Shivon Zilis

Elon Musk quietly welcomed twins with one of his top executives, Shivon Zilis last year, just weeks before his child with Grimes was born.

“I think just doing what I’ve done with my other kids.” Nevada tragically died of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, at only 10 weeks. Business Insider reports that Musk, 51, and Zilis, 36, filed a petition to change the twins’ names in order to “have their father’s last name and contain their mother’s last name as part of their middle name.”

Elon Musk and Shivon Zilis, a top executive at his neurotechnology firm Neuralink, secretly had twins in November of 2021, according to court documents ...

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Musk's nine children include pair born to Shivon Zilis, who works at his artificial intelligence company.

According to Insider, Zilis has “been floated” to run the social media site should the deal go through. Neuralink called the claims “misleading”. Zilis reportedly gave birth in November 2021, weeks before Musk and Boucher had their second child via a surrogate.

Congratulations are apparently in order for Elon Musk: The Tesla chief executive had twins in November with Shivon Zilis, a top executive at his company ...

Neither she nor Musk responded to a request for comment from the outlet. Earlier this year, he tweeted a screenshot of a Wall Street Journal demographic illustrating the declining U.S. birth rate. Her existence was also kept secret until March this year, when a Vanity Fair reporter sent to profile Grimes heard the “lone cry” of a baby upstairs. The twins were reportedly born just “weeks” before the SpaceX founder and musician Grimes had a baby daughter via surrogate. An expert in artificial intelligence, Zilis met Musk, 51, in 2015. Court filings obtained by the outlet showed that Musk and Zilis filed a petition to change their children’s names to “have their father’s last name and contain their mother’s last name as part of their middle name” in April. One month later, a Texas judge approved the petition.

Court documents show that Elon Musk and a 36-year-old Neuralink executive, Shivon Zilis, are the parents of 8-month-old twins. Musk now has nine known ...

(She later defined "The Mission" as "sustainable energy, making humanity a multiplanetary species and the preservation of consciousness." The day the article was published, she tweeted, "Me and E have broken up *again* since the writing of this article haha, but he's my best friend and the love of my life, and my life and art are forever dedicated to The Mission now." Musk and Amber Heard — who dated for about a year in 2016 — may also have frozen embryos together. As he wrote in a 2017 paper published in the academic journal New Space, he sees a human presence on the red planet as a safeguard against "some eventual extinction event." Replacement-level fertility, or the average number of children a woman would need to have in her lifetime in order for a generation to replace itself, is 2.1. In 2020, as The Journal pointed out, the total fertility rate in the United States was down to 1.64, though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that in 2021 the number of births in the US rose for the first time in seven years. In response to a tweet in 2021 praising him for his large family, he wrote: "I'm trying to set a good example! We see each other all the time ... We just have our own thing going on, and I don't expect other people to understand it." Since the beginning of 2022, the mogul has tweeted more than a dozen times about population issues. Zilis lived in San Francisco before buying a home in a gated community in Austin in August, about three months before the twins were born. Today she holds the title of director of operations and special projects for Neuralink, where Musk is a co-CEO. She previously worked as a project director in the CEO's office. The order was approved by a judge in Austin, Texas, this May. (Insider is withholding the children's names to protect their privacy.) The twins were born weeks before Musk and Claire Boucher, the musician who performs as Grimes, had their second child via surrogate in December. In 2017, Zilis moved to Tesla, where she was a project director, deploying her AI expertise on the Autopilot and chip-design teams.

Today, Zilis holds the title of director of operations and special projects for Neuralink, where Musk is a co-CEO. The outlet also says that Zilis has recently ...

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The babies were reportedly born just a few weeks before his daughter with Grimes arrived.

Musk and Grimes split last year after three years together but reunited in some capacity after welcoming their daughter. It is not known what the twins' names are, but they were reportedly born in November 2021, a few weeks before Musk and singer Grimes welcomed their daughter Exa Dark Sideræl, via surrogate in December. Business Insider reported on court documents that said the 51-year-old SpaceX and Tesla CEO and Neuralink's Shivon Zilis, 36, filed a petition to change their children's names in order to "have their father's last name and contain their mother's last name as part of their middle name".

Elon Musk and Shivon Zilis, the project director at his Neuralink company, welcomed twins in November 2021, court documents reveal.

"Gender Identity and the fact that I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form," she wrote, according to court documents obtained by PEOPLE. "Please look at the numbers –– if people don't have more children, civilization is going to crumble, mark my words." After welcoming the twins, Musk is now a father of 10.

