Elon Musk and Justine Musk; All you need to know about the duo during…

This week Elon Musk, Tesla entrepreneur, SpaceX founder and world’s richest man, announced that he bought Twitter for $44billion to “unlock its potential” as a “free speech platform”.

It’s been a busy year for Musk. As well as making headlines for his billionaire business investments, he’s welcomed a second baby daughter, Exa Dark Sideræll, with on-and-off girlfriend Grimes, has been called to testify in ex-girlfriend Amber Heard’s televised trial with her former husband Johnny Depp and has been with rumoured new girlfriend actress Natasha Bassett.

His colourful personal life can probably be put down to his aversion to being alone. Musk told Rolling Stone he’s struggled with loneliness since childhood. “When I was a child, there’s one thing I said: I never want to be alone.” It’s a sentiment he’s echoed after his break up with actress Amber Heard. “If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy,” he said during an interview with author Neil Strauss, later adding, “I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.”

From his university sweetheart to private jet dates with Australian superstars, here’s an inside look at the three-time divorced Elon Musk.

Justine Musk (1998- 2008)

He met his first wife at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. Justine Musk née Wilson wrote in a personal essay for Marie Claire in 2009 that Elon Musk invited her out for ice cream. She decided to blow him off by sticking a note to his dorm room door, yet he still showed up with “two chocolate-chip ice cream cones dripping down his hands. He’s not a man who takes no for an answer.”

Elon Musk and Justine Musk; All you need to know about the duo during…

Although Musk transferred to Wharton in Pennsylvania, he kept sending Wilson roses which meant she finally agreed to have dinner with him on one of his visits back to Canada. Justine also said Musk wooed her by giving her his credit card to buy as many books as she wanted.

By graduation, however, the pair had gone their separate ways. Justine obtained a degree in English literature and later moved to Japan to teach English as a second language (ESL). After a year, she returned to Canada where she began bartending and working on her novel. As she recalled in Marie Claire, Justine told her sister that if Elon reached back out to her, she would reconsider their relationship. The tech entrepreneur called her up one week later. The couple reconnected and Justine moved to California to be with Elon.

The two finally married in 2000 and went on to have twins and triplets — five sons in total, after the heartbreaking death of their first son, Nevada, whom they lost to SIDS. They split in 2008, with Justine telling Marie Claire in 2010 that her ex-husband thought of her as a “starter wife.”