The controversial billionaire Elon Musk bought a secret mansion complex in Texaswhere he has also installed a large part of his business operations, in order to reunite his eleven children there while not ruling out having more heirs, obsessed as he is with the decline in the world birth rate.
Musk, currently living in Pennsylvania helping his friend Donald Trump return to the White House in the November 5 elections, has told people close to him that he expects his children and two of his three mothers occupy adjoining properties so that the minors can be part of their siblings’ lives, and that way they could schedule time to be with them, according to The New York Times (NYT).
One of the mothers, Shivon Zilisan executive at Neuralink, Musk’s brain technology company, He has already moved into one of the houses with his children.. However, Claire Boucher, the Canadian singer known as Grimes, mother of three of his children, is immersed in a protracted legal dispute with Musk over custody of the children and has so far remained on the sidelines, the report further notes. NYT.
Musk’s first wife is Justine Musk, with whom he has five children through in vitro fertilization, a method they resorted to after the death of their first child, Nevada, who was born in 2002 and died in childhood, a topic that the billionaire He doesn’t want to talk. Other Musk children have also been born by this method.
The newspaper also highlights that The 58-year-old businessman has tried to keep his growing family a secretso much so that not even his father, Errol Musk, who lives in South Africa, has been able to meet one or two of his grandchildren when he has traveled to Texas to visit them, as indicated in his biography published in 2023.
“I haven’t met one or two of them because they’re still secret,” said Musk Sr., 78.
The obsession of the owner of X, Tesla and the aeronautics company SpaceX with the decrease in births is such that has offered his own sperm to acquaintances and friendsamong them the independent candidate for the US vice presidency in this year’s elections, the lawyer Nicole Shanahan, former running mate of Robert F. Kennedy, an offer that she rejected.
“Having children should be considered a national emergency,” He has said on occasions through the
He NYT remember that in a biography published in 2015, Musk worried that smart people don’t have enough children. “I’m not saying that only intelligent people should have children. I’m just saying that intelligent people should also have children,” he said at the time.
“I’ve noticed that a lot of very intelligent women have one child or none at all. You think, ‘Wow, that’s probably not good,'” Musk said, defender of in vitro fertilizationwhich he said “is a more efficient way to have children because it allows parents to control part of the process,” according to the newspaper, which quotes a person who shares his way of thinking.
According to the newspaper, Musk has increased his alarm over the decline in births in the US and other countries that In 2021 he donated $10 million through his foundation to the University of Texas to study fertility and population trends.
“I do everything I can to encourage more people to become parents and, if possible, have three or more children, so that humanity can grow,” he posted in February.