Elon Musk and Grimes have secretly welcomed their third child, claims a new biography of the Tesla CEO.
According to The New York Times’ preview of Musk’s biography, written by journalist Walter Isaason and due out on September 12, Musk, 52, and Grimes, 35 — whose real name is Claire Boucher — welcomed a third child, a son named Techno Mechanicus, who also goes under “Tau”.
It is not clear if the upcoming biography of the Space X founder contains more details about the child, including when and where he was born.
Representatives for Musk and Grimes did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
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Grimes opens up about co-parenting with Elon Musk as she calls their two children ‘little engineers’
Musk and Grimes welcomed a son, X Æ A-12, whose name was later changed to X Æ A-Xii and nicknamed “X”, on May 4, 2020.
They then had a daughter born via surrogate in December 2021, named Exa Dark Sideræl, nicknamed “Y”, three months after they publicly broke up after three years together.
In March 2022 vanity fair In an interview revealing the birth of Exe Dark, Grimes admitted the former couple wanted more babies, telling the tabloid: “We always wanted at least three or four.”
But on the day the article was published, the “Genesis” singer tweeted that the couple had broken up again.
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SpaxeX founder Elon Musk (left) and Canadian musician Grimes (Claire Boucher) at the 2018 Space X Hyperloop Pod Competition, in Hawthorne, Calif., on July 22, 2018.
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In addition to the three children he shares with Grimes, Musk is also the father of six children with his ex-wife, Canadian writer Justine Wilson.
Musk had his first son, Nevada Alexander, with Wilson in 2002, but he died of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) at the age of 10 weeks.
The former couple then had twins Vivian Jenna Wilson and Griffin. One of Musk’s now 18-year-old twins has filed for a legal name and gender change and said she no longer wants to be related to her father, according to court documents obtained by PEOPLE.
Wilson then gave birth to triplets named Kai, Saxon and Damian in 2006, two years after having their twins.
Musk later secretly welcomed another pair of twins, son Strider and daughter Azure, with Shivon Zilis in November 2021, according to court documents he released Informed July 6. The twins were born in Austin, Texas — just weeks before he and Grimes welcomed their daughter together.
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Grimes opened up about co-parenting with Musk in an interview with Wired last month, saying they are in the process of figuring out what their children’s educational journeys will look like.
“I really care about having a very good relationship with my children. I think I understand how to be a good parent to them. And discipline and be a friend to them,” she said. “Who knows, maybe they will resent me and reject the family culture, but I feel they won’t.”
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