Shivon Zilis, the Indian-origin, Canada-born Neuralink executive and mother of four of Musk’s children, announced on Thursday that her romantic relationship with the billionaire was over — and suggested that the separation came rather suddenly.
“It’s hard to go from in love to let go in a week with no warning, but that’s just how it is sometimes,” Zilis wrote on X, the platform owned by her partner. She said she was grateful to have shown Musk “how it feels to be deeply understood, nurtured, and peacefully loved with stability and gentleness,” adding that she hoped they could remain “great friends and coparents.”
Publicly reported totals now stand at 14 children.
So I would say I’m not racist,” Musk told editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes. Clair has also said Musk fathered her son Romulus. More recently, in a July interview with The Economist, the subject came up again — this time as Musk’s response to a question about accusations that he is racist. “My partner is… half Indian and I have four children with her. You know, one of them was named after a famous Indian physicist. Musk’s family arrangements are, by now, sufficiently elaborate to require a spreadsheet. He was married three times to two women: author Justine Wilson, his first wife, and actress Talulah Riley, whom he married twice. With Wilson he had six children, including twins and triplets; their first son, Nevada, died as an infant. He subsequently had three children with musician Grimes — one named with an odd combination of alphabet and numbers, Exa Dark Siderael, and Techno Mechanicus. Zilis brought the tally to four children, while conservative influencer Ashley St.