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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Richard Hall

‘Deadbeat dad’: Elon Musk under fire for apparently ignoring pleas from Grimes to help his sick child

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Musk has spouted recently on X about his plans to follow Trump to Kentucky to do a live stream of Fort Knox - (AP)

As Elon Musk strutted around the CPAC stage on Thursday in a pair of garish sunglasses, waving a chainsaw and cracking cringe-worthy jokes, the mother of his children was publicly pleading with him to stop ignoring her requests for help with their kid’s health emergency.

Grimes, a Canadian singer who shares three children with Musk, directed a series of messages to the world’s wealthiest man on X, the website he owns, urging him to respond to her requests for help.

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