{"id":162270,"date":"2025-12-01T06:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/162270\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T06:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:37:08","slug":"elon-musk-reveals-partner-shivon-zilis-is-half-indian-sons-middle-name-sekhar-given-after-nobel-laureate-s-chandrasekhar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/162270\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk reveals partner Shivon Zilis is half-Indian, son\u2019s middle name \u2018Sekhar\u2019 given after Nobel laureate S Chandrasekhar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said his partner Shivon Zilis is \u201chalf-Indian\u201d and one of their children\u2019s middle name is \u2018Sekhar\u2019 after the Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of my sons with her is, his middle name is Sekhar, after Chandrasekhar,\u201d Musk said in an interview with investor and entrepreneur Nikhil Kamath on his show \u2018People by WTF\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>S Chandrasekhar was a renowned Indian-American astrophysicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983 \u201cfor his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if Zilis had spent any time in India, Musk said she was given up for adoption when she was a baby and grew up in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think her father was like an exchange student at the university, or something like that. I\u2019m not sure of the exact details, but, just kind of thing where I don\u2019t know&#8230; she was given up for adoption,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Musk has four children with Zilis &#8211; twins Strider and Azure, a daughter Arcadia and son Seldon Lycurgus. Zilis is a director of operations and special projects at one of Musk\u2019s companies Neuralink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said his partner Shivon Zilis is \u201chalf-Indian\u201d and one of their children\u2019s middle name&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-162270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}