Elon Musk's New Girlfriend Grimes Wears Choker to Met Gala, People Point Out Similarity to Tesla Log

May 2024 · 2 minute read

Tesla CEO Elon Musk and the musical artist Grimes made their rumored relationship at least red-carpet official on Monday night when they stepped out at the Met Gala together.

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Some on social media pointed out the similarity between the choker necklace Grimes wore and the Tesla logo, speculating that the logo may have been the design inspiration.

Claire Boucher, left, and Elon Musk attend The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination exhibition on Monday, May 7, 2018, in New York. Charles Sykes/AP

Here's the Tesla logo, for comparison:

REUTERS/Robert Galbraith

But Elon Musk took to social media on Tuesday night to set the record straight, telling New York Mag that "the choker is a bunch of spikes, not Tesla anything."

Us Weekly reports that the couple designed Grimes' dress together over a dinner date and commissioned a team to create the futuristic ensemble, according to an unnamed source. Musk wore a white tuxedo jacket and a collarless shirt.

Earlier Monday, Page Six described an unnamed source as saying Musk and Grimes have been "quietly dating." The gossip site said the pair met online about a month ago, after Musk saw on a joke about artificial intelligence that Grimes had made on Twitter and reached out.

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The two have not publicly confirmed their relationship.

Here's what people were saying online about choker:

—Shira Tarlo (@shiratarlo) May 8, 2018 —You Just Sank my Battlewig (@rossleonardy) May 8, 2018—kelsi (@eklsii) May 8, 2018

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