Elon Musk he has confirmed she welcomed a new baby earlier this year with Neuralink executive Shivon Zilisthe couple’s third child and Musk’s 12th child.
The business mogul, 52, said Page six His newest addition was by no means a “secret,” but he thought releasing a statement about the birth would have been a little “bizarre.”
“As for ‘secret dad,’ that’s also false,” he told the outlet. “All our friends and family know. Failing to issue a press release, which would be bizarre, does not mean ‘secret’.”
The baby, whose name or gender has not been revealed, is Musk’s 12th child and was born earlier this year, reports say. Before the birth, Musk already had two children with Zilis, 38, who is an executive at Musk’s brain-computer interface company, Neuralink.
The news of the tech entrepreneur’s 12th child was first reported in a Bloomberg article published on Friday that investigated Musk and his comments about birth rates.
In July 2022, it was reported that Musk welcomed two children with Zilis. Court documents obtained by Insider revealed that Musk and Zilis’ children were born in November 2021 — weeks before Musk and Grimes welcomed their second child.
Almost two years after the twins were born, it was revealed that their names were Strider and Azure.
In your biography Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson also confirmed in September 2023 that Musk and musician Grimes had a third son, named Techno Mechanius, who goes by Tau.
Grimes and Musk’s first child, a boy named X Æ A-Xii, or X, was born in 2020. In March 2022, they announced the birth of a girl, Exa Dark Sideræl Musk, nicknamed Y, who was born in December 2021 .
Musk has been married twice. He met his first wife, Canadian author Justine Wilson, while they were both 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, the firstborn died from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome when he was 10 weeks old.
“There is nothing worse than losing a child,” Musk said in an email in 2018, for a father who lost his son in a Tesla accident.
“My firstborn son died in my arms. I felt your last heartbeat,” he also wrote in X in 2022.
Wilson and Musk had twins, Griffin and Vivian, in 2004, and triplets, Kai, Saxon and Damian Musk, in 2006.
In June 2023, it was reported that Musk and Wilson’s teenage daughter received the name and gender change she requested. Their daughter identifies as a transgender woman, and in an April court filing in Los Angeles County Superior Court, she requested that her name reflect her new name. gender identity and cut all ties with Musk.
“I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape, or form,” the paperwork filed in Santa Monica said.
At the time, Wilson said she was “proud” of her daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson for making the decision to cut ties with Musk.
Musk, who is now the father of a total of 12 children, has long spoken of his belief that declining birth rates could lead to the collapse of civilization.
In 2022, the billionaire tweeted that “population collapse due to low birth rates is a much greater risk to civilization than global warming.”
He also expressed a similar sentiment about declining birth rates following the news that he had twins with Shivon Zilis.
“Doing my best to help with the underpopulation crisis. The collapse of the birth rate is by far the greatest danger facing civilization,” he tweeted, making light of the reports. “I hope you have big families and congratulations to those who already do!”
