Pavel durovThe billionaire co -founder of the Telegram messaging application, says he has begotten more than 100 children and plans to leave the estimated fortune of $ 17 billion.
In an interview with the French magazine Point Published on Thursday, June 19, the 40 -year -old Russian entrepreneur said he has six “officers” children, but he has begotten dozens more through sperm donation.
“Six of who I am the official father, whom I had with three different partners,” said Durov. “The others come from my anonymous donation. The clinic, where I started giving sperm fifteen years ago to help a friend, told me that more than 100 babies had been conceived in this way in 12 countries.”
Durov has an estimated net value of $ 17.1 billion, according to ForbiddenAnd he plans to divide his fortune among all his children. However, they will have to wait until they are older to access their inheritance.
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“I decided that my children would not have access to my fortune until a period of thirty years had passed, as of today,” said Durov. “I want them to live as normal people, to build themselves, to learn to trust themselves, to be able to create, not to depend on a bank account.”
“I want to specify that I make no difference between my children: there are those who were conceived naturally and those who come from my sperm donations. They are all my children and they will all have the same rights! I don’t want them to break each other after my death.”
Durov opened on his important offspring in a Telegram post In July 2024, writing: “I was told that I have more than 100 biological children. How is it possible for a boy who has never married and prefer to live alone?”
The billionaire said that a friend approached him to ask for a sperm donation several years earlier because “he and his wife could not have children because of a fertility problem.”
Durov said he agreed and that “the head of the clinic told me that” high quality donor material “was in a small supply and that it was my civic duty to give more sperm to help anonymously more couples.”
“He advanced quickly until 2024, my donor activity has helped more than a hundred couples from 12 countries to have children,” he said.
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Durov shared his DNA “open” for “open source” so that my biological children can be more easily found, “adding that he did not regret being a donor.
Durov co -founded the telegram with his older brotherNikolai Durovin 2013. In August 2024, Durov was arrested and accused in France for accusations, including complicity in the distribution of child pornography and drug trafficking in relation to Telegram, which has a billion active monthly users. He has denied all charges against him.
“It’s totally absurd. Just because criminals use our messaging service among many others, it does not make those who run it. Point On Thursday. “Nothing has ever been shown by proved that I am even for a second, guilty of anything.”
