Telegram CEO to Leave Fortune to 100 Children He’s Fathered (1)

June 19, 2025, 4:59 PM UTC

Telegram billionaire founder and Chief Executive Officer Pavel Durov plans to leave his vast fortune to the more than 100 children he’s fathered, according to an interview with France’s Le Point magazine.

Durov said he’s the official father of six children with three different partners. He also started sperm donation fifteen years ago and said more than 100 babies had been conceived that way. He doesn’t want his kids to touch his fortune for 30 years.

He’s worth $13.9 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Pavel Durov
Photographer: Thomas Samson/AFP/Getty Images

“I want to specify that I make no difference between my children: ...

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