Musk Offers Sperm Donation to Female Executive Resulting in Twins: "Smart People Should Have More Children"

Neuralink Executive Donates Sperm
"Declining Birthrate Threatens Human Survival"
Confirmed Musk Children Total 10

It was revealed that the twins between Elon Musk (52), CEO of Tesla, and Shivon Zilis (36), an executive at Neuralink, were conceived through sperm donation.

This information is contained in the biography of Elon Musk, written by Walter Isaacson and published in the United States on the 12th (local time). Isaacson is a biographer who has written about the lives of Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, and others.

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla [Photo by Reuters]

According to the biography, Musk encouraged other employees, including Zilis, an executive at Neuralink, a company he founded, to have many children. He feared that "the declining birth rate would pose a threat to the long-term survival of humanity."

Regarding this, Zilis, the biological mother of the twins, stated, "Musk encouraged me to get pregnant because he wanted smart people to have children."

The author wrote that Musk and Zilis were not dating, and that Musk voluntarily offered to donate sperm to Zilis. With her consent, they conceived fraternal male and female twins through in vitro fertilization in 2021.

At the time, Musk's girlfriend, Grimes (Claire Boucher), who was completely unaware of this fact, later found out and was very angry with Musk.

The biography of Elon Musk written by Walter Isaacson, 'Elon Musk'
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Grimes, who had great difficulty during her first pregnancy with Musk's child, chose surrogacy for her second child. Because the pregnancy and birth periods of the surrogate and Zilis overlapped, the two women were hospitalized in the same hospital for a time.

The biography also contains details about Musk's unstable relationships with several women he married or dated. In particular, his relationship with Amber Heard, the ex-wife of actor Johnny Depp, was described as the most painful romance.

Additionally, the book reveals the decisive reason why the relationship between Bill Gates, the Microsoft (MS) founder and one of the richest people in the world, and Musk deteriorated.

The biography "Elon Musk" boasts a vast length of 670 pages. The author said, "Musk not only allowed me to follow him like a shadow for two years but also did not interfere at all with the content of the biography."

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