Okay, How Many Children Does Elon Musk Truly Have?

Final week, we reported that Elon Musk has 11 kids, which appeared like quite a bit on the time. Sadly, that quantity seems to be incorrect. In truth, he has one more beforehand unreported child, in keeping with a report printed Friday by Bloomberg. The full variety of children (that we all know of) now seems to be 12.

Bloomberg’s report, which delves deeper into Musk’s latest promulgation of pronatalist ideas, notes that the tech billionaire has had at the very least three kids with an government at his neuroscience startup Neuralink. Till this week, solely two of these kids had been recognized to the general public. The Bloomberg report makes an attempt to chart Musk’s paternal “exercise,” diagramming it like so:

He’s fathered at the very least 12 kids, six of them prior to now 5 years—three with the musician Grimes and three with Neuralink Corp.’s director of particular initiatives, Shivon Zilis, together with one who hasn’t been recognized to the general public till now. That youngster was born earlier this yr, in keeping with individuals conversant in the matter, who would solely focus on it on situation of anonymity. Zilis declined to remark, and Musk didn’t reply to inquiries.

At this level, Musk is akin to some kind of medieval king whose lack of ability to maintain it in his pants has resulted in an infinite unfold of heirs and child mommas all through his fiefdom. Critically, what number of offspring does this dude even have? The Bloomberg piece notably says that the tech billionaire has sired “at the very least 12 kids” (emphasis mine), which doesn’t make it a very definitive quantity.

Musk has been telling anyone who will pay attention that they need to have a lot of kids to battle the worldwide “child bust.” That is, in fact, kind of a simple factor to inform individuals once you don’t have to fret about the price of childcare as a result of you’re the richest guy (or, typically, the second richest guy) on Earth.

Gizmodo reached out to Neuralink and Musk for remark and can replace this story if they supply a definitive variety of child Elons operating round.