Elon Musk quietly had another child with an executive at one of his companies.
On Sunday, the billionaire confirmed the news to Page Six, telling the outlet that the child was not a “secret” to those close to him.
“As for ‘secretly fathered,’ that’s also false,” Musk told the outlet. “All of our friends and family know this. Not issuing a press release, which would be weird, doesn’t mean ‘secret’.”
This is her third child with Zilis. The billionaire quietly had twins with the Neuralink executive in 2021, according to court documents showing Musk filed a motion to change the twins’ names to “have their father’s last name and contain the last name of their mother in their middle name.”
It’s unclear how many children Musk has in total, but he has 11 living children who are publicly known: five with his first wife, author Justine Musk, three with musician Grimes, and three with Zilis.
Musk co-founded Neuralink and serves as its co-CEO. The company develops brain-computer technology. News of another child with Zilis comes weeks after The Wall Street Journal reported that Musk had “boundary-blurring relationships” with female employees at the company. EspaceX.
A former SpaceX employee accused Musk of asking her to have his babies on multiple occasions, according to the report. The Journal said she declined the offer and later said she was denied a raise. The outlet reported that she ultimately left the company and received a severance package worth more than $1 million.
Musk has for years publicly expressed his views on the risks of declining birth rates and said he considers the issue the greatest threat to civilization. He also said he encourages his friends to have more children. A day after Business Insider announced that he had fathered twins with Zilis, he posted on X that he was doing his best “to help fight the underpopulation crisis.”
Musk isn’t the only tech mogul who wants to reproduce to save humanity. The ideology has gained traction among some powerful figures who believe they can counter the risks of declining birth rates by producing genetically superior offspring.
Zilis and Musk did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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