Insider reported that Elon Musk had twins in November with Shivon Zilis, head of operations and special projects at Neuralink, citing court records pertaining to the children.
According to the redacted court documents published by Insider, Musk, 51, and Zilis, 36, requested that the names of their children be changed to reflect Musk’s last name.
Insider reported that the petition’s request, which said that their names should “include their father’s last name and have their mother’s last name as part of their middle name,” was approved earlier this year.
The twins arrived just before the arrival of Exa Dark Siderael Musk, Musk’s second kid with musician Grimes, who gave birth to a daughter through a surrogate in December. Musk, the world’s richest man with more than $200 billion in assets and the father of 10 children, has been a vocal supporter of increasing the birth rate. In a May tweet, he stated that the U.S. birth rate has been “below min sustainable levels for 50 years.”
On Thursday morning, after Insider’s report, Musk tweeted that he was “Doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis,” claiming that a “collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far.”
In another tweet, Musk said, “I hope you have big families, and congrats to those who already do!”
According to her LinkedIn profile, Zilis, a Yale alumna, started working with Neuralink in 2017. Her bio refers to the Creative Destruction Lab at the University of Toronto as an incubator for machine learning. She also sits on the boards of the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence and the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute.
Musk and Canadian author Justine Wilson were wed from 2000 until 2008 and had six kids together. According to Wilson in a Marie Claire article, their first kid passed away from SIDS at 10 weeks. The couple then gave birth to twins and triplets.
One of the twins requested a name and gender change earlier this year, which was approved. Vivian Jenna Wilson stated in court documents that she “no longer lives[s] with or wishes to be associated with my biological father in any way, shape, or form.”
Musk and musician Grimes have two kids. Their first child, a male named X A-12, was born in March 2020, and their second child, a girl named Zilis, was born in December, only a few weeks following his twins with Zilis.
Source: cbsnews.com