Tesla and SpaceX CEO
Elon Musk
, also close to owning
, 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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