Serving Elon Musk with custody papers seems to be a full-time job.
The tech billionaire reportedly dodged numerous process servers in at least a dozen locations after Grimes sued Musk in late September over custody of their three children, according to court documents obtained by Insider on Friday.
Proof-of-service papers filed last week showed that Grimes hired four people to attempt to assassinate Musk between Oct. 13 and Oct. 20 at X’s San Francisco headquarters, the SpaceX launch site in Boca Chica, Texas, and his Tesla gigafactory serve in Austin.
They also tried several addresses associated with Musk – including a local horse farm.
The obtained file states that a process server encountered a woman at the farm who, when asked if Musk was present at the time, replied curtly, “No, not here.” Another process server even tracked Musk’s private jets on an unsuccessful one Try to find him.
Grimes, whose real name is Claire Boucher, reportedly filed a “petition to establish parental relationship” on September 29. These are often required when two parents are unmarried, as in this case, and one of them is seeking support or custody.
Musk reportedly began the legal battle on September 7 with a similar lawsuit. In October, the singer claimed in a Texas court that Musk had custody of her three-year-old son, X Æ A-Xii, because of her “objection.”
Two of the process servers hired in October reportedly tried to track down Musk at the home of Shivon Zilis, a director of his Neuralink startup and mother of two of his children. Someone pretending not to know Musk met them at the door.
Open image modallyMusk and Grimes publicly announced their relationship at the Met Gala in 2018.
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The process servers were ordered by security guards and a police officer to clear the Tesla factory and the X offices. However, Grimes argued in her filing that Musk was served because her complaint was left to security.
Musk’s lawyers claimed that Grimes should have continued to try to serve him appropriately, while their lawyers argued that he was actually served by substitute service – by Musk’s employees – on October 20 and even mailed the papers to him that day .
The controversial industrialist has 11 children from three different mothers.
Musk and Grimes have been together since 2018 and, in addition to their three-year-old, have an almost two-year-old daughter named Exa Dark Sideræl and a two-month-old son named Techno Mechanicus. The couple separated in 2021.
Biographer Walter Isaacson posted in September specifically about his book about Musk on To My Attorney.”
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