Is billionaire Elon Musk’s girlfriend, Canadian singer Grimes, pregnant with his sixth child?
The Canadian singer posted a photo on Instagram alluding to a pregnancy, and social media thinks the Tesla CEO may soon be welcoming his sixth child
Elon Musk might be preparing to welcome his sixth child.
The Tesla CEO’s on-again, off-again girlfriend, Canadian singer Grimes, posted a nude photo on Instagram hinting that she is pregnant, even implying that she is “knocked up” in the comments of another now-deleted post.
A notorious workaholic, Musk is a father of five. The entrepreneur has previously said that he spends most of his free time at the office or in factories, retreating to one of several Los Angeles mansions he owns at the end of the day with his five other children.
A representative for Musk did not immediately respond to Business Insider’s request for comment on the speculation that the couple is expecting.
Despite a net worth currently hovering around US$30.2 billion, Musk has never taken a pay cheque from Tesla, refusing his US$56,000 minimum salary every year. In January, Tesla announced it would pay Musk nothing for the next 10 years – no salary, bonuses, or stock – until the company reaches a US$100 billion market cap. If and when that happens, Musk could potentially overtake Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos as the richest person in the world.
How did Musk amass his fortune?
As a child growing up in South Africa, Musk taught himself to code. By the time he was 12, he sold the source code for his first video game for US$500.
Just before his 18th birthday, Musk moved to Canada and worked a series of hard labour jobs, including shovelling grain, cutting logs and eventually cleaning out the boiler room in a timber mill for US$18 an hour – an impressive wage in 1989. Musk got a pay cut to US$14 an hour when he started a summer internship alongside his brother, Kimbal, at the Bank of Nova Scotia after cold-calling – and impressing – a top executive there.