Musk’s biggest loyalist became his biggest liability
Source: The Verge
Testimony Overview
I sat down in the Musk v. Altman trial courtroom today, painfully aware that no one was going to ask Shivon Zilis the question on everyone’s minds: Girl, what the fuck are you doing?
Zilis, who testified under oath that she is the mother of four of Musk’s children, was… what’s the best way to characterize this?
- Role: She denies being a “chief of staff,” but says she worked for Musk’s “entire AI portfolio: Tesla, Neuralink, and OpenAI” starting in 2017.
- Connection: The two met through OpenAI.
- Relationship: She described a “one‑off” encounter that was “romantic in nature” before they became “friends and colleagues.”