Shivon Zilis

This week in Elon Musk news, we found out about two new kids in the family, Musk picked another fight about Twitter, and he's still all about Mars.

We’ve been saying for a while that Musk’s whole “I love free speech no matter what but also follow the rules of governments” thing was never going to actually work in the real world. With every scandal, it becomes a little more obvious why he sees Twitter as so valuable: it’s an unparalleled narrative-control machine with which he can tell 100 million people at a time that everything’s a lie or a joke or not as big a deal as you think or irrelevant because all we should care about is Mars. Twitter is, to borrow a phrase from Apple, Musk’s reality distortion field. Always. He has these big goals — make gas cars obsolete, get to Mars, fix traffic, understand the human brain, on and on — and has proven he doesn’t particularly care what it takes to accomplish them. The Washington Post reported that Musk’s Twitter acquisition may be falling apart but didn’t provide any reason why other than “Elon is still mad about bots.” Meanwhile, Twitter continues to go out of its way to say it does not have a bot problem. He’s even back to pumping Dogecoin, though it turns out not even Musk can save the crashing prices of crypto. The Indian government has been tightening its rules for online speech and demanded Twitter remove certain accounts and posts for violating its new laws. There’s been a lot of talk about the Musk family over the last couple of weeks. There’s still exactly zero evidence that Musk plays by the rules, acknowledges those rules, or even allows rules to exist in the first place. Musk does as Musk wants — all the time, everywhere. Elon Musk’s pinned tweet is from May. It’s a chart from The Wall Street Journal showing that the US fertility rate has been below the “replacement level” since the 1970s. This is just how Musk operates — and how his companies operate by extension. “USA birth rate has been below min sustainable levels for ~50 years,” was Musk’s contribution to the tweet.

Today in celebrity news, there's a set of twins, a forecast for divorce and public DMs.

Elon Musk quietly welcomed twins with one of his top executives, Shivon Zilis last year, just weeks before his child with Grimes was born.

“I think just doing what I’ve done with my other kids.” Nevada tragically died of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, at only 10 weeks. Business Insider reports that Musk, 51, and Zilis, 36, filed a petition to change the twins’ names in order to “have their father’s last name and contain their mother’s last name as part of their middle name.”

Elon Musk secretly fathered twins with an executive at one of his companies, according to a new report.

A judge already approved the request. Elon and Shivon met back in 2015, and she's been rising through the ranks at his companies ... including a stop at Tesla before Neuralink. There's speculation Elon might pick her to run Twitter if his deal to buy the social media giant eventually goes through. Elon had twins with Shivon Zilis -- a top executive at Neuralink, the brain chip company Musk co-founded and chairs -- according to an Insider report, and court docs filed in Texas. No word on the twins' first names, but court docs were reportedly filed earlier this year by Elon and Shivon requesting the children's names be changed to include Zilis as a middle name, and Musk as the last. Elon Musk reportedly had twins on the low last year with a woman who is running one of his companies ... making him a father to at least 9 kids. Elon Musk Had Twins with One of His Execs ... According to New Report

Congratulations are apparently in order for Elon Musk: The Tesla chief executive had twins in November with Shivon Zilis, a top executive at his company ...

Neither she nor Musk responded to a request for comment from the outlet. Earlier this year, he tweeted a screenshot of a Wall Street Journal demographic illustrating the declining U.S. birth rate. Her existence was also kept secret until March this year, when a Vanity Fair reporter sent to profile Grimes heard the “lone cry” of a baby upstairs. The twins were reportedly born just “weeks” before the SpaceX founder and musician Grimes had a baby daughter via surrogate. An expert in artificial intelligence, Zilis met Musk, 51, in 2015. Court filings obtained by the outlet showed that Musk and Zilis filed a petition to change their children’s names to “have their father’s last name and contain their mother’s last name as part of their middle name” in April. One month later, a Texas judge approved the petition.

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk and Shivon Zilis, a top executive at his San Francisco-based neurotechnology firm Neuralink, had twins in November of 2021, ...

Zilis, 36, is identified on her LinkedIn profile as director of operations and special projects at Neuralink, which is co-founded and chaired by Musk, 51. Musk shares two children with Canadian singer Grimes, and other five kids with his ex-wife Canadian author Justine Wilson. She also serves as a board member at artificial-intelligence research firm OpenAI, which was co-founded by Musk, according to her profile on LinkedIn.

Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO and world's richest man, welcomed twins last year with an executive at one of his other companies, Neuralink, ...

(The two, who were married from 2000 to 2008, lost their first child; Justine, an author, famously wrote about what it was like to be married to, and divorce, Musk for Marie Claire magazine The outlet obtained court filings pertaining to changing the children's legal names to incorporate the Musk last name, and Zilis' as part of the middle names. Zilis did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Shivon Zilis, a top executive at his brain-chip start-up Neuralink, had twins in November 2021, a report said.

Zilis, 36, is identified on her LinkedIn profile as director of operations and special projects at Neuralink, which is co-founded and chaired by Musk, 51. Musk shares two children with Canadian singer Grimes, and other five kids with his ex-wife Canadian author Justine Wilson. A month later, a Texas judge approved the petition, the report added.

Elon Musk and Shivon Zilis, the project director at his Neuralink company, welcomed twins in November 2021, court documents reveal.

"Gender Identity and the fact that I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form," she wrote, according to court documents obtained by PEOPLE. "Please look at the numbers –– if people don't have more children, civilization is going to crumble, mark my words." After welcoming the twins, Musk is now a father of 10.

Elon Musk now has nine known children, this includes five with his ex-wife, two with Claire Boucher and two with Shivon Zilis.

He admitted that he does try to take his children with him on adventures though. Grimes has a much bigger role than me right now," he said. While there she led investment efforts in data and machine learning. Musk, who has an estimated net worth of about $220 billion, now has nine known children, including the newly discovered twins. In May, the name change was approved by an Austin, Texas, judge. In April of this year, Musk and Zilis filed a petition to change the twins' names to have their father's last name and Zilis' last name as part of their middle name, according to an Insider report.

Elon Musk Allegedly Fathered Twins With Neuralink Executive Shivon Zilis: Just weeks before he and Grimes welcomed their second child.

News has just surfaced that Elon Musk fathered twins with Shivon Zilis just weeks before he and Grimes welcomed their second child via surrogacy last November. As reported by Insider, court documents indicated that both Musk and Zilis filed for a petition to change the names of the twins to “have their father’s last name and contain their mother’s last name as part of their middle name.” Just weeks before he and Grimes welcomed their second child.

Shivon Zillis is a machine learning advocate and major player in Elon Musk's world — and reportedly the mother of two of his children.

(Her LinkedIn page now lists her jobs as director of operations and special projects at the company.) Neuralink is an ambitious moonshot project in Musk’s portfolio, which also includes Tesla and SpaceX, and aims to cut small holes in patients’ skulls to insert brain implants. According to Business Insider, she is 36; Musk is 51.