By John Ikani
Elon Musk had twins in November with Shivon Zilis, an executive at Musk’s company Neuralink, according to court records obtained by Insider on Wednesday, bringing the number of known living children fathered by the world’s richest man to nine.
Musk, 51, is co-founder and CEO of Neuralink, a company that develops neural implants with the eventual goal of connecting human brains with machines, while Zilis has been director of operations and special projects at the company since 2017.
Zilis, 36, has worked in top roles in several Musk ventures, serving as a board member of OpenAI starting in 2020 and project director at Tesla from May 2017 to August 2019.
The twins were reportedly born just weeks before Musk and his former partner Claire Boucher, better known by the stage name Grimes, had a second child through a surrogate last year.
In April, Musk and Zilis filed a petition to change the name of the twins to “have their father’s last name” and contain their mother’s last name as part of their middle name, the report said, citing court documents.
A month later, a Texas judge approved the petition, the report added.
It also said Zilis has recently been floated as one of the people Mr Musk could tap to run Twitter Inc after his $44 billion deal acquisition.
Musk has repeatedly warned of what he claims is a looming crisis of population decline—and endorsed bringing more children into the world.
The news of the twins’ arrival brings Mr Musk’s total count of children to nine. Mr Musk shares two children with Canadian singer Grimes, and other five kids with his ex-wife, Canadian author Justine Wilson.
Musk rarely shares photos of his children, but he tweeted a picture Friday of him and four of his sons meeting Pope Francis.
Honored to meet @Pontifex yesterday pic.twitter.com/sLZY8mAQtd
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 2, 2022
