San Francisco: Tech billionaire Elon Musk secretly fathered twins in November 2021 with Shivon Zillis, a top executive at his brain-chip startup Neuralink, with his ex-girlfriend Grimes via surrogacy in December, according to media. A few weeks before welcoming the second child. Report.
With the newly reported twins, 51 year old Tesla CEO There are now nine known children.
According to court documents, oysters and zillis The Daily Mail, citing Insider, filed a petition in April to change the names of the twins “to have their father’s last name and their mother’s last name as part of their middle name”.
Ontario, Canada-born Zilis met Musk through OpenAI, the artificial intelligence (AI) research and deployment nonprofit Musk co-founded in 2015.
She studied economics and philosophy at Yale where she also played goalkeeper on the women’s ice hockey team.
In 2015, Zillis was on Forbes’ 30 under 30 list in the venture-capital category and in 2017, got a chance to use his AI expertise at Tesla.
Zillis is currently director of operations and special projects for Neuralink and has been roped in as one of the people Musk could tap to run Twitter Inc after its $44 billion acquisition deal.
In 2020, Zillis posted a tweet defending Musk over his decision to move Tesla out of California over Covid-19 restrictions.
Meanwhile, a recent report said SpaceX paid $250,000 to a flight attendant who accused Musk of sexual misconduct.
The alleged victim accused Musk of rubbing her leg without consent and offering to buy her a horse in exchange for an erotic massage.
According to a recent report, Musk reportedly “exposed his genitals” during the massage.
However, Musk denied the report, saying he needed more time to respond, adding that “there is more to this story”.
“If I was inclined to engage in sexual harassment, it is very unlikely to have come to light for the first time in my entire 30-year career,” Musk said in an email to Insider. The story was described as a “politically inspired hit” piece.