

In November 2017, Musk opened up about their breakup in an interview, sharing that he had been “really in love” and it “hurt bad” when they went their separate ways.

The next month, Musk was spotted with Heard again. Although they were photographed kissing, sources said they were “just friends.” Days later, Musk and Heard were spotted vacationing together in Chile, and by January, it appeared that their relationship had taken a romantic turn.

The pair split for the second time in February 2018; a source told PEOPLE the “timing wasn’t right” for the couple. In an interview later that year, Heard spoke positively about Musk and shared that they had bonded over their “intellectual curiosity, ideas and conversation, a shared love for science.”

She said, “Elon and I had a beautiful relationship, and we have a beautiful friendship now, one that was based on our core values.”

Grimes

In April 2018, Musk sparked dating rumors with musician Grimes (née Claire Boucher) after they shared a flirty interaction on Twitter. Just a few days later, the couple made their red carpet debut at the Met Gala.

“They’ve been seeing each other but have been keeping their relationship under the radar,” a source said.

In August 2018, the couple reportedly unfollowed each other on social media, leading to speculation that they had broken up. Despite the split rumors, Musk and Grimes were spotted in October at a pumpkin patch in L.A. with his children. In December 2019, Kim Kardashian included the pair in a group photo from the Kardashian-Jenner family Christmas party.

In January 2020, Grimes announced her pregnancy and confirmed that Musk was the baby’s father.

​​”It’s sacrificing your body and your freedom. It’s a pretty crazy sacrifice and only half of the population has to do it,” she said in an interview. “It was really profound to me when I decided I was going to do it, to actually go through the act of unprotected sex. … I do actually just really love my boyfriend. So I was like, ‘You know, sure.’ “

In May 2020, Musk and Grimes welcomed their first baby together, a son named X Æ A-12, or X for short. Musk shared that Grimes had taken on the majority of parenting duties in the first few months, but he looked forward to being able to be more involved when X was older.

The couple made a joint appearance on Saturday Night Live in May 2021; though they had “semi-separated” by September of that same year.

“It’s mostly that my work at SpaceX and Tesla requires me to be primarily in Texas or traveling overseas and her work is primarily in L.A.,” he told the New York Post’s Page Six. “She’s staying with me now and Baby X is in the adjacent room.”

Despite their separation, the couple welcomed their second baby via surrogate in December 2021. Grimes confirmed the birth during an interview with Vanity Fair in March 2022, sharing that they welcomed a baby girl named Exa “Y” Dark Sideræl. She also shared that she and Musk were back together.

“There’s no real word for it. I would probably refer to him as my boyfriend, but we’re very fluid,” she said. “We live in separate houses. We’re best friends. We see each other all the time. … We just have our own thing going on, and I don’t expect other people to understand it.”

On the same day Vanity Fair published the story, Grimes shared that the couple’s relationship status had changed since the interview.

“Me and E have broken up *again* since the writing of this article,” she tweeted. “But he’s my best friend and the love of my life, and my life and art are forever dedicated to The Mission now, I think Devin [Gordon of Vanity Fair] wrote that part of the story rly well. Sique – peace out.”

In September 2023, journalist Walter Isaacson’s biography about Musk revealed that the entrepreneur and Grimes had secretly welcomed a third child — son Techno Mechanicus, who also goes by “Tau.”

Shivon Zilis

In July 2022, Insider reported that Musk had fathered twins, Strider and Azure, in November 2021 with Shivon Zilis, an executive at his company Neuralink. While the parents originally were secretive about the babies’ names, Insider acquired Texas court documents that showed the pair had requested that the infants “have their father’s last name and contain their mother’s last name as part of their middle name.”

One day after news of Strider and Azure’s birth surfaced, Musk addressed the situation on Twitter. “Doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis,” he wrote. “A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far. Mark my words, they are sadly true.”

Zillis has claimed she was never romantically involved with Musk and that the twins were conceived with IVF, according to Reuters, which cited multiple people familiar with the situation.

The twins were born just weeks before Musk welcomed Y with Grimes.

In June 2024, Musk confirmed that he and Zilis had welcomed their third child together. The baby’s name and birth details were not disclosed.