Elon Musk reveals details about his new baby with Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis – his 12th child – after he was accused of keeping the birth a secret [Video]

18:57 EDT 23 Jun 2024, updated 04:56 EDT 24 Jun 2024

Elon Musk has confirmed he recently had a third baby with Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis, who works for his brain implant company.

Musk, 52, was accused of keeping the birth of the child – his 12th overall – a secret, after news of the birth was made public through media reports.

The billionaire businessman says there was never any intention to keep it under wraps, but that putting out a press release would also have been ‘bizarre’, although the baby’s name and gender have not been revealed.

‘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”‘, Musk said to Page Six, about the birth. 

The baby, believed to have been born earlier this year, was mentioned for the first time in a report by Bloombergentitled ‘Elon Wants You to Have …