Elon Musk, The world’s richest man has been revealed to now be the father of no fewer than nine children, two of them twins which had been birthed last year by Shivon Zilis, the woman who is in charge of one of his companies.
It had also been reported that Elon Musk had a set of twins with Zilis — a top executive at Neuralink which is the brain chip company Musk co-founded and chairs, court documents filed in Texas, revealed.
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The twins were born in November and only a few weeks later in December, Elon and Grimes had also welcomed their second baby via surrogate.
No word on the twins’ first names, but court documents were reportedly filed earlier this year by Elon and Shivon requesting the children’s names be changed to include Zilis as a middle name, and Musk as the last. A judge already approved the request.
Elon and Shivon had actually met back in 2015, and she had been rising through the ranks at his companies including a stint at Tesla before going to Neuralink.
There’s speculation Elon might pick her to run Twitter if his deal to buy the social media giant eventually goes through. Elon has five kids with ex-wife Justine Wilson, 2 with Grimes and now 2 with Shivon.
Elon Musk had previously ordered a pause in hiring in all Tesla factories worldwide, as he also planned to do away with about 10% of the salaried staff.
A message sent to executives on Thursday laid out his concerns, his “super bad feeling” about the economy.
The dire outlook came two days after the billionaire told staff to return to the workplace or leave and adds to a growing chorus of warnings from business leaders about the risks of recession.
Tesla shares fell 9% in U.S. trade on Friday after the Reuters report.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq (.IXIC) was down about 2%.