The founder of SpaceX and Tesla, Elon Musk, intends to create a “family complex” in Texas, where he wants to settle his children and their mothers, reports The New York Times.
The billionaire bought a house resembling a Tuscan villa and a nearby six-bedroom mansion for a total cost of around $35 million. About a ten-minute walk away is another house where the businessman often stays when he comes to Austin.
According to the NYT, in recent months Musk has often told his loved ones that he “imagines how his children, of whom there are at least 11, and two of his three mothers, would live in neighboring houses.” In this way, the businessman believes, his youngest children “could become part of each other’s lives” and Musk could plan how to spend time with them.
I already moved into one of the mansions. Siobhan ZilisCEO of Neuralink, Musk’s company that develops the world’s first minimally invasive neurochip. She and the businessman have three children. Singer Grimes (Claire Alice Boucher), who also had three children by the businessman, continues to sue the businessman for the right to custody and for now “remains on the sidelines,” the newspaper writes. There is also space in the complex for Musk’s first wife. Justinif he agrees to live next to the billionaire, the newspaper writes. She gave birth to five children of the businessman, but Musk does not maintain a relationship with at least one of them.
Musk is a supporter of the in vitro fertilization method, notes the NYT (the businessman’s children and his first wife were conceived through this procedure). According to the newspaper, the businessman offered his friends and acquaintances to become sperm donors, including a couple with whom he had communicated only a few times before. The lawyer and philanthropist also received a similar offer. Nicole Shanahanex-wife of Google founder Sergei Brinbut he refused, said the publication’s interlocutors.
According to Musk, “demographic collapse” is the biggest problem facing humanity. In 2021, the businessman called low birth rates “one of the biggest risks to civilization.” In December 2023, at a political event in Italy, the businessman stated that “if people do not have children, there will not be a new generation.”
Only a few demographers believe Musk’s forecasts, notes the NYT. In July, the United Nations said the world’s population, currently 8.2 billion, would increase by another 2 billion over the next 60 years, peaking at 10.3 billion. Then the population would gradually decline by about 700 million.
Musk is the richest man on the planet. Forbes and Bloomberg estimate his fortune at $268.2 billion, RBC recalls.
