Shivon Zilis Testifies On ‘Platonic’ Beginnings, Secret Paternity, And Living With The Tech Billionaire

New Delhi : For years, the complicated personal life of the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, has piqued interest. The Tesla CEO has fathered 14 kids with four different women over two decades. Zilis said it started with a romantic one-off sometime in 2016 before Musk offered to father her children in 2020. However, their personal relationship wasn’t known publicly until 2022. By that time, she already had twins with Musk.

Musk left OpenAI after three years, after a fallout with Altman. Musk has now sued Altman and another co-founder, Greg Brockman, for attempting to illegally restructure the company from a non-profit to a for-profit enterprise. Where does Zilis fit in? Zilis worked with OpenAI from 2016 to 2023 and was also part of its board of directors for several years. During this time, she was also involved in a secret relationship with Musk. OpenAI lawyers suspect that she acted as an informant for the Tesla CEO.

She described her relationship with Musk as complicated. Zilis said it began with a “one-off” at a corporate off-site event sometime after she joined OpenAI in 2016. It eventually turned into a friendship. Zilis revealed that it was in 2020 when Musk approached her as a “platonic” sperm donor. At that time, they were not romantically involved.

Nevertheless, after Musk’s proposal, Zilis said she decided to have kids with him around early 2021. Zilis, who has worked at xAI and Tesla as well, was born to a Hindu mother and a Canadian father. Her Indian link is believed to be the reason why she accompanied Musk during his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in February 2025, when he visited Washington.

In her testimony, Zilis said she was made to sign an agreement that included keeping Musk’s paternity confidential. It was agreed that Musk would not be playing a major day-to-day role in the children’s lives. It was in 2021 that she first had twins with Musk via IVF. However, this was not disclosed to OpenAI. Zilis, in her testimony, said the confidentiality agreement with Musk prevented her from doing so.

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