Tech tycoon and billionaire founder of messaging platform Telegram, Pavel Durov, has announced he will leave his £ 17 billion to the more than 100 children he has fathered.
Durov, 40, has six children with three different partners in addition to around 100 more due to the sperm he donated on a mass scale to dozens of couples in 12 different countries.
Speaking in a recent interview with France‘s Le Point magazine, Durov said that he saw no difference between the children he conceived naturally and those who came from donations.
‘They are all my children and will all have the same rights.
.’I don’t want them to tear each other apart after my death but none of them will get any cash for 30 years, he revealed.
‘I want them to live normally, to build their lives on their own, to learn to trust themselves, to be able to create, not to be dependent on a bank account’. He said.
Massive Sperm Donations
The billionaire first revealed that he had fathered several children via sperm donation last year after a Russian woman based in Switzerland claimed that he was the father to her three children.
Irina Bolgar, 44, claimed in Russian Forbes that Durov had fathered her daughter and two sons, born in St Petersburg in 2013, 2016 and 2017, and that they carry his name. She also posted pictures of herself and her children.
Durov’s sperm donations began as a favor to a friend before becoming a norm, as clinic staff encouraged him to continue donating due to what they described as the exceptionally high quality of his genetic material.
