The world the richest man, Elon Musk, has secretly welcomed twins with Shivon Zilis, a top executive at one of his companies.
The twins were born in Austin, Texas, in November 2021 according to court documents obtained by Insider and made public on Wednesday.
At the neurotechnology company Neuralink, which Musk founded and owns, Zilis serves as the Director of Operations and Special Projects.
The papers, which were submitted in April 2022, were a request by the parents to a county judge in Texas to have the names of their children changed to reflect their father’s last name, and contain their mother’s last name as part of their middle name.
According to Insider, Musk’s twins arrived weeks before the birth of his daughter with his ex-partner, Claire Boucher, a Canadian musician better known by her stage name Grimes.
In an April cover story interview with Vanity Fair, Boucher admitted to secretly giving birth to the child through a surrogate in December 2021.
Musk also shares 18-year-old twins, Vivian Jenna Wilson and Griffin Musk, alongside 16-year-old triplets, Kai, Damian, and Sax Musk, with his first wife, Justine Wilson. The couple had another son, Nevada Musk, who died at 10 weeks.
In June, Vivian, formerly Xavier Alexander Musk, formally changed her name and severed her relationship with her father.
