In an interview, Pavel Durov, the billionaire founder of Telegram, reveals that he recognizes a staggering number of children... who will all be entitled to an equal share of his enormous fortune. And he explains why.
Some billionaires have built up a fairly large family over the course of several couples or marriages. For example, we know that Elon Musk—who campaigns quite insistently for billionaires to have more offspring—has acknowledged (at least) seven natural children. But there's more: with Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, we're entering another universe. Light years away from that of the founder of SpaceX.
At forty, the young billionaire, who became a French citizen in 2021, revealed in an interview that he will leave his fortune, upon his death, to around a hundred natural children. You read that right. The information comes from the magazine Le Point, which was able to speak with the entrepreneur. He explains that he has given birth to more than 100 children, and that each will receive a share of a jackpot estimated at the time of writing at $13.9 billion.
Pavel Durov has more than 100 natural children!
There's actually a rather surprising reason why he acknowledges so many children. Officially, he is the father of six children from three different couples. Before adding“The clinic where I started donating sperm fifteen years ago to help a friend told me that more than 100 babies had been conceived this way in twelve countries.”.
And the billionaire continued:“They are all my children and they will all have the same rights! I don't want them to tear each other apart after my death.” He further explains that there will be fairly strict rules for his legatees. None of them will be able to touch their inheritance for a period of thirty years.
“I want them to be able to live like normal people, to build their own lives, to learn to trust themselves, to remain capable of creating, and not be dependent on a bank account,” he explains. But why think about such sinister things at forty? In fact, Pavel Durov's life is as exposed as it is risky.
His work, he explains, involves "defending freedoms, which makes you many enemies, including many powerful states." More than a billion users use his encrypted messaging app. It has also been in the crosshairs of the French justice system for some time now.
The reason: his refusal to allow French authorities to access Telegram accounts on the sly—even though many drug dealers, hackers, conspiracy theorists, neo-Nazis, and more broadly, criminals of all stripes, use the messaging service as a central part of their operations. But Pavel Durov considers the proceedings against him in France to be "absurd.". He retorted that "just because criminals use [Telegram, editor's note] among many other services doesn't mean that those who run it are themselves criminals."
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