Breaking up (with Elon Musk) is hard to do

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In a throwback to MySpace-style internet drama, Shivon Zilis announced that she and the father of four of her children, Elon Musk, had broken up on X.

To do so, she quote-tweeted a post from “Big Tech Alert,” an account that, among other things, monitors what accounts are following and unfollowing each other. That post noted Musk was no longer following her on X. It was also sponsored by Kalshi, because everything in this relationship is totally fucking cursed, dude.

In her statement, Zilis wrote, “It’s hard to go from in love to let go in a week with no warning, but that’s just how it is sometimes.”

Zilis, in addition to her romantic, uh, entanglement with Musk, also served as… well, she denied under oath that she was his chief of staff but says she worked across Musk’s “entire AI portfolio: Tesla, Neuralink, and OpenAI” during a trial earlier this year, in which Musk sued Sam Altman — long story, there’s some specious legal reasoning but mostly it just looks like punishment for being successful without Musk — over Musk’s donations to OpenAI.

During the trial, she claimed to work 80 to 100 hour weeks for Musk, “to go find bottlenecks and solve them.”

Musk apparently had a different view of her role, testifying that she was his chief of staff, and “uh,