Elon Musk secretly had twins with an executive of one of his companies

Elon Musk (51 years old), CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, secretly had twins last November with Shivon Zilis (36), an executive at another of his companies, Neuralink, as reported by the US media

after having access to court documents.

The papers have revealed that in April Musk and Zilis petitioned a court in Austin, Texas, the twins' birthplace, for a change in the names of the newborns so that they had the father's last name and the mother's last name. mother was part of her given name.

An Austin judge approved his request in May.

The birth of the twins occurred just a few weeks before Elon Musk and singer-songwriter Grimes (34 years old) announced the birth of their second daughter, Exa Dark Sideræl Musk, through a surrogacy.

It happened just a few months after Elon Musk himself had confirmed in the American media

that he and Grimes were

-separated , but raising their first child, X Æ A-12, together.

Musk, a strong advocate of the need to bring more children into the world, is the father of nine recognized children.

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Musk is the richest person in the world, with an estimated fortune of $277.3 billion.

He is the CEO of four of his companies: Tesla, a manufacturer of electric vehicles;

SpaceX, a spacecraft manufacturer;

The Boring Company, a tunnel construction company;

and Neuralink, specialized in the development of implantables or

for the brain, where Shivon Zilis works.

describes Zilis as "the rising star within the Musk empire."

Born in Markham, Ontario, Canada, Zilis earned a BA in Economics and Philosophy in 2008 from the prestigious Yale University.

She began her career at multinational IBM before joining venture capital firm Bloomberg Beta, where she led data-driven investing efforts.

magazine's 30 Under 30 list of young talent

in the venture capital category in 2015, when she was 28 years old.

Elon Musk and Grimes at the May 2018 gala at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Kevin Mazur/MG18 (Getty Images for The Met Museum/)

Zilos and Musk met through OpenAI, the non-profit Artificial Intelligence research company founded by Musk himself.

There, Zilis was named a member of the Board of Directors, becoming the youngest person to hold this position within the company.

In 2017, Zilis started working at Tesla as a project manager, where she developed the autopilot functions of the vehicles.

She currently holds the position of director of operations and special projects at Neuralink.

reports

, Zilis and Musk share the same intellectual passions "including space travel, transportation, and most of all, artificial intelligence."

In addition, they share a sense of humor: "both tweet puns about artificial intelligence and make ironic references to Musk's favorite cryptocurrency, dogecoin."

Zilis is also a strong defender of Musk on social networks, where the richest man in the world often generates ambivalence due to his continuous opinions.

The news of his two new children comes just a few weeks after Vivian Jenna Wilson, the first of Musk's five children with writer Justine Musk, expressed her desire to erase her father's last name so as not to relate to him.

"I do not want to be related to my biological father in any way," the young woman expressed through a petition to change her name and surname in the Los Angeles County Superior Court, located in the town of Santa Monica (United States). ).

The young woman, who recently turned 18, requested a name change for her as well as a new birth certificate reflecting her new gender identity.