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Who are Elon Musk’s baby moms?

Musk has 12 children with three different women

BILLIONAIRE Elon Musk is an outspoken advocate for bringing more children into the world.

The Tesla CEO is known to put his words into action - especially when it comes to growing his family.

Elon Musk has a total of twelve children, including
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Elon Musk has a total of twelve children, includingCredit: AFP or licensors

Who are Elon Musk's baby moms?

Justine Wilson

Justine Musk, Elon Musk's first ex-wife and the mother of five of his 12 children, is seen walking her dog
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Justine Musk, Elon Musk's first ex-wife and the mother of five of his 12 children, is seen walking her dogCredit: Splash News

Elon Musk and Justine Wilson first met while studying at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada.

The pair married in January 2000 and share five children together.

In 2002, their first son, Nevada, tragically passed away from sudden infant death syndrome at just 10 weeks old.

The couple then used IVF to have five more children:

  • Twins: Griffin and Vivian, born in 2004
  • Triplets: Kai, Saxon and Damian, born in 2006

Musk and Wilson divorced in 2008.

Grimes, aka Claire Elise Boucher

Canadian songwriter, musician, record producer, and bonafide pop star, Grimes, shares three children with her on-again, off-again boyfriend, Elon Musk
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Canadian songwriter, musician, record producer, and bonafide pop star, Grimes, shares three children with her on-again, off-again boyfriend, Elon MuskCredit: Instagram / @grimes

Claire Elise Boucher, famously known as Grimes is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Vancouver.

She reportedly started dating Musk in March 2018 and the pair welcomed their first child, X Æ A-Xii, in 2020.

Although the pair seem to have an on-and-off-again relationship, it was revealed that the pair had welcomed their second child, a baby girl via surrogate on March 10, 2022.

Their daughter, Exa Dark Sideræl Musk, is nicknamed "Y" by her parents.

On September 9, 2023, a review published by  claimed that Musk and Grimes secretly welcomed a third child together.

The baby boy, a son by the name of Techno Mechanicus, was born in mid-June 2022, during the week of Father's Day. 

Musk later confirmed he calls his third child with Grimes "Tau" for short, after the Greek letter for the number equal to two times pi. 

The number, which is roughly 6.28, may even be a callback to Musk's birthday, June 28. 

Shivon Zilis 

Elon Musk shares a pair of twins and another child with Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis
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Elon Musk shares a pair of twins and another child with Neuralink executive Shivon ZilisCredit: YouTube

On Wednesday, July 6, 2022,  reported that Musk welcomed two children with Shivon Zilis, 36, the director of operations and special projects for Neuralink.

The boy-girl twins were born in November 2021.

Strider Zilis Musk, a baby girl, and Azure Zilis Musk, a baby boy, were born just a few weeks before Musk welcomed his second child with Grimes.

Zilis, a Canadian from Ontario is the third woman the entrepreneur has had kids with.

She received her bachelor's degree from Yale and was featured in Forbes' 30 Under 30 list in the venture capital category in 2015.

According to the outlet, "Zilis met Musk through her work with OpenAI, the artificial-intelligence research-and-deployment nonprofit Musk cofounded in 2015.

"She serves as the youngest member of OpenAI's board of directors. In 2017, Zilis moved to Tesla, where she was a project director, deploying her AI expertise on the Autopilot and chip-design teams."

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On June 22, 2024, Bloomberg reported that Musk and Zilis had welcomed a third child together, Musk's 12th, earlier in 2024.

The baby's name and gender weren't revealed, and neither Zilis nor Musk have commented on the report.

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