The ‘anti-love story’ of making a baby with Elon Musk

Apr 19, 2025 | 10:39 IST

The world’s richest man wants a ‘legion’ of his own babies. But he doesn’t want people to know about many of them. The cost of that silence? $15mn

“He really wants smart people to have kids,” Shivon Zilis, an executive at Elon Musk’s company Neuralink, had told Musk’s biographer. “When she decided that she was ready,” the unauthorised biography continues, “he suggested that he be the sperm donor so that the kids would be genetically his.”

That’s sort of what the point seems to be — lots of babies, his babies, and smart babies.

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The ‘anti-love story’ of making a baby with Elon Musk

The world’s richest man wants a ‘legion’ of his own babies. But he doesn’t want people to know about many of them. The cost of that silence? $15mn

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The ‘anti-love story’ of making a baby with Elon Musk

The world’s richest man wants a ‘legion’ of his own babies. But he doesn’t want people to know about many of them. The cost of that silence? $15mn

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