The world’s richest man now has nine known children, including five with his first wife, Justine Musk, and two with singer Claire Bowse, known professionally as Grimes. Court documents obtained by Insider and published on Wednesday showed that Elon Musk and Gilles have filed to change their twin babies’ names to “have their father’s last name and contain their mother’s last name as part of their middle name”. The petition was filed in Austin, Texas, where the babies were born, and was approved by the judge. Zilis reportedly gave birth in November 2021, weeks before Musk and Boucher had their second child via surrogate. Zilis, 36, was born in Canada and studied economics and philosophy at Yale before working at IBM and later at Bloomberg Beta, a venture capital fund. He is considered a rising star in the world of artificial intelligence and has been included in Forbes 30 Under 30 in and LinkedIn 35 Under 35. According to her LinkedIn, Zilis works as director of operations and special projects at Neuralink, Musk’s neurotechnology company, which seeks to create human-machine interfaces. He started working at the company in May 2017. In 2022, animal rights groups filed a complaint with the US Department of Agriculture over allegations of animal abuse related to the monkeys used in the Neuralink experiments. Neuralink called the claims “misleading”. Musk runs several companies, including Neuralink, electric car company Tesla, space travel company SpaceX and tunnel construction company Boring Company. It recently agreed to buy Twitter for $44 billion, a purchase that has stalled over concerns about bots on the platform. According to Insider, Zilis has been “on board” to run the social networking site should the deal go through. Musk has previously pushed for an increase in the birth rate, saying that “civilization will collapse” if people don’t have more children. “I mean, I’m doing my part haha,” he recently tweeted about the declining US birth rate. In April, one of his daughters filed to change her last name and legally disassociate herself from Musk, saying she did not want “to be associated with my biological father in any way, shape or form.”
