Elon Musk had twins last year with one of his top executives, Insider says

SpaceX proprietor and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks throughout a discussion with legendary video game designer Todd Howard (not pictured) at the E3 gaming convention in Los Angeles, California, U.S., June 13, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Blake

July 7 (Reuters) – Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) Chief Executive Elon Musk and Shivon Zilis, a major government at his mind-chip startup Neuralink, experienced twins in November 2021, Insider described.

In April, Musk and Zilis submitted a petition to alter the identify of the twins to “have their father’s past identify” and contain their mother’s past title as aspect of their center title, Insider said on Wednesday, citing court paperwork.

A courtroom docket summary on the Westlaw lawful investigate service confirmed a judge signed an “Buy Shifting the Names Of Several Kids” on May well 11 just after the identify alter petition from Musk and Zilis designed on April 25 this calendar year.

On Thursday, Musk tweeted, “Undertaking my most effective to aid the underpopulation disaster.” He did not refer to the Insider report.

“A collapsing beginning level is the major risk civilization faces by much,” he said.

The twins deliver Musk’s complete rely of kids to nine. Musk shares two youngsters with Canadian singer Grimes, and a further five kids with his ex-spouse Canadian creator Justine Wilson.

Musk and Grimes welcomed their second kid by way of surrogate in December, a month just after Musk and Zilis reportedly had twins.

The billionaire stated that he and Grimes have been “semi-separated,” in accordance to a report by Site Six in September final calendar year.

Musk and Zilis did not quickly reply to Reuters’ requests for opinions.

The report, without the need of citing a resource, mentioned Zilis has been floated as one particular of the individuals Musk could have run Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) just after his $44 billion acquisition offer.

Zilis, 36, is determined on her LinkedIn profile as director of operations and particular jobs at Neuralink, which is co-launched and chaired by Musk, 51. She started operating at the business in Could 2017, the same month she was named a challenge director in artificial intelligence at Tesla, where she labored right until 2019.

She also serves as a board member at artificial-intelligence study agency OpenAI, which was co-launched by Musk, in accordance to her profile on LinkedIn.

Reporting by Akriti Sharma in Bengaluru and Hyunjoo Jin in San Francisco and Mike Scarcella in Silver Spring, Maryland Editing by Sandra Maler and Howard Goller

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