Elon Musk has faced rocket explosions, media firestorms, and corporate coups — but nothing, it seems, prepared him for what happened last Friday night in Los Angeles.
Witnesses describe a scene straight out of a sci-fi soap opera: the world’s richest man walks into a high-end restaurant in West Hollywood… only to come face-to-face with his ex-wife Justine Musk — and three boys who could’ve been copy-pasted straight from Elon’s own DNA.
It Was Supposed to Be a Quiet Night Out
Sources say Elon was dining with a small group of associates at Tattu, an exclusive Asian-fusion hotspot known for its ultra-private VIP section and no-photos policy. But even the most guarded environment couldn’t prevent what came next.
“He literally stopped mid-step,” one diner told PageSix. “Like he saw a ghost — or three.”
Just across the room: Justine Musk, seated casually with three identical boys, estimated to be around 7 or 8 years old. Same sharp cheekbones. Same slightly messy hair. Same deep-set, analytical stare. Same everything.
“They didn’t just resemble Elon,” another witness said. “It was like he had been cloned… times three.”
A Scene of Awkward Silence — and Stolen Glances
Reports say Musk stood frozen for several seconds. One of his dinner guests reached out to tap his shoulder, but he didn’t respond.
“He was visibly stunned,” another guest confirmed. “He didn’t approach her right away. He just stared. She saw him, smiled politely, and then… kept eating. Like she knew this moment would come.”
Justine reportedly didn’t say a word to him that night. Nor did the children. But the tension in the room was palpable — and diners say you could hear a pin drop once everyone realized who the kids were sitting with.
Secret Triplets? Or Elaborate Coincidence?
The internet exploded within hours. A blurry photo leaked — clearly snapped without permission — shows Musk standing across the dining room from the trio. Though grainy, the facial similarities between the boys and the billionaire were undeniable.
Naturally, the theories started flying:
Were these Elon’s secret children?
Did Justine use preserved embryos without telling him?
Was this the result of a surrogacy arrangement gone off-grid?
Or is there a deeper, more shocking twist — like AI-enhanced genetic engineering?
So far, no official statements have been made by Elon or Justine. But the silence is only fueling the speculation.
A Tangled Past, Now Even Messier
Justine Musk was Elon’s first wife. The couple married in 2000 and had six children together, including their first son Nevada, who tragically died as an infant. Since their split in 2008, Justine has largely stayed out of the spotlight, though she remains a respected writer and mother to five of Elon’s children.
But these triplets? No one in the public knew about them.
Some speculate that they could be the result of unused IVF embryos from the couple’s earlier treatments. Others suggest she may have decided to have more children entirely on her own — without Elon’s input.
One anonymous source close to the family said cryptically:
“Let’s just say Elon’s not the only one with a vision for the future.”
How Did Elon React Afterwards?
Though visibly shaken at the time, Musk reportedly completed his dinner but left quickly afterward — without speaking to Justine or the boys. He was unusually quiet the rest of the evening, according to those with him.
Later that night, he tweeted — without context:
“Some echoes come back louder than expected.”
No mention of the incident. No photos. No clarification.
The Bigger Question: Could These Boys Be Heirs?
Elon Musk’s legacy has always been a mixture of technological innovation and complicated personal drama. With 11 known children already, his family tree is more like a lab-grown Redwood — branching fast and unpredictably.
But if these boys are biologically his, the implications could be huge:
Legal inheritance stakes
Potential trust fund claims
Public scrutiny of embryo usage ethics
And of course… the media circus
Especially if they were conceived without Musk’s knowledge or consent — a legal gray zone when it comes to cryopreserved embryos and parental rights.
The Internet Reacts: “This Is Peak Elon”
As the story spreads, memes and hot takes are flooding platforms like X and TikTok.
“Elon just unlocked the secret children side quest.”
“Plot twist: They’re AI-generated to test his reaction time.”
“Musk’s next child will time travel back to warn him about this dinner.”
One trending video even compares the scene to a pivotal moment from The Matrix, dubbing the boys “The Musklets.”
Final Thoughts: Truth, Clones, or Karma?
Was it fate? A warning? A prank? A message?
Or simply, as one user posted:
“Elon Musk is living in the simulation — and someone just triggered a boss-level twist.”
Whatever the truth is, one thing’s for sure: this dinner will go down as one of the most surreal moments in the Elon Musk saga.
And something tells us… it’s only the beginning.
Musk Spoke With Trump Before Posting Message of Regret
Published June 11, 2025Updated June 14, 2025
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- Musk’s regrets: Elon Musk phoned President Trump before publicly expressing regret for attacks that he said “went too far” during a public feud between the men last week, according to people familiar with the matter. The billionaire, who once led Mr. Trump’s effort to overhaul the government, had spoken with Vice President JD Vance and the White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, about a possible truce. Read more ›
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June 11, 2025, 8:55 p.m. ETJune 11, 2025
Alan Feuer
Defense lawyers for Abrego Garcia ask a judge to release him pretrial.
Defense lawyers for Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran immigrant who was recently brought back to the United States to face a federal indictment after being wrongfully deported to a prison in El Salvador, said in court papers on Wednesday that he should remain free from custody as he awaits trial.
