Grimes and producer Elijah Weinkauf have “been together for some time” before their red carpet debut, a source exclusively tells Us.
Grimes, 38, and Weinkauf, 26, attended the premiere of Blade Runner 2099 together on Thursday, November 12, holding hands as they posed for photos.
Neither Grimes nor Weinkauf had previously confirmed their relationship status, but the source tells Us the duo had DJed together “in public.”
“Elijah is very shy though, so they’ve kept it private,” the insider says. “But you can only keep such a happy romance a secret for so long. Some of the people backstage at her recent show at Singers [in Brooklyn] started to ask questions if they were together.”
Per the source, Weinkauf is “super supportive” of Grimes’ career, and they often “stay up late” talking about music history, AI safety, technology regulations, anime and politics.
“He’s only into art — he’s not political at all,” the source tells Us. “He’s helped Grimes return to form with her art. After all the drama of [the] past few years, she had gone into her shell. He’s helped bring her out of that.”
Grimes was in a relationship with Elon Musk from 2018 to 2022, and the exes have since gone back and forth about coparenting arrangements for their three children. (Musk, 55, also has 11 other kids from various relationships.)
“I, unfortunately, do not control the internet and cannot wipe this from the internet. I have tried begging the public and my kids’ dad to keep them offline,” she tweeted in March 2025, claiming she urged Musk not to show their kids’ faces publicly. “The state of my children’s lives being public is of grave concern to me and I think about how to solve this every day. It’s insane to me that there’s no way to deal with this.”
She added at the time, “I would hope there was some law that would allow a parent to veto small children from living public lives, but I don’t even trust the law to help me now if I tried to invoke it tbh. We are in the Wild West of information content and the dismantling of privacy and it’s very concerning.”
Musk did not immediately address Grimes’ accusations. She has since remained focused on balancing her family with her career. According to the insider, Weinkauf produced Grimes’ new album, Psyopera, under the name VADAKIN.
“The new album is one of her best ever,” the source says.
