Elon Musk had twins last year with one of his top executives – Business Insider

SpaceX proprietor and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks all through a conversation with legendary video game designer Todd Howard (not pictured) at the E3 gaming conference in Los Angeles, California, U.S., June 13, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Blake

July 6 (Reuters) – Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) Chief Govt Elon Musk and Shivon Zilis, a prime government at his brain-chip startup Neuralink, experienced twins in November of 2021, Business Insider noted on Wednesday.

In April, Musk and Zilis filed a petition to modify the name of the twins to “have their father’s previous identify” and consist of their mother’s last name as section of their center title, the report said, citing court docket documents.

A thirty day period afterwards, a Texas decide accepted the petition, the report extra.

A court docket summary on the Westlaw authorized research company confirmed a judge signed an “Buy Altering the Names Of Several Kids” on Could 11 immediately after the name improve petition from Musk and Zilis made on April 25 this yr.

The report stated, without citing any source, that Zillis has not long ago been floated as one of the people Musk could tap to run Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) just after his $44 billion deal acquisition.

Zilis, 36, is recognized on her LinkedIn profile as director of functions and exclusive initiatives at Neuralink, which is co-established and chaired by Musk, 51. She started off working at the enterprise in May perhaps 2017, the identical month she was named a challenge director in artificial intelligence at Tesla, where by she labored right up until 2019.

She also serves as a board member at artificial-intelligence research agency OpenAI, which was co-founded by Musk, according to her profile on LinkedIn.

The news of the twins’ arrival brings Musk’s whole rely of children to nine. Musk shares two children with Canadian singer Grimes, and other 5 young children with his ex-wife Canadian author Justine Wilson.

Musk and Grimes welcomed their 2nd child by using surrogate in December. The billionaire said that he and Grimes had been “semi-divided,” according to a report by Website page Six in September previous 12 months.

Musk and Zilis did not straight away answer to Reuters’ ask for for reviews.

Reporting by Akriti Sharma in Bengaluru and Hyunjoo Jin in San Francisco and Mike Scarcella Editing by Sandra Maler

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