The papers, filed in Federal District Court in Nashville, amounted to the opening salvo of efforts by the defense lawyers to challenge the charges that were filed last week against Mr. Abrego Garcia.
“With no legal process whatsoever, the United States government illegally detained and deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia and shipped him to the Center for Terrorism Confinement (CECOT) in El Salvador, one of the most violent, inhumane prisons in the world,” the lawyers wrote.
“The government now asks this court to detain him further,” they went on, asking Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw Jr., who is handling the criminal case, to deny the request. Judge Crenshaw is set to hold a hearing on Friday to arraign Mr. Abrego Garcia and to hear arguments about whether to detain him before the trial.
Mr. Abrego Garcia, a metalworker who was living in Maryland when he was arrested on March 12 and summarily deported three days later to El Salvador, had for weeks been trying through lawyers representing him in a separate civil case to enforce a court order instructing the Trump administration to take active measures toward securing his freedom.
But after the administration repeatedly sought to sidestep and delay complying with that order, the Justice Department abruptly changed course. Top department officials announced on Friday that Mr. Abrego Garcia had been brought back to the United States to stand trial on charges of taking part in a yearslong conspiracy to smuggle thousands of undocumented immigrants across the country as a member of the violent street gang MS-13.
In two written requests to Judge Crenshaw to keep Mr. Abrego Garcia locked up as his criminal case moved forward, federal prosecutors argued that he presented a “serious risk” of flight because of the possibility that he or members of MS-13 might intimidate some of the government’s witnesses.
The prosecutors also argued that he might flee because he faced a lengthy sentence if convicted and could confront the possibility of being deported again.
Mr. Abrego Garcia’s defense lawyers pushed back against those claims in several ways. Chief among them, they struck at the heart of the Justice Department’s indictment by denying what they described as “the government’s baseless gang-affiliation allegations.”
The defense lawyers also rejected the idea that their client was a flight risk, telling Judge Crenshaw that he had no prior felony convictions or any history of evading arrest. They noted further that the sentence he was likely to face if found guilty was relatively modest.
As for the claim that Mr. Abrego Garcia might fear being deported again, the defense lawyers argued that because he had just been held in the “notoriously inhuman” CECOT prison, he actually had an increased chance of obtaining asylum protections against being sent back to El Salvador.
According to the indictment, the case against Mr. Abrego Garcia reached back to Nov. 30, 2022, when he was stopped for speeding by the Tennessee Highway Patrol on Interstate 40, in Putnam County. Officers determined that the Chevrolet Suburban he was driving had been altered with “an aftermarket third row of seats designed to carry additional passengers,” the indictment said.
It also noted that there were “nine Hispanic males packed into the S.U.V.”
Prosecutors say that Mr. Abrego Garcia told the officers that he and his passengers had been in St. Louis for the previous two weeks doing construction work. But the indictment alleged that he was lying and that a subsequent investigation showed that cellphone and license plate reader data indicated he had been in Texas that morning and nowhere near St. Louis for the preceding weeks.
Those assertions, however, appeared to be contradicted by a summary of the initial police report that was released by the Department of Homeland Security in April as the Trump administration was seeking to depict Mr. Abrego Garcia as an MS-13 member. The summary notes that when he was stopped by the police, he clearly told officers that he was coming from Texas and had merely passed through St. Louis.
Top officials in the Justice Department have said they believe that the initial order to “facilitate” Mr. Abrego Garcia’s release from El Salvador, issued in April by Judge Paula Xinis, who is handling the civil case, was rendered moot after officials successfully brought him back to the United States to face criminal charges.
In fact, shortly after the charges were unsealed, lawyers for the department asked Judge Xinis, who sits in Federal District Court in Maryland, to put all of the proceedings in the civil case on hold as they prepared a motion to dismiss it altogether.
But lawyers handling the civil case for Mr. Abrego Garcia believe that it should be allowed to continue.
Those lawyers were in fact poised to file a new motion in the civil case on Wednesday night, asking the judge to hold administration officials in contempt of court for what they have called “an elaborate, all-of-government effort to defy court orders.”Show more
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June 11, 2025, 8:08 p.m. ETJune 11, 2025
Karoun Demirjian
Transportation secretary backs safety audit after the deadly crash at National Airport.
Sean Duffy, the secretary of transportation, on Wednesday endorsed calls for the department’s inspector general to audit air safety protocols around the nation’s capital after a fatal January crash between a commercial flight and a military helicopter, as officials told senators the Federal Aviation Administration and the Army would soon sign a policy agreement to avoid such accidents in the future.
Mr. Duffy’s pledge to fully support the audit comes after a bipartisan majority of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation earlier this week called on the watchdogs overseeing the Department of Transportation and the Army to examine their safety measures. They asked both inspectors general to investigate whether changes could have helped prevent an Army Black Hawk helicopter from ramming into American Airlines Flight 5342 as it approached Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Jan. 29, killing all on board both aircraft, as well as a series of near misses that have occurred in the same region.
