When Tesla CEO Elon Musk lamented the decline of the America’s birthrate in June, he made sure to point out that he was “doing [his] part haha.” That may be true, and even more so than we previously thought—according to an Insider report published Wednesday night, Musk had secret twins last year, bringing the tally of his brood to nine.
Insider reports that Musk welcomed twins on the down low with Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis, the director of operations and special projects at the company, last November, a month before he and Grimes had a baby they kept from the public. The outlet cited court documents, which list Musk as the father of the twins and Zilis and as the mother, filed by the couple in April seeking to change the children’s last name to “Musk” and establish “Zilis” as their middle name. According to the outlet, the petition was approved in early May. The documents had a court stamp and Musk’s signature, according to Insider.
In a separate report published on Thursday, CNN stated it had obtained a docket from a Travis County, Texas court confirming the name change petition filed by Musk and Zilis.
Gizmodo was not able to independently verify Insider and CNN’s claims. We reached out to Tesla, SpaceX, and Neuralink for confirmation and comment on Thursday morning but did not receive a response by the time of publication. Tesla has dissolved its PR department and rarely responds to media requests.
The twins would bring Musk’s total amount of children to nine. He has five kids from his first wife, Justine Wilson: a set of twins named Griffin and Vivian as well as the triplets Kai, Saxon, and Damian. Vivian filed to change her name in June, citing a desire to “no longer be related” to her father. Perhaps Musk’s most famous child is his firstborn boy with Grimes, which they named “X Æ A-12,” prompting confusion around the world over how to pronounce the lad’s name. In December, just a month after welcoming twins with Zilis, Grimes and Musk had another baby via a surrogate. Her name is “Y.”
Amid the media implosion over this latest bit of news, the Twitter account of the richest man in the world has remained silent. There are still many hours in the day, though.
