Tesla CEO Elon Musk reportedly had twins with a top executive at one of his companies last year, his eighth and ninth known child.
Court documents obtained by Business Insider on Wednesday show that Musk and the children’s mother, Siobhan Zillis, have filed a petition to change the twins’ names to “have their father’s last name and contain their mother’s last name as part of their middle name. ”
The order was then approved by a federal judge in May. Zilis purchased a home in the Austin, Texas, area in August, nearly three months before the twins were born, according to Business Insider. Musk also has waterfront property in the city.
The twins were born weeks before Musk and his then-girlfriend, the musician known as Grimes, gave birth to their second child via surrogate in December.
Zilis, 36, is director of operations and special projects for Neuralink, which develops computer chips to be implanted in brains and where Musk is co-CEO. A graduate of Yale University, she began her career at companies including IBM and Bloomberg Beta before joining Tesla in 2017 as a project director.
The Ontario, Canada native, who was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2015, reportedly first met Musk that year through her work for his nonprofit OpenAI.
The 51-year-old CEO has been an outspoken advocate for more births, expressing fear of a possible U.S. fertility crisis and touting his own birth success.
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“Contrary to what many people think, the richer someone is, the fewer children they have,” Musk said in a Twitter thread. “I am a rare exception. Most people I know have zero or one child.
“I mean I’m doing my part haha,” Musk said in a follow-up tweet on the thread last month.
Musk has yet to close his major acquisition of social media platform Twitter, but Insider noted that Musk had Zillis on his short list of people to run the company if the deal went through.
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