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- rocket + electric car.” From the search results, her fa-
ther thought Elon was happily married with five children.
“You’ve been picked up by a playboy,” he said. “Text that
man, you’re not going for dinner with him, and he’s a
bastard.” But Riley called a friend who said Elon was
divorced, so she decided to meet Elon again for dinner.^129
Elon and Riley married in 2010 at the same cathedral as
where Madonna and Guy Ritchie married. Riley is a British
actress, born in 1985, and had previously acted in the movie
Pride and Prejudice. When Riley played Annabelle Fritton
in the movieSt. Trinian’s 2, Elon sent her 500 red roses
to the set. He also sent every other woman on the set a
bouquet so they wouldn’t feel jealous.^129
During the divorce between Elon and Justine, Riley
and Justine began to like each other in a friendly way.
“She is, by all accounts, a lovely, bright, and very young
person, and better fitted to my ex-husband’s lifestyle and
personality than I ever was,” Justine said. “I would rather
live out the French-movie version of events (the ex-wife
and new fiancee become friends and various philosophies
are pondered) than the American version (one is good and
one is psycho, there’s a big catfight sequence and someone
gets thrown off a balcony) - the latter of which seems vastly
overrated.”^180
Elon and Riley’s marriage ended in 2012. “@rileytalu-
lah It was an amazing four years. I will love you forever.
You will make someone very happy one day,” Elon wrote in
a Twitter message. It was Riley who had filed the divorce.^117