In addition to his ever-growing business portfolio, Elon Musk has continued to grow his family.
The 52-year-old founder of Tesla confirmed the arrival of baby number 12 in a statement to Page six on June 23. According to the outlet, he and Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis, 38, welcomed their third child together earlier this year. However, Musk joked that the new addition was far from “secret.”
“As for 'secret father,' that's false too,” he said. Page six. “All our friends and family know it. Not issuing a press release, which would be strange, does not mean 'secret'.”
The name and sex of the new baby have not been publicly revealed.
This is the businessman's third child with Zilis, who works as Musk's director of operations and special projects at the neurotechnology firm. In July 2022, it was reported that the couple, who are not in a romantic relationship, secretly welcomed twins in November 2021 through in vitro fertilization (IVF). The children were born weeks before the billionaire welcomed his second child with his on-again, off-again partner, Grimes.
Musk's biographer, author Walter Isaacson, later revealed that the couple named their twins, now two years old, Strider and Azure. Isaacson not only revealed the twins' names in his biography Elon Muskpublished in September 2023, but also confirmed that the SpaceX founder welcomed a third child with Canadian musician Grimes.
His son, named Techno Mechanius, supposedly goes by the name Tau. At the time, the baby was Musk's 10th child with three women. Musk and Grimes, whose real name is Claire Boucher, welcomed their first child, a boy named X Æ A-Xii or second child, a girl named Exa. Dark Sideræl Musk, nicknamed Y – in an interview with vanity fair. The media confirmed that their daughter was born in December 2021.
Grimes and Musk dated intermittently from 2018 to 2022. In September 2021, Musk said. Page six that they were “semi-separated.” Meanwhile, she described her relationship with the businessman to vanity fair as “very fluid.” However, when the article was published, Grimes tweeted that she and Musk had “broken up again” since the interview, but that the tech mogul remains “my best friend and the love of my life.”
Musk has been married twice before. He met his first wife, Canadian author Justine Wilson, while the couple were studying at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Musk and Wilson married in 2000 and welcomed their first child, Nevada Alexander Musk, two years later. Tragically, his firstborn died of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) when he was 10 weeks old.
Wilson and Musk had a set of twins in 2004 and triplets in 2006. They separated in 2008 after eight years of marriage. In a 2012 opinion piece for Marie ClaireWilson said she felt like “a first wife” during her marriage to Musk. She wrote that Musk “constantly observed the ways in which he found me lacking.”
In April 2022, one of Musk's twins, now 20 years old, came out as transgender when she submitted an application to change her name and gender identity, as she no longer wished “to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form.” According to a TMZ According to a report, Musk's daughter changed her name to Vivian Jenna Wilson, adopting her mother's maiden name.
At the time, Wilson said she was “proud” of her daughter Vivian for making the decision to cut ties with Musk.
In 2010, Musk married Talulah Riley, the British actress and author who appeared in the 2005 film. Pride and prejudice. Riley played the role of Mary, the middle daughter of the Bennet family.
Riley, who recently married love in reality The star, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, was married to Musk twice: the first from 2010 to 2012 and the second from 2013 to 2016. In an interview with The independent, Riley said of the couple's decision to remarry: “I obviously understand that it seems strange. But that logic made sense at the time.”
The former couple does not have children together.
As for whether he plans to add more to his brood, Musk has never shied away from making comments about procreation and population decline. In August 2022, the owner of X tweeted that “demographic collapse due to low birth rates is a much greater risk to civilization than global warming.”
In July 2022, Musk echoed a similar sentiment about declining birth rates after it emerged that he had secretly had twins with Zilis.
“Doing everything possible to help the depopulation crisis. A birth rate collapse is by far the greatest danger facing civilization,” she tweeted, downplaying the reports. “I hope you have large families and congratulations to those who already have them!”
