in 2010 after a whirlwind ten-day romance. They divorced two years later, before remarrying in 2013.
“He was trying to avoid bankruptcy. Every day Elon would come home and say ‘that’s it,’” Riley said. “He was being ridiculed by the press.” Riley said of their first meeting: “My first impressions were that he was very sweet, he seemed quite shy.” “And I thought, OK, I’ll come back. And we did get into his hotel room…and he did just show me rocket videos.”
“I think because of my youth, I was relatively gung-ho about it. Essentially our home life was work. We were focused on the companies and the children.” Riley said she was “primed to say yes” to Elon’s marriage proposal after ten days together. He didn’t have a ring “so we shook hands on it and I said ‘Yes, I will do so.’”