In April, the duo filed a petition for the twins to have Musk as their last name.

Zilis, 36, is identified on her LinkedIn profile as director of operations and special projects at Neuralink, which is co-founded and chaired by Musk, 51. Musk shares two children with Canadian singer Grimes, and other five kids with his ex-wife Canadian author Justine Wilson. Zilis, 36, is identified on her LinkedIn profile as director of operations and special projects at Neuralink, which is co-founded and chaired by Musk, 51. Musk shares two children with Canadian singer Grimes, and other five kids with his ex-wife Canadian author Justine Wilson. In April, Musk and Zilis filed a petition to change the name of the twins to "have their father's last name" and contain their mother's last name as part of their middle name, the report said, citing court documents. In April, Musk and Zilis filed a petition to change the name of the twins to "have their father's last name" and contain their mother's last name as part of their middle name, the report said, citing court documents.

Apart from the twins with Shivon Zilis, Elon Musk shares two children with Canadian singer Claire 'Grimes' Boucher and another five with his ex-wife ...

Musk saw his fortunes plummet by $62 billion in the period Notably, she was named a project director in artificial intelligence at Tesla in the same month. Shivon Zilis is a top executive in Neuralink which is Musk's brain-chip startup.

Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO and world's richest man, welcomed twins last year with an executive at one of his other companies, Neuralink, ...

(The two, who were married from 2000 to 2008, lost their first child; Justine, an author, famously wrote about what it was like to be married to, and divorce, Musk for Marie Claire magazine The outlet obtained court filings pertaining to changing the children's legal names to incorporate the Musk last name, and Zilis' as part of the middle names. Zilis did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Shivon Zilis, a top executive at his brain-chip start-up Neuralink, had twins in November 2021, a report said.

Zilis, 36, is identified on her LinkedIn profile as director of operations and special projects at Neuralink, which is co-founded and chaired by Musk, 51. Musk shares two children with Canadian singer Grimes, and other five kids with his ex-wife Canadian author Justine Wilson. A month later, a Texas judge approved the petition, the report added.

36-year-old Shivon Zilis is currently a top executive at Neuralink, the company owned by Elon Musk, which creates interfaces that can be implanted in the ...

Elon Musk is currently 51 years old and the richest man on the planet. Elon Musk is currently 51 years old and the richest man on the planet. The views expressed here are that of the respective authors/ entities and do not represent the views of Economic Times (ET). ET does not guarantee, vouch for or endorse any of its contents nor is responsible for them in any manner whatsoever. Zilis is expected to lead Twitter if Musk’s bid goes through. Zilis is expected to lead Twitter if Musk’s bid goes through. ShivonZilisis an alma-mater of Yale University and has worked as a Project-Director at Tesla. The company Neuralinkwas founded in 2016 by Elon Muskwhere Zilis currently works.

Elon Musk now has nine known children, this includes five with his ex-wife, two with Claire Boucher and two with Shivon Zilis.

He admitted that he does try to take his children with him on adventures though. Grimes has a much bigger role than me right now," he said. While there she led investment efforts in data and machine learning. Musk, who has an estimated net worth of about $220 billion, now has nine known children, including the newly discovered twins. In May, the name change was approved by an Austin, Texas, judge. In April of this year, Musk and Zilis filed a petition to change the twins' names to have their father's last name and Zilis' last name as part of their middle name, according to an Insider report.

Shivon Zillis is a machine learning advocate and major player in Elon Musk's world — and reportedly the mother of two of his children.

(Her LinkedIn page now lists her jobs as director of operations and special projects at the company.) Neuralink is an ambitious moonshot project in Musk’s portfolio, which also includes Tesla and SpaceX, and aims to cut small holes in patients’ skulls to insert brain implants. According to Business Insider, she is 36; Musk is 51.

Shivon Zilis, who reportedly welcomed twins with Elon Musk in November 2021, is a project director at his Neuralink company. Musk previously welcomed eight ...

(Musk left the board in 2018.) Musk, 51, notably welcomed a baby girl named Exa Dark Sideræl via surrogate with his on-again, off-again girlfriend Grimes, whose real name is Claire Boucher, in December 2021, one month ahead of the alleged twins’ arrival. In April of the following year, the parents requested the infants’ monikers be changed to “have their father’s last name and contain their mother’s last name as part of their middle name,” according to court documents obtained by the website.