Tesla and SpaceX CEO

Elon Musk

, also close to owning

Twitter

, had twins in November with a director of

Neuralink

, another of his companies, bringing the number of his living children to

nine

, according to

Business Insider

. .

According to an article in the specialized newspaper,

Musk

and

Shivon Zilis

, a

36-year

-old Canadian, applied to a court in Texas to change the names of the two babies.

They wanted to give him his father's last name and as a middle name, his mother's last name.

His request was approved by a judge, according to the documents consulted by the publication.

Shivon Zilis

is the Director of Operations and Special Projects for

Neuralink

, a billionaire company specializing in

neural implants

.

The twins were born in November, just weeks before

Musk

's second daughter with music artist

Grimes

, whom they christened

Exa Dark Sideræl Musk

, and will be named "Y."

His other son born in 2020 responds to the common name of "X", diminutive of his full name: X Æ A-12.

About their relationship, the artist said

"we are very fluid"

in an interview with

Vanity Fair

in March.

"We live in separate houses. We are best friends. We see each other all the time... (...) I don't expect people to understand."

The richest man in the world has had six children with

Justine Musk

(Wilson) in the 2000s, but one of them died just weeks after his birth.

One of them, today a transgender girl, recently made an official request to change her last name, along with her gender, in order to

cut off all ties with her father

, according to legal documents consulted by AFP.

"I no longer live with my biological father and I don't want to be associated with him in any way," she wrote.

Born

Xavier Alexander Musk

, she now demanded to be called

Vivian Jenna Wilson

and thus take the surname of her mother, who divorced

Elon Musk

in 2008.

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