When Elon Musk split up with wife, Talulah Riley, for the first time, he told the whole world.
'It
was an amazing four years. I will love you forever,' the entrepreneur
Tweeted to the British actress in January 2012. 'You will make someone
very happy one day.'
Eighteen months later, that happy person apparently was him, as they tied the knot again in July 2013.
The
rekindled romance didn't last. On Wednesday — the day many people make
vows for the coming year — the couple officially broke their marital
vow. Musk filed for divorce in Los Angeles County Superior Court on New
Year's Eve.
The
couple said they were splitting amicably and that Musk agreed to give
Riley $16 million in cash and other assets as part of a financial
settlement, according to a joint statement. A divorce filing said
property would be split based on a prenuptial agreement.
Musk made a
fortune co-founding PayPal and has gone on to start SpaceX and Tesla
Motors. Riley appeared in 'Pride & Prejudice,' ''Inception' and 'St.
Trinians.'
The couple first wedded in 2010. They didn't have any children, but Musk has five sons from a previous marriage.
Musk
and Riley were together for a year after they remarried, but they have
lived apart the past five months while Riley wrote and directed her
first feature film, 'Scottish Mussel,' in the United Kingdom.
The two said they remain friends.
Musk did not immediately Tweet news of the divorce Wednesday.
Mr
Musk, a South African who attended the University of Pennsylvania, made
his fortune by founding a series of highly-successful ventures --
beginning with Zip2, which produced online content publishing software
that was purchased in 1999 for nearly $340million.
Later,
for his next venture, Mr Musk helped create PayPal, the online money
transfer and payment service. Ebay bought PayPal for $1.2billion in
2002.
He
founded Space X later that year -- a outer space exploration company.
In 2009, the company launched the first privately-owned liquid-fueled
rocket ever to enter space. Space X now has a contract to deliver cargo
to the International Space Station that is worth between $1.6billion and
$3.1billion.
Mr Musk also founded Tesla Motors, an electric car company that had a $226million initial public offering in 2010.
...DailyMail
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