Every Woman Elon Musk Has Children With — and What They’ve Said About Their Blended Family

Elon Musk is the father of 12 kids, most recently welcoming his youngest, with Shivon Zillis, in early 2024.

The Tesla founder fathered his children with three different women over two decades. His first child was born in 2002 and his most recent baby was born in early 2024.

Musk welcomed his first six kids with his ex-wife, Justine Wilson, between 2002 and 2006. In the years that followed, he welcomed children with singer-songwriter Grimes and Neuralink Corp.’s director Shivon Zilis.

The arrival of Musk’s 12th child was confirmed in June 2024; the SpaceX CEO revealed that he and Zilis welcomed the new baby earlier in the year, but said he didn’t “secretly” father the child.

Over the years, Musk and his partners have requested privacy for their children amid speculation about the unusual arrangement. In September 2023, Grimes posted on X (formerly Twitter) in September 2023 in an attempt to “de-escalate the narrative” after she and the entrepreneur welcomed their third baby together soon after Musk welcomed children with Zilis.

Musk was also in a relationship with Talulah Riley, though the couple never had children together. They married and divorced twice, the first lasting from 2010 to 2012 and the second from 2013 to 2016.

Musk and his ex-wife, Justine Wilson, wed in 2000 and divorced in 2008. They had six kids together: Nevada Alexander, Vivian Jenna, Griffin, Kai, Saxon and Damian

The pair welcomed their first baby, Nevada Alexander, in 2002. Sadly, at 10 weeks old, he passed away from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Wilson, a Canadian author, penned an essay for Marie Claire in 2010 about the experience.

“I buried my feelings … coping with Nevada’s death by making my first visit to an IVF clinic less than two months later. Elon and I planned to get pregnant again as swiftly as possible. Within the next five years, I gave birth to twins, then triplets,” she wrote.

Musk and Wilson had twins, Vivian and Griffin, through IVF in 2004. In April 2022, Vivian filed to legally change her name and gender and said she no longer wishes to be related to her father, according to court documents obtained by PEOPLE.

Two years after giving birth to twins, the then-couple welcomed triplets named Kai, Saxon, and Damian in 2006. Wilson revealed in a 2017 TedTalk that they were also conceived via IVF, but she and Musk have not publicly discussed the children themselves.

Wilson grew up in southern Ontario and majored in English literature at Queen’s University, where she met Musk. She published her first novel, BloodAngel, in 2005 and continues to write. Per her Simon and Schuster author page, she’s also an active blogger on LiveJournal under the user name “moschus.”

It is unclear whether Wilson remarried after she and Musk divorced.

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Musk and Grimes had an on again-off again relationship beginning in 2018. Together, they share three children: X Æ A-Xii, Exa Dark Sideræl and Techno Mechanicus.

Grimes (whose real name is Claire Boucher) is a Canadian musician and record producer who made her public debut with Musk at the 2018 Met Gala. She described her relationship with the billionaire entrepreneur as “very fluid” in an interview for the cover story for Vanity Fair’s April 2022 issue.

The pair welcomed their first child, son, X Æ A-Xii, together in May 2020. Their daughter, Exa Dark Sideræl, was born via surrogate in December 2021. The birth date of their third child, son Techno Mechanicus, hasn’t been made public.

Grimes and Musk have opened up about the unique names of their children, particularly X Æ A-Xii (nicknamed “X”), who was named by the singer. The baby’s name was originally named X Æ A-12, but was later changed to X Æ A-Xii.