Shivon Zilis breaks her silence after the abrupt split from Elon Musk: “It’s hard to go from being in love to having to let him go”
The top Neuralink executive has issued a statement on her social media
" Shivon Zilis , a senior executive at Neuralink, has publicly confirmed her abrupt romantic breakup with billionaire Elon Musk , with whom she shares four children . The news was made public through a statement she released on her social media, prompted by the fact that the magnate had unfollowed her on the X platform.
“It is difficult to go from being in love to having to let him go in a week and without prior warning, but that is how things sometimes are” , Zilis wrote, reflecting her pain over the decision. Despite the circumstances, the executive stated that she “has loved him more than life itself” and said that she will always wish the best for the businessman’s future.
Elon Musk's breakup with Shivon Zilis happened just one week after the last message
Her relationship initially began when the founder of Tesla and SpaceX acted as a sperm donor for their first twins (Strider and Azure), born in 2021. Later, the relationship evolved into a romantic bond centered on parenting and caregiving. The couple has four children: the twins born in 2021, Arcadia (born in 2024), and the youngest, Seldon Lycurgus, who was born in 2025.
According to his biographer Walter Isaacson, Zilis, who also worked for OpenAI and Tesla, was regarded more as an “intellectual companion” for Musk than a romantic partner in the traditional sense. “He has taught me the equivalent of a hundred lifetimes of wisdom and has made my cup overflow with vital meaning” , she added about the father of her four children.
The breakup occurred just a week after what appears to have been their last exchange of text messages, a screenshot of which was shared by the executive herself in her post. A situation that even the richest people in the world suffer in their own flesh.