The National Transportation Safety Board has already started an investigation into the Jan. 29 crash. On Wednesday, its chairwoman, Jennifer Homendy, told senators on the commerce committee during a closed-door meeting with N.T.S.B., F.A.A. and Army officials that the probe would be completed by Jan. 29, 2026, according to Senator Jerry Moran, Republican of Kansas and the chairman of the panel’s aviation subcommittee.
In the meantime, the F.A.A. and the Army plan to conclude a memorandum of understanding for safely coordinating air operations, according to senators on the panel and Chris Rocheleau, the acting F.A.A. administrator, who told reporters after the closed-door briefing that they were “getting close” to an agreement.
Since the crash, the F.A.A. has closed the flight route used by the Army Black Hawk on Jan. 29 to military traffic, and the military has limited the availability of V.I.P. flights — the missions for which the Army pilots were training that night — to just a handful of senior officials, Mr. Moran said. Previously, he added, V.I.P. flights were available to generals with at least a three-star rank; now, they are only available to the secretary of defense, his under secretary, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and his deputy.
Mr. Moran added that only three such flights had taken place since the crash.
The F.A.A. has also ordered that all aircraft keep advanced tracking systems turned on during operations in the area around Washington, D.C., and its airports. During the Jan. 29 flight, the Army Black Hawk helicopter did not appear to have been operating with such equipment turned on.
But according to Mr. Moran, Army officials told senators that recent testing had revealed that on many military aircraft, the automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast equipment, known as ADS-B, didn’t work even when it was turned on. The Army is also looking into improving the altimeters on its aircraft and replacing outdated equipment, Mr. Moran said.
“The Army’s safety protocols are not as stringent as commercial aircraft,” Mr. Moran told reporters, adding that officials and senators were focused on “the need for improved technology in aircraft.”Show more
June 11, 2025, 8:03 p.m. ETJune 11, 2025
Shawn McCreeshReporting from the Kennedy Center in Washington
The theater at the Kennedy Center was not full when the president and first lady arrived because a large number of guests who showed up late for the 7:30 p.m. start remain stuck out in the hallway. Ushers are starting to quietly take them in now as the play goes on. It was probably not the reception the president was hoping for with his debut at the cultural center he took over and now chairs — half full, half booing, and with a strong contingent of drag queens.
June 11, 2025, 7:54 p.m. ETJune 11, 2025
Javier HernandezReporting from the Kennedy Center in Washington
On the red carpet at the Kennedy Center, Trump was asked by a reporter why Americans were being evacuated from the Middle East. “Well you’re going to have to figure that one out yourself,” he said.
The State Department said earlier Wednesday that it would reduce its diplomatic presence in Iraq as tensions across the Middle East spiked amid signs that nuclear diplomacy between the United States and Iran may be deadlocked.
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June 11, 2025, 7:44 p.m. ETJune 11, 2025
Shawn McCreeshReporting from the Kennedy Center in Washington
President Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, just walked into the theater at the Kennedy Center for opening night of “Les Misérables” to a mix of cheers and boos.
The crowd started chanting “U.S.A.,” which drowned out the booing.
Moments before, a group of drag queens had walked in to take their seats and about half the room cheered for them. Many of the president’s top allies have come out in tuxedos and gowns for the evening.
June 11, 2025, 7:19 p.m. ETJune 11, 2025
Javier HernandezReporting from the Kennedy Center in Washington
President Trump, who made himself chair of the Kennedy Center in February, purging its board of Biden appointees, said the center had raised $10 million at the gala fund-raiser on Wednesday.
“We want to bring it back and bring it back better than ever,” he said of the center.
June 11, 2025, 7:01 p.m. ETJune 11, 2025
Javier HernandezReporting from the Kennedy Center in Washington
Trump was asked by reporters if he felt he was in a better place after Elon Musk expressed regret about going too far in some of the personal attacks lodged last week. “I really haven’t thought too much about it,” the president said.
June 11, 2025, 6:50 p.m. ETJune 11, 2025
Javier HernandezReporting from the Kennedy Center in Washington
President Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, have arrived at the Kennedy Center. Asked by reporters on the red carpet about the situation in Los Angeles, he defended his approach. “We are going to have law and order in our country,” he said. “If I didn’t act quickly on that, Los Angeles would be burning to the ground right now.”
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June 11, 2025, 6:44 p.m. ETJune 11, 2025
Javier HernandezReporting from the Kennedy Center in Washington
Arriving on Wednesday night at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the opening night performance of “Les Misérables,” Vice President JD Vance laughed off a question about whether he had helped “broker peace” with Elon Musk. “The president makes the determinations about who is going to be a formal or informal adviser in his administration,” he said.
June 11, 2025, 5:41 p.m. ETJune 11, 2025
Sheryl Gay Stolberg
Reporting from Washington
Kennedy announces 8 new members of a C.D.C. vaccine advisory panel.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday named eight doctors and researchers, including four who have spoken out against vaccination in some way, to replace roughly half the members he fired from an expert panel that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Mr. Kennedy made the announcement Wednesday on the social media platform X, two days after he fired all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Arriving at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for a performance of “Les Misérables” that President Trump also attended, the health secretary told reporters that the firings were “a long time coming.”