Elon Musk just cannot keep himself away from the limelight and scandals, and this one will surely pique your interest. As you all know, Mr Musk has a bunch of children but we can add two more to the brood.?
According to a report by Insider, the Tesla CEO has allegedly fathered twins with one of his company executives. We told you - this man loves controversy. As per court documents, the tech billionaire has discreetly added more children to his clan - he allegedly had his eighth and ninth kid with Shivon Zilis, an employee of Neuralink - the company that is looking into human brain microchip technology.?
The Insider report further claims that the court documents reveal that Musk and Zilis filed a petition to change the names of the twins. The alleged parents wanted the twins to 'have their father's last name and keep their mother's last name as part of their middle name'.?
Ms Zilis is currently employed as director of operations and special projects for Neuralink. The report also added that she met the SpaceX owner while working with OpenAI - the artificial intelligence research-and-deployment nonprofit Musk cofounded in 2015.?
She was reportedly moved from OpenAI to Tesla in 2017 to work as a project director. According to the report's claims, the birth of the twins brings the billionaire's total count to nine children.?
Elon Musk lost his first child to SIDS in 2002. Elon and his then-wife Justine Wilson welcome twins Griffin and Xavier Musk in 2004. Xavier has now legally changed her name to Vivian Jenna Wilson.?
According to a TMZ report, Vivian also wants to be legally recognised as female. She listed the reason for her name change as: "Gender Identity and the fact that I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form."?
In 2006, triplets followed - Kai, Saxon and Damian. Musk and Wilson ended their eight-year-long marriage in 2008 and currently share custody of their five children.
Musk started dating musician Grimes in 2018 after a series of failed relationships - in May 2020, the couple welcomed their first child whose name made headlines - X ? A-12.In December 2021, Grimes gave birth to Exa Dark Sider?l Musk, and the couple separated in 2022. The name of his alleged eighth and ninth children are unknown.? ?
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