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Updated · The Verge · Oct 2

Shivon Zilis Announces Split From Elon Musk After X Unfollow, Ending Relationship Behind 4 Children

Updated

Updated · The Verge · Oct 2

Shivon Zilis Announces Split From Elon Musk After X Unfollow, Ending Relationship Behind 4 Children

Q: What triggered Elon Musk's sudden split from Shivon Zilis just months after the birth of their fourth child?

There is no confirmed public explanation for what triggered Elon Musk’s split from Shivon Zilis. By Zilis’s own account, it was abrupt: she wrote that she went from being “in love” to being “let go in a week with no warning.” What is documented is how the breakup surfaced, not why it happened. It became public after the X account Big Tech Alert noted that Musk was no longer following Zilis on X. Zilis then confirmed the breakup herself in a reply, making clear that the separation had happened suddenly and that she was blindsided by it. The available reporting suggests that, just days earlier, the relationship appeared intact. Zilis shared a screenshot of messages that seemed to show Musk telling her “Love you too” and saying he would have invited her to a high-profile dinner with Chinese President Xi Jinping if he had realized partners could attend. That has fueled speculation that something changed quickly afterward, but there is no verified evidence in the reporting identifying a specific cause. So the best-supported answer is that the trigger remains unknown. The only established facts are that Musk appears to have ended the relationship abruptly, Zilis said there was no warning, and the breakup became visible publicly when his unfollow on X was noticed.

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Shivon Zilis said on X that she and Elon Musk had broken up, writing that she went from “in love to let go in a week with no warning.”
The post came after a Big Tech Alert account flagged that Musk had unfollowed her on X, prompting Zilis to confirm the split publicly.
Zilis framed the breakup in affectionate terms, saying she had loved Musk “more than life itself” and noting they share four children.
The split adds to a pattern of public disputes involving Musk and the mothers of his children; Musk has 14 known children.