on Sunday, the Tesla CEO bristled at the idea he and Shivon Zilis, Neuralink Corp.’s director of special projects, had kept their latest addition a “secret.”“As for ‘secretly fathered,’ that is also false,” Musk told the outlet in a statement. “All our friends and family know.”
His statement went on to add, “Failure to issue a press release, which would be bizarre, does not mean ‘secret.’”The billionaire, who also shares children with singerand ex-wife Justine Wilson, has openly worried about the idea that declining birth rates pose a serious threat to the world. After a July 2022 report from Insider unearthed court records that revealed the existence of Musk and Zilis’ twins,
, “Doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis. A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces, by far.”Musk’s new baby news comes at the same time as reports that ex-wife Talulah Riley has wed actor Thomas Brodie-Sangster.The couple, who share no children, remarried one year later and called it quits for good in 2016.