Elon Musk becomes a dad for the 12th time
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Shivon Zilis, director of special projects at Elon Musk’s company Neuralink, and the Tesla CEO have welcomed their third child together.
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Musk, 52, who is now a father of 12, recently confirmed the news of the birth to Page Six.
The baby was born earlier in 2024, but with the public only hearing about the news now, Musk argues that it wasn’t a secret.
All our friends and family know. Failure to issue a press release, which would be bizarre, does not mean 'secret'.
The name and sex of the baby has not yet been revealed.
Musk and Zilis are also parents to a set of two-year-old twins, Azure and Strider, who were conceived through IVF.
Zilis has openly spoken about being the mother to three of the tech billionaire's children:
He really wants smart people to have kids, so he encouraged me to. If the choice is between an anonymous sperm donor or doing it with the person you admire most in the world, for me that was a pretty f**king easy decision. I can't possibly think of genes I would prefer for my children.
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Clearly, he takes this very seriously.
Musk has fathered six children with his ex-wife Justine Wilson Musk and three with Canadian singer Grimes (real name Claire Boucher).
It was revealed in Walter Isaacson's biography of Musk that he had "secretly" welcomed a third child with his ex, Grimes, in 2023. Continuing the tradition of unique names, brother X Æ A-Xii and sister Exa Dark Sideræl Musk were joined by little Techno Mechanicus, nicknamed Tau.
After some drama, Grimes made a statement on X where she mentioned Tau for the first time:
Hey, I wud prefer to not breathe any more life into this current press cycle but I want to de-escalate the narrative atm.
— 𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ (@Grimezsz) September 10, 2023
I spoke with Shivon at length finally, which was long overdue. This wasn't her fault, plz don't be angry at her! We respect each other a lot and we're…
It seems that the mothers and Musk are content with the arrangement they have and they are one big, happy family.
The stresses of being a parent have not affected his sense of humour yet:
Whoa, I just realized that raising a kid is basically 18 years of prompt engineering 🤯
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 16, 2024
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