Information broke this week that Elon Musk had secretly fathered twins with Shivon Zilis – a high-ranking government at Musk’s neurotechnology agency Neuralink.
The youngsters have been born in November 2021, simply weeks earlier than the Tesla CEO welcomed his second little one through surrogate along with his on-again off-again accomplice Grimes, per court docket paperwork obtained by Enterprise Insider.
Shivon Zilis, 36, is at present the director of operations and particular tasks at Neuralink, a Musk-led agency which designs laptop implants to permit folks’s brains to manage digital units.
In response to her LinkedIn profile, Zilis is a Yale-educated synthetic intelligence specialist. In 2016, Zilis joined OpenAI – the bogus intelligence analysis nonprofit Musk helped present in 2015 – the place she later joined the board of administrators.
Zilis then joined Musk at his flagship firm, Tesla, as a undertaking director engaged on the automaker’s laptop chips and Autopilot program.
Though court docket paperwork present the pair listed the identical dwelling deal with in Austin, Texas, Zilis is definitely native to Canada – equally to Musk’s ex-wife Justine Wilson and his former accomplice Grimes.
Whereas the SpaceX founder was born in South Africa and has lived a lot of his life within the states, his mom Maye Musk was born in Saskatchewan, Canada. Musk additionally spent a time period in Canada the place he attended Queen’s College in Ontario. There, he met his first spouse, Canadian creator Justine Wilson.
The 2 tied the knot in 2000 and two years later they welcomed their first little one, Nevada Alexander Musk, who died from Sudden Toddler Loss of life Syndrome at 10 weeks outdated. Musk and Wilson went on to have a set of twins – Griffin and Vivian – in 2004, and a set of triplets – Kai, Saxon, and Damian – in 2006. In 2008, Musk filed for divorce from Wilson.
After a string of relationships with British-born actress Talulah Riley and American actress Amber Heard, Musk started courting Canadian musician Grimes in 2018. The singer – whose actual identify is Claire Boucher – was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia. Earlier than the discharge of her breakout album Visions in 2012, Boucher attended McGill College in Montreal.
In Might 2020, Grimes gave delivery to her first little one with Musk, a son named X AE A-XII. Though Musk revealed final September that he and Grimes had “semi-separated” on account of conflicting schedules and places, the pair surprisingly welcomed their second little one in December 2021, a daughter named Exa Darkish Sideræl Musk through surrogate.
The delivery of Musk’s ninth little one got here simply weeks after he had fathered twins with Shivon Zilis.
Whereas the billionaire businessman is thought for having a big household, Musk beforehand admitted that he performs a a lot smaller function in his youngsters’s lives when they’re very younger. When requested by the New York Occasions the way it feels to be father once more after the delivery of his son X AE A-XII, Musk mentioned, “Proper now there’s not a lot I can do,” and referred to infants as “simply consuming and pooping machines”.
“Grimes has a a lot larger function than me proper now. When the child will get older, there will probably be extra of a task for me,” he mentioned.
In April of this yr, Musk and Wilson’s 18-year-old daughter – previously Xavier Musk – had been granted a reputation and gender change which she requested from the Los Angeles County Superior court docket. “I now not reside with or want to be associated to my organic father in any manner, form or type,” the petition acknowledged.
On the time, Wilson mentioned she was “proud” of her daughter’s choice to sever ties together with her organic father. In response to the petition, the 18-year-old will tackle her mom’s maiden identify and formally be referred to as Vivian Jenna Wilson.
