Tesla CEO Elon Musk has confirmed that he welcomed his third child with Neuralink director Shivon Zilis earlier this year – making the tech mogul the father of at least 12 children.
Half of the $210 billion man’s children were born in the last five years.
His children include three with Zillis, three with Canadian pop star Grimes and five with his ex-wife Justine Wilson.
Musk, 52, a vocal “pronatalist” who has long maintained that the population is in decline and previously joked that he was doing his best to help the underpopulation crisis.
Although world birth rates are declining, the UN predicts that the global population will reach 10 billion by the end of the century.
Here’s everything you need to know about the very modern family created by the world’s second richest man.
Justine Wilson – Mother of Griffin, Vivian, Kai, Saxon, Damian and Nevada
Musk and his first wife, Justine Wilson, had twins Griffin and Vivian in 2004, after the couple had a son named Nevada in 2002, who died at 10 weeks of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
While Musk has rarely mentioned his loss, he expressed his sympathies in an email chain with the father of an 18-year-old boy who died in a fiery Tesla crash in 2018.
“There is nothing worse than losing a child,” Musk wrote, according to Bloomberg.
“My firstborn son died in my arms. I felt his heart beat.”
Musk’s child Vivian came out as transgender in 2022 and legally changed her name from Xavier Musk to include her mother’s last name.
In court, Vivian said she “no longer lives with and wants nothing to do with my biological father in any way, shape or form.”
Five years after their twins were born, the couple had triplet boys, Kai, Saxon and Damian, in 2006 using in vitro fertilization (IVF).
Musk and Wilson divorced in 2008.
After divorcing Wilson, Musk married actress Talulah Riley in 2010.
The pair divorced in 2012, remarried in 2013 and divorced for the last time in 2016.
The actor and the tech guru never had children together.
Grimes – Mother to Him X Æ A-Xii, Exa Dark Sideræl and Techno
Musk and the Oblivion singer’s first son, X Æ A-Xii, was born in May 2020.
In December 2021, the couple quietly welcomed their daughter, Exa Dark Sideræl via a surrogate.
Their son, originally named X Æ A-12, had to legally change his name to follow California birth certificate laws, although his parents simply refer to him as “X.”
His name is pronounced “X Ash A Twelve,” Musk explained on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast shortly after his birth, giving Grimes credit for coming up with the majority of the name.
“My partner is the one who got the name out there the most,” he said.
“It’s just X, the letter X, and then ‘Æ’ is like pronounced, ‘Ash’ and then, ‘A-12’ is my contribution.”
The couple separated in September 2021 before getting back together around the time of the birth of their daughter, Exa Dark Sideræl, whose name is pronounced “Sigh-deer-ee-el” but given the nickname “Y”.
Last September it was confirmed that the pair had a third child, a son named Techno Mechanicus, whom they named ‘Tau’.
Grimes, whose real name is Claire Elise Boucher, opened up about their third child in an X postwriting, in part, “I’d love to tell you how cool Techno is, but my priority is keeping my babies out of the public eye.”
“Please respect this at this time,” she added.
In September 2023, Grimes filed a lawsuit to establish parental rights to their three children following her split from Musk. .
Shivon Zilis – Mother of Strider, Azure and the unnamed newborn
In November 2021 Musk and Shivon Zilis welcomed twins Strider and Azure.
Musk and Zilis, who works for the mogul at his brain chip company Neuralink, reportedly had the twins through in-vitro fertilization.
The couple asked a Texas court to allow the children “to have their father’s last name and contain their mother’s last name as part of their middle name,” Business Insider reported in 2022.
The pair welcomed their third child – whose name has not been released – sometime earlier this year, it was revealed on Saturday.
While the public just learned of the baby’s birth, Musk told Page Six on Sunday that the baby was no secret to their friends and family.
“As for ‘born in secret,’ that’s also false,” he says.
“All our friends and family know. “Failure to issue a press release, which would be strange, does not mean ‘secret’.”
Musk and Zilis have not shared the gender of the baby.