In November, the Tesla CEO, 51, reportedly had twins with Shivon Zilis, 36, director of operations at Musk’s brain-machine interface company Neuralink, Insider reported. She now has nine known children. Musk and Zillis filed in April to change the twins’ names to “have their father’s last name and mother’s last name as part of their middle name,” according to court documents. The twins were born in November, just weeks before Musk and Claire Boucher, the musician who plays Grimes, welcomed their second child via surrogate in December. Shivon Zilis, 36, pictured, a top executive at Elon Musk’s company Neuralink, welcomed twins with the Tesla chief executive in November, court documents revealed Musk reportedly welcomed the twins weeks before fathering a child with Grimes via surrogate Zilis, who was born in Ontario, Canada, met Musk through OpenAI, the nonprofit AI research and development company Musk founded in 2015, Insider reported. She studied economics and philosophy at Yale where she also played goalie on the women’s ice hockey team. In 2015, Zilis was on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list in the venture capital category, and in 2017, she had the opportunity to use her AI expertise at Tesla. Just last year, Zilis posted a nod to Prince Harry’s Silicon Valley startup with a throwback photo of the two of them from 2013 when she was asked to brief him on startups. Just last year, Zilis posted a nod to Prince Harry’s Silicon Valley startup with a throwback photo of the two of them from 2013 when she was asked to brief him on tech startups “In 2013 I was asked to brief Prince Harry on startups,” he tweeted. “Here I tell him how the Basis watch was created on my wrist through a crowdfunding campaign. At the time I wondered why he was interested in tech startups. 8 years later we finally know the answer!”. Zilis is currently the director of operations and special projects for Neuralink and has been touted as one of the people Musk could tap to run Twitter Inc after it is acquired in a $44 billion deal. In 2020, Zilis posted a tweet defending Musk for his decision to move Tesla out of California due to COVID-19 restrictions. California State Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher tweeted “F**k Elon Musk.” Zilis replied: “This saddens me. No one is perfect, but I have never met anyone who experiences more personal pain to fight for an inspiring future for humanity – and has done so tirelessly for decades. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but mine is that there is no one I respect and admire more.” In 2020, Zilis posted a tweet defending Musk for his decision to move Tesla out of California due to COVID-19 restrictions Zilis, who was born in Canada, participated in a machine learning discussion with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at Creative Destruction Lab’s Machine Learning and the Market for Intelligence Conference in 2017 Elon Musk and Grimes pictured in 2018 welcomed a child via surrogate in December just weeks after she had twins with Shivon Zilis, it has been reported. News of the twins’ arrival brings Musk’s total number of children to nine. Musk has two children with Canadian singer Grimes and five other children with his ex-wife, Canadian author Justine Wilson. It’s the latest in Musk’s complicated personal life that has included three marriages and three divorces, including two each to the same woman and seven children from two long-term romances. Musk and Grimes welcomed their second child Exa Dark Sideræl, who goes by Y, via surrogate in December. The billionaire said he and Grimes were “half-divorced,” according to a Page Six report in September of last year. They have another child named X Æ A-Xii. In April, one of Musk’s children with his first wife Justine Wilson filed court papers to legally change from male to female and lose their last name, stating: “I no longer live with or wish to have a relationship with my biological father no way. , shape or form.’ Xavier Musk, 18, filed the papers in Santa Monica, Calif., on April 18, seeking to be known as Vivian Jenna Wilson, taking the maiden name of her mother Justine Wilson, who was married to Musk from 2000 to in 2008 and shares 18-year-old twins Xavier and Griffin and 16-year-old triplets Damian, Kai and Saxon. The transgender teenager explained that they want to take their mother’s surname to distance them from their dad, but have not commented on whether they receive financial support from their dad – whose $213 billion fortune makes him the richest man in the world. Musk has been vocal on various transgender issues and last year complained about people using their own pronouns. He also said he was a fan of Florida Gov. Ron DeSandis, who has been condemned by the LGBTQ community for his bill that prevents discussion of gender identity and homosexuality in kindergarten through third grade classrooms. Elon and Justine Wilson, now 50, met while both studying at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada and married in 2000. The couple have five children, but lost their firstborn, Nevada, in 2002 aged just ten weeks from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). The tycoon has five other children from his previous marriage to writer Justine Wilson, from whom he split in 2008. He is beaming with his triplets, born in 2006 After his split from Justine, Elon began dating British star Talulah Riley, who is best known for her roles in Pride & Prejudice, St. Trinian’s, Fritton’s Gold, The Boat That Rocked, Inception, Westworld and Bloodshot. Talulah was first married to architect Tesla in 2010. However, their first marriage ended in 2012 when she reportedly walked away with $16 million as part of a divorce settlement. The following summer, they were remarried. But then in December 2014, she filed for divorce a second time, only to withdraw her suit the following year. In March 2016, Talulah filed for divorce for the third time and the couple separated for good. the couple had no children together. Elon then dated actress Amber Heard, 35, for several months in late 2016 and early 2017 after allegedly pursuing her for several years. Amber’s ex-husband Johnny Depp later accused Amber of cheating on him with Elon while they were still married, but both Elon and Amber denied the affair. They are pictured in 2017 Amber’s ex-husband Johnny later accused Amber of cheating on him with Elon while they were still married, but both Elon and Amber denied the affair. They broke up in the summer of 2017, and he then told Rolling Stone in November 2017 that he was “really in love” with Amber and that their split “hurt bad.” Elon and Grimes started dating in April 2018, a month before they made their red carpet debut at the Met Gala. A source told Page Six at the time that they met online “through an AI joke that Musk had planned to tweet, but found out Grimes had already done.” Rumors began to swirl that they had broken up by that fall after the pair unfollowed each other on Twitter, however, Grimes insisted they were still together during a March 2019 interview with the Wall Street Journal. In January 2020, she announced that she was pregnant with their first child via Instagram. They then welcomed their son, whom they call X, in May of that year Then in January 2020, she announced that she was pregnant with their first child via Instagram when she shared a photo of her baby bump, with no caption. They then welcomed their son in May of that year. After his birth, the couple had to change the spelling of their son’s name in order to comply with California law, which prohibits the use of any number of symbols in a name. Instead of X Æ A-12, they revealed just weeks after the baby’s birth that his birth certificate would be listed as X AE A-Xii – using the Roman version of the number ’12’ and changing the character æ to AE. In December they welcomed their second child Exa Dark Sideræl, who goes by Y.