About two years ago, Elon Musk made an offer to Nicole Shanahan, the Silicon Valley attorney who would go on to join Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s independent presidential campaign as his running mate, according to a report in The New York Times published on Tuesday.
Musk suggested to Shanahan that he could offer his sperm, via in vitro fertilization, should she want to expand her family, the Times reported, citing two people familiar with the conversation.
Shanahan, who has a child with her former husband, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, is said to have declined the overture.
In this combination image, Elon Musk attends The 2022 Met Gala Celebrating “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2022 in New York and Sergey Brin and Nicole Shanahan attend the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures: Opening Gala honoring Haile Gerima and Sophia Loren, and Museum Campaign Leadership Bob Iger, Annette Bening, and Tom Hanks; Gala Co-Chairs Jason Blum, Ava DuVernay, and Ryan Murphy on September 25, 2021 in Los Angeles, California.
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Shanahan was one of several people in his orbit whom Musk has offered to personally assist with conception, according to the report.
The Tesla CEO and world’s richest man often speaks in public about his concerns over declining birth rates in developing countries. He has fathered at least 11 children by three different women and is in the process of building out a large compound in Austin, Texas that, the Times reported, could serve as something of a home base for his large and unorthodox family.
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