5 shock revelations from the new Elon Musk biography: he had a ‘brutal’ love affair with Amber Heard and got Shivon Zilis pregnant with twins while dating Grimes – who once wore a Tesla logo dress

Sep 21 , 2023

Billionaire Elon Musk has a new biography published, written by Walter Isaacson. Photo: AFP

Renowned biographer Walter Isaacson chronicled tech billionaire Elon Musk’s life in an eponymous new book, released on September 12, after shadowing the Tesla boss for two years

From his relationships with Talulah Riley, Amber Heard and first wife Justine to donating sperm to a Neuralink exec, he continues to surprise us – and even had a say in Grimes’ 2018 Met Gala ‘fit

Walter Isaacson is an experienced biographer, covering the lives of remarkable public figures like Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Jennifer Doudna and Steve Jobs.

His latest book about one of the world’s richest (and most controversial) men, Elon Musk, has given new insight into the tech billionaire. Isaacson spent two years shadowing Musk, getting unprecedented access to the X (formerly Twitter) boss as well as his friends, family and colleagues.

Elon Musk joins other tech leaders attending the Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight Forum in the Russell Senate Building on Capitol Hill, in Washington DC, US, on September 13. Photo: EPA-EFE

The biography, titled simply Elon Musk, was released on September 12 and is filled with intimate details about the billionaire’s life, from his early life in South Africa to his relationships and his desire for “smart people” to have kids.

So what are the book’s biggest revelations?

Elon Musk’s “secret” twins with Shivon Zilis

Shivon Zilis is a Neuralink exec who had twins with Elon Musk. Photo: @shivon/Twitter

Shivon Zilis, the Neuralink executive who has twins with Musk, revealed in the book that she and the billionaire never actually dated. Zilis told Isaacson that Musk donated his sperm so that her children would be genetically his. She explained that “he really wants smart people to have kids, so he encouraged me to”.

She added that she assumed Musk would not be a big part of the children’s lives, but has been surprised to see him bonding with the twins – a boy named Strider Sekhar Sirius and a girl named Azure.