In May 2020, billionaire Elon Musk unexpectedly announced on Twitter (now X) that he was “selling almost all physical assets.” Taking a step forward he said, “There will be no home.” In interviews over the next few years, he continued to describe his lifestyle as minimalist or nomadic, claiming that he had no primary residence and lived in friends' spare bedrooms.
However, by the end of 2023, Musk's family had grown significantly: two more children with Claire Boucher (better known as pop star Grimes), and one with Shivon Zilis, an executive at his brain-chip implant company Neuralink. Twins. Zilis will have a third child with Musk in 2024, making him the father of 11 known children. According to new reporting, it was during this period new York TimesThat the world's richest man began planning a compound combining several properties he had purchased in Austin, Texas to house his growing children. Far from owning “no house”, Musk now owns at least three mansions in a wealthy area of the city, with enough space for all his children and their mothers.
Musk has hardly been shy about his reasons for having such a large family: He believes population decline is being caused by declining birth rates in developed countries, including the United States, which this year he described as “humanity's “The biggest problem before us”. (Demographers say their fears are unfounded.) Associated with the population-increasing movement known as pronatalism, he has often encouraged more purchases to combat the trend, and once joked I said, “I'm doing my part.”
Times It was revealed that Musk continues to seek out women willing to have children with him, sometimes offering his semen to friends and acquaintances. Nicole Shanahan, a Silicon Valley lawyer and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s running mate until he dropped out of the presidential race, was among those who rejected him, according to two sources. (Shanahan has denied allegations that she and Musk had an affair in 2021, when she was married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin.) According to attendees of a dinner party thrown by a tech executive last year, Musk also said he could provide sperm “to a married couple he had met socially only a few times,” who mentioned at the meal that they were having difficulty conceiving. During the conversation, Musk “also boasted about his many children”, other guests reported. Times,
Following Taylor Swift's September endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election — which she signed as a “childless cat lady” — Trump's running mate Sen. J.D. Vance was hit with his own derogatory comments against those women. A pinch for those who don't have kids – Musk saw a chance to pass on his genes again. “Ok Taylor,” he posted on X, “you win… I'll give you a baby and protect your cats with my life.” of this message Times Note: “People close to Mr Musk believe he was only half-joking.”
Although the CEOs of Tesla and SpaceX have tried to challenge this idea, their perception of population collapse has seen them embrace theories of the Great Replacement, a racist conspiracy theory that posits that white demographics in the West are being driven by low fertility. Being reduced or diluted through capacity and non-breeding. -White migration to these countries, which is promoted by the powerful elite. White nationalist ideology has inspired mass shootings. Even before becoming Donald Trump's most prominent mega-donor, Musk was speaking out against immigrants, making baseless claims that President Biden allowed them to cross the US border illegally so they could vote for Democrats. . (Undocumented immigrants can't vote and have no path to citizenship.) Musk also contacted an ” supports the “flooding” of their countries by “hordes of minorities”. By writing: “You have spoken the real truth.”
Musk's apparent ambition to grow his lineage from a sprawling private compound in Austin, with the help of various women, is similar to the designs of another notorious billionaire: the late financier and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who built connections in the highest echelons of the world. The scientific community contemplated a plan to spread his DNA by impregnating women on his vast and remote farm in New Mexico. But Musk abandoned the option of building on several acres of land outside Austin and settled on a residential neighborhood instead.
And while theoretically he has the progeny to pack up his many houses, only Zilis and his children have moved in, Times Report. Musk and Grimes are currently embroiled in a custody battle, while Musk's first wife, Justine Musk – the mother of his five children – has described herself as “separated” from him. His 20-year-old daughter, Vivian Wilson, who is transgender, disowned him when she turned 18 and legally changed her name and gender. Musk said in an interview this year that he believed Wilson to be dead, having died from what he called the “woke mind virus”, after which Wilson hit back on social media, claiming Musk was an absentee father. And they had distorted the facts of his infection. (Wilson, meanwhile, has said that his mother is “very supportive.”)
Nearly all of Musk's children have been conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF), and Times Reportedly he is a supporter of reproductive technology because it allows parents greater control over the pregnancy. While Trump has voiced general support for IVF access, anti-abortion Republicans, including Vance, have argued against it, because it requires the fertilization of multiple embryos, some of which may later be destroyed. The GOP has made efforts at the state level to strip IVF rights, while Senate Republicans continue to block bills that would guarantee federal IVF protections. Musk has given at least $12.4 million this year to help the GOP retake the Senate.
In a remote interview Tuesday at the Future Investment Initiative Summit organized by the Saudi non-profit, Musk again said the falling birth rate is currently the biggest threat to humanity, calling it a “crisis.”