Elon Musk Confirms He And Grimes Privately Welcomed A Third Child, Techno Mechanicus
Elon Musk and Grimes welcomed their third child in person, the tech mogul confirmed Saturday via X (Musk's social media platform, formerly known as Twitter).
Musk confirmed the baby's existence after a New York Times investigation into an upcoming biography of SpaceX co-founder Walter Isaacson mentioned the baby. It was previously known that the billionaire and the Miss Anthropocene actress have a three-year-old son and a one-year-old daughter.
Musk said about it in his post.
The baby was born via surrogate in June 2022, according to a copy of the original biography obtained by the Los Angeles Times. The boy's nickname, Tau, was inspired by "the Greek letter representing the irrational number twice pi," the report said. . explains his biography. The supposed number of 6.28 also refers to Musk's birthday, June 28.
More about the Musk family can be found in Isaacson's 688-page book, Elon Musk, published Tuesday. Read an exclusive excerpt from his biography here.
The revelation comes less than a week after Grimes responded to an X-rated post promoting Isaacson's biography and sharing a photo of Musk with his two children. The experimental pop musician later deleted his reply, which read: “Tell Elon to show me my son or reply to my lawyer. "Until now, I have never been allowed to see the photos of these children, even though the situation has completely destroyed my family."
Representatives for Grimes and X did not respond to requests for comment from The Times on Friday.
Grimes, 35, and Musk, 52, lived from 2018 to 2022. In May 2020, the couple welcomed a son, X Æ A-Xii, and a daughter, Axa Dark Sideel, in December 2021.