

Elon Musk and Grimes. Kevin Tachman/Getty Photographs for Vogue
Elon Musk and ex-girlfriend Grimes have reportedly welcomed their third child collectively.
Whereas neither Musk, 52, nor Grimes, 35, have publicly shared the announcement, a brand new biography of the businessman briefly referred to Grimes as “the mom of three of Musk’s youngsters.” Walter Isaacson’s e book — which was reviewed by The New York Occasions on Saturday, September 9 — allegedly revealed the “existence of” child No. 3, who was beforehand saved personal. The biography indicated that the pair named their infant Techno Mechanicus, affectionately nicknamed “Tau.”
Grimes even advised Isaacson within the tome that she calls Techno’s offended outbursts his “demon mode” that in flip “causes a number of chaos,” however insists that’s how he accomplishes job. It isn’t publicly identified when Techno was born. Us Weekly has reached out for remark.
The Tesla CEO and Grimes began courting in 2018. They welcomed their first youngster, son X Æ A-Xii, in Could 2020. Their daughter, Exa Darkish Sideræl, arrived by way of surrogate one yr later in December 2021.
“I don’t know what I used to be pondering,” Grimes (actual title is Claire Boucher) advised Vainness Truthful in March 2022 about initially holding the child information personal. “No matter is happening with household stuff, I simply really feel like children want to remain out of it, and X is simply on the market. I imply, I believe E is basically seeing him as a protégé and bringing him to every thing and stuff.… X is on the market. His state of affairs is like that. However, yeah, I don’t know.”
The “Oblivion” singer, who calls her daughter “Y,” additionally advised the outlet that she wished “no less than three or 4” children in whole.
Exa’s arrival got here weeks after Musk welcomed a pair of twins with Neuralink govt Shivon Zilis in November 2021. In response to July 2022 courtroom paperwork obtained by Insider, Zilis, 37, petitioned a decide to vary her youngsters’s final title to Musk to match their father’s moniker. The title change was granted the earlier Could.
Per a Time journal excerpt of Isaacson’s biography earlier this month, Musk and Zilis named their twins, now 16 months, Strider and Azure. Time additionally revealed the primary pictures of the toddlers.
Zilis spoke to Isaacson for the e book, which was excerpted by the New York Occasions of their Saturday evaluate. “He actually desires sensible individuals to have children,” Zilis stated of Musk, noting he supplied to be her sperm donor so “the youngsters can be genetically his.”
Along with his children with Grimes and Zilis, Musk — who break up from Grimes for good in 2022 — shares six youngsters with ex-wife Justine Wilson.
Musk and Wilson, 51, have been married between 2000 and 2008. They share twins Vivian and Griffin, each 18, and triplets Kai, Saxon and Damian, all 17. The SpaceX CEO and Wilson additionally shared son Nevada, who died of Sudden Toddler Loss of life Syndrome at 10 weeks.