Who is Siobhan Zilis: what is known about the mother of three of Ilon Musk's children

American entrepreneur and head of the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Ilon Musk went out for the first time with Siobhan Zilis - the mother of his three children. The couple attended the inauguration ceremony of the new President of the United States Donald Trump on January 20. About who is Zilis and in what relationship she is with the owner of Tesla, read in the material "Izvestia".

Who is Siobhan Zilis, biography

Siobhan Zilis was born in 1986 in the Canadian city of Markham in the Ontario region. Since childhood, she had two passions: sports and artificial intelligence. As a teenager, Musk's future companion played hockey as a goalie. After high school, she enrolled at Yale University in the United States, where she joined the student hockey team.

In 2008, Zilis graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics and philosophy and took a job at IBM, one of the world's largest hardware and software companies. Later, she started working with Bloomberg Beta venture fund, actively investing in developments in data processing and machine learning. This led to Zilis making Forbes magazine's list in 2015 as one of the top 30 investors under 30.

In 2016, Zilis joined the board of directors of OpenAI, one of whose best-known products was the generative artificial intelligence chatbot Chat GPT. This position she held until 2023.

From 2017 to 2019, Zilis was the director of artificial intelligence-related projects at Ilon Musk's Tesla. In particular, she was involved in the development of autopilot programs and chip design. In addition, since 2017, Siobhan became an employee of another company of the billionaire - Neuralink, specializing in the development of implantable neurochips. She is now among the top managers of the company.

Siobhan Zilis and Ilon Musk - the history of the relationship

According to the media, Zilis met Musk when she started working at OpenAI. Initially, her relationship with the businessman was not romantic, however, they closely communicated not only on work issues. Thus, in 2020, the girl supported the billionaire in social networks when he came into conflict with the leadership of the state of California because of the introduction of strict coronavirus restrictions. She also kept Musk company while playing the turn-based strategy game Polytopia, which he became interested in in 2021.

In August 2021, Zilis and Musk gave birth to twins Azure and Strider. At that time, the Tesla founder was in a relationship with singer Grimes (real name Claire Bouchet), in a few weeks the couple was to have a second child, which was carried by a surrogate mother. At the same time, Zilis herself stated that there was nothing between her and Musk, and the billionaire simply acted as a donor of biomaterial for IVF. Nevertheless, as Business Insider notes, in 2022, after his divorce from Grimes, the entrepreneur lived in Siobhan's house.

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In early 2024, Zilis gave birth to another child with Musk, whose gender and name have not yet been revealed. In January 2025, she went out for the first time with the billionaire, attending the inauguration of Donald Trump. Before that, the couple did not appear at events of this level. In the media and social networks spread speculation that such a step can be considered an official announcement of the affair, but no statements about the status of their relationship Musk and Zilis have not yet made.

How many children Ilon Musk has

To date, Ilon Musk is the father of 12 children. The businessman's first son Nevada, born in marriage to writer Justine Wilson, died at the age of 10 weeks due to sudden infant death syndrome. The couple later had five more children: twins Griffin and Xavier and triplets Damian, Saxon and Kai.

Three children appeared at the billionaire during the relationship with Grimes. The singer bore him two sons, X Æ A-12 (X Æ A-12) and Techno Mechanicus, and a daughter, Exa Dark Sidiriel. The mother of three more children was Siobhan Zilis.