Elon Musk has confirmed the birth of his 12th child and denied claims he tried to keep the baby’s arrival ‘secret’.
It’s the 52-year-old’s third child with Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis, with whom he also had twins in November 2021.
Musk, who alongside Neuralink is also the founder of SpaceX and Tesla, is understood to have welcomed his new baby early this year – but the arrival only became public knowledge over the weekend.
The billionaire denied claims he had tried to keep the child’s arrival under wraps but claimed that issuing a press release about it would have been ‘bizarre’.
Musk, who is known to be concerned over population decline, told PageSix on Sunday night: ‘As for ‘secretly fathered,’ that is also false.
‘All our friends and family know. Failure to issue a press release, which would be bizarre, does not mean ‘secret’.’
The baby’s name and gender have not yet been publicly revealed, but their arrival was first referenced in a report by Bloomberg published on Friday called ‘Elon wants you to have more babies’.
The article discussed South African-born Musk’s keen interest in population rates, with PageSix reporting that he had also sent ‘a link to statistics on fertility rates from the World Bank Group’ alongside commenting on many countries being ‘well below replacement rate’ in terms of babies being born.
Musk and Zilis welcomed twins Strider and Azure just one month before the birth of two-year-old daughter Exa Dark Sideræl, also known as Y, who Musk had with musician Grimes via surrogacy.
He and Grimes also have son X Æ A-Xii, four, and their youngest son Techno Mechanicus, known as Tau, whose birth was revealed in a biography on Musk published last September.
His older children number twins, Griffin and Vivian, and triplets Kai, Saxon and Damian, who he had with ex-wife, Canadian author Justine Wilson.
The former couple’s eldest child, Nevada, tragically died at 10 weeks of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS.