Elon Musk Says Partner Shivon Zilis Is Half-Indian, Son’s Middle Name Sekhar Honors Nobel Laureate Chandrasekhar

Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 08:43am on 01 Dec 2025,Monday India Global

Elon Musk said his partner, Shivon Zilis, is half-Indian and was given up for adoption as a baby. Speaking on Nikhil Kamath's podcast, Musk revealed that one of their sons has the middle name “Sekhar,” after Indian-American physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. Zilis grew up in Canada and now works at Musk’s AI company, Neuralink, as Director of Operations and Special Projects. She has a degree in Economics and Philosophy from Yale. The couple has four children: twins Strider and Azure, daughter Arcadia, and son Seldon Lycurgus. Musk praised Indian talent in the US amid rising visa restrictions. (PC: NDTV)

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