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Elon Musk and Shivon Zilis Privately Welcome Their Third Baby Together
June 26, 2024
Elon Musk is now a father of 12. Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis gave birth to their third baby together, the Tesla CEO has confirmed. Read More
The Tesla CEO, the richest man in the world, and Shivon Zilis, director of special projects at his company Neuralink, have privately welcomed their third baby together.
Musk, 52, confirmed the news June 23, two days after Bloomberg Businessweek magazine cited people familiar with the matter as saying the child was born earlier this year.
“All our friends and family know,” the SpaceX founder told Page Six. “Failure to issue a press release, which would be bizarre, does not mean ‘secret.'”
Musk did not reveal the name or the sex of the baby. The chairman of X—previously known as Twitter—and Silis, 38, are also parents of twins—son Strider and daughter Azure, 2, who were conceived via IVF.
“He really wants smart people to have kids, so he encouraged me to,” Zilis is quoted as saying in Walter Isaacson‘s 2003 biography Elon Musk. “If the choice is between an anonymous sperm donor or doing it with the person you admire most in the world, for me that was a pretty f–king easy decision.”
She added, “I can’t possibly think of genes I would prefer for my children.”
Musk also shares three kids—X Æ A-Xii, 4, Exa Dark Sideræl, 2, and Techno Mechanicus, whose birth was confirmed in 2023—with ex Grimes, 36.
The tech billionaire also fathered six children with ex-wife Justine Wilson Musk, 51.
In April, Musk jokingly reflected on his parenting journey. “Whoa,” he wrote on X, “I just realized that raising a kid is basically 18 years of prompt engineering.”
Read on to find out more about Musk’s family…
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Maye Musk (Mom)
Maye was born in Saskatchewan, Canada and emigrated with her parents to Pretoria, South Africa in 1950, when she was 7. She and Elon’s father, Errol Musk, split in 1979.
After Elon moved to Canada at age 17, Maye obtained Canadian citizenship by birthright and moved there too. There, she established a dietician practice and became President of the Consulting Dieticians of Canada. She also worked as a model.
In 2019, after Elon sold his company Zip2 for more than $300 million, he bought his mom an apartment in New York City, where she lived for 13 years and continued her modeling career after being signed to the IMG Models agency.
“I brought my children up like my parents brought us up when we were young: to be independent, kind, honest, considerate and polite,” Maye wrote in an essay for CNBC. “I taught them the importance of working hard and doing good things.”
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Errol Musk (Dad)
Elon’s father is an engineer and like Elon, was born in South Africa.
Though Errol said in a 2015 Forbes interview that he used to often take his kids on trips overseas—”Their mother and I split up when they were quite young and the kids stayed with me. I took them all over the world.”—his relationship with Elon isn’t picture perfect.
In an emotional 2017 Rolling Stone interview, Elon criticized his father and talked about his upbringing, saying that after his parents split, he moved in with his dad, which, he said, “was not a good idea.”
However, Errol told Rolling Stone, “I love my children and would readily do whatever for them.”
Following his divorce from Maye, Errol married Heide, whose daughter Jana Bezuidenhout was 4 years old at the time. Errol and Heide went on to have two daughters together before they, too, broke up.
Years later, Jana reached out to Errol following a breakup of her own. “We were lonely, lost people,” Errol explained in a 2018 interview with The Sunday Times. “One thing led to another—you can call it God’s plan or nature’s plan.”
Either way, the duo became romantic and welcomed son Elliott in 2017 and then a baby girl in 2019. As Errol put it to The Sun, “The only thing we are on Earth for is to reproduce. If I could have another child I would. I can’t see any reason not to.”
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Kimbal Musk & Tosca Musk (Siblings)
Kimbal, born in 1972, is a restauranteur and the founder of The Kitchen, a collective of five restaurants that source directly from local farmers. He also runs a non-profit, Big-Green, that has built 200 learning gardens in schools across the U.S., the outlet said.
Tosca, born in 1974, is a filmmaker. In 2017, she founded Passionflix, a female-focused streaming service that targets the billion-dollar romance novel industry.
Baby No. 12
In 2024, Elon and Zilis welcomed their third baby together. The billionaire confirmed the news in June 2024, telling Page Six, “All our friends and family know,” adding, “Failure to issue a press release, which would be bizarre, does not mean ‘secret.'”
