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Elon Musk’s pattern of keeping the arrangement to cash only
However, Elon has not kept this pattern with Justine alone. According to reports, even with his arrangement with Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of his children, he followed a similar template for all the mothers of his children. He offered Clair USD 15 million and USD 100,000 a month in exchange for her silence about the child, whom they named Romulus. He just as quickly pulled back the offer after she went public about Elon being the father of her son.
Something similar happened with his relationship with British actress, Talulah Riley. It didn’t take long for them to fall for each other and were even “engaged within two weeks of knowing each other,” Riley said in 2018 during a 60 Minutes story. Elon was married to Talulah twice: from 2010 to 2012, then again from 2013 to 2016. However, the pair did not have any children, and she reportedly still received a similar sum to Justine’s from the two divorces combined. In 2022, she called Elon “the perfect ex-husband” and “a great friend.”
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How are Elon Musk’s divorces different from other superwealthy divorces?
According to reports, if Justine had gotten the stakes, she’d be worth USD 17.3 billion today. A sum close enough to make her the planet’s 113th-richest person. It’s a stark contrast to two other superwealthy divorces of recent times, including Jeff Bezos’ divorce from his ex-wife, MacKenzie Scott, which gave her one-quarter of his then 16 per cent stake in e-commerce giant Amazon in their 2019 divorce. It was 36 billion at the time.
Another big divorce was Bill Gates’ 2021 divorce settlement with Melinda French Gates, which wasn’t made public, but Forbes estimates she received USD 25 billion from his then-estimated USD 124 billion fortune. This is living proof that while Elon is willing to spend money of his ex-partners, parting with ownership is not something he has considered.