Grimes has yet to break her social media silence, amid reports that her ex-boyfriend quietly welcomed twins to Shivon Zilis, an executive at his artificial intelligence company Neuralink, weeks before the arrival of his second child with the singer.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Musk, 51, is now known to have nine living children — five with his ex-wife, Justine Wilson, including twins and triplets; two with Zilis, and two more with singer Grimes, real name Claire Boucher.
Early in their marriage, Musk and Wilson welcomed son Nevada Alexander in 2002. He died at 10 weeks old of SIDS or SIDS.
In court documents filed in Austin, Texas and obtained by: Business Insiderit is mentioned that the baby twins were born in November 2021 in the state capital. Musk and Grimes welcomed their daughter, Exa Dark Sideræl, via surrogate in December 2021.
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Musk and his now ex-girlfriend Grimes also share 2-year-old son X Æ A-Xii. The birth of their daughter was kept silent, will not be publicly revealed until months later†
Grimes didn’t post on Instagram since June 20, she promoted her music in a post that was also shared on Twitter on the same date. She returned to Twitter on July 2 to share a one-word response to another tweet, though she still liked several tweets since then until Wednesday.
The court documents, dated April 25, 2022, were filed by the parents who stated that they “would like the children to have their father’s last name and their mother’s last name as part of their middle name.”
The request for the name change was reportedly approved by a judge in May.
Per the guardCanadian-born Zilis, 36, studied economics and philosophy at Yale before joining IBM and then a venture capital fund Bloomberg beta. She was featured on Forbes30 Under 30 for its reputation as a rising star in the field of artificial intelligence.
Zilis’ LinkedIn profile, which appears to have been deleted since news of the twins’ arrival broke on Wednesday, lists her as the director of operations and special projects at Neuralink, which is working on creating human-machine interfaces. She started at Neuralink in May 2017.
news week has reached out to representatives for Musk, Neuralink and Grimes for comment.
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Musk’s family life made headlines earlier in 2022 when it was reported that one of his children is with ex-wife Wilson trying to break free from her fatherwho is the richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of $219 billion.
Court documents filed in California in April show Musk’s child has petitioned for a new name to reflect their new gender and sever ties with Musk because she doesn’t want any family from him in any way. to be.
The 18-year-old’s new name is Vivian Jenna Wilson, as she takes her mother’s name.
Musk, who earlier dated Amber Heardonce joked about gender identity, tweeting in July 2020, “Pronouns suck.”
Are at the time comments got huge comments onlinewhile his then-partner Grimes also replied in a since-deleted tweet: “I love you but please turn off your phone or give me a [call]† I cannot support hate. Please stop this. I know this isn’t your heart.”
Later that year, Musk was again criticized for sharing a meme that seemingly made fun of people posting their pronouns in their online bios. To clarify his stance, Musk tweeted on Dec. 16, 2020, “I definitely support trans, but all these pronouns are an aesthetic nightmare.”
He then pointed to a tweet sent by Tesla in 2017 emphasized that the company had achieved a perfect score for “LGBTQ equality” for the fourth year in a row.