Elon Musk breaks silence on bombshell news he ‘secretly welcomed twins with exec Shivon Zilis’ while Grimes stays silent
ELON Musk has broken his silence after the bombshell revelation that he and a top female executive at Neuralink reportedly welcomed twins.
In a series of tweets, jokingly said he's trying to help Earth's "underpopulated crisis" following the news of the birth of his twins last November with tech guru Shivon Zilis, 36.
"Doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis," the wealthiest man in the world wrote.
"A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far."
He added: "Mark my words, they are sadly true."
The CEO praised parents who have "big families"; and joked that the population on the planet Mars is still "zero" in a sequence of follow-up tweets.
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"I hope you have big families and congrats to those who already do!"
The founder added: "Population of Mars is still zero people!"
Pinned to his profile is a that shows that the nation's fertility rate has been below the minimum sustainable level for about 50 years.
Court documents obtained by reveal that Musk and Zilis welcomed the twins last November.
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The tech mogul met Zilis through her work with OpenAI, the nonprofit Musk cofounded in 2015.
The two filed a petition to have the twins' names changed on April 25, 2022.
Musk had his second child with singer Grimes via surrogate last December.
Musk and Zilis are looking to "have their father's last name and contain their mother's last name as part of their middle name," court documents state.
A judge in Texas granted the order in May, Insider reports.
Zilis, 36, is the youngest person on the board of directors at OpenAI.
The Canadian native joined Tesla in 2017 before moving to Neuralink.
She currently serves as Neuralink's director of operations and special projects.
It's rumored that Musk could pick Zilis to help run Twitter if his deal to purchase the company goes through.
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Musk, meanwhile, now has nine children, including two sets of twins and one set of triplets.
He has five children from his relationship with Justine Wilson, which ended in divorce in 2008.
Sadly, Musk's first child with Wilson, Nevada Alexander Musk, died 10 weeks after he was born in 2002 of sudden infant death syndrome.
Musk shares two children with his former partner, Claire Boucher, also known as the singer Grimes.
He has previously stated his desire to have more children to help sustain civilization.
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He said: "There are not enough people, I can't emphasize this enough. There are not enough people.
"If people don’t have more children, civilization is going to crumble. Mark my words."
