Telegram CEO Says He’ll Leave His Fortune to His 106+ Children

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is so obsessed with his own jizz that he’s spent years sending it to random women so they can inseminate themselves with it. As a result, the billionaire is said to have as many as 106 biological children. Now, Durov has promised that—in the event of his death—he will bequeath his massive fortune (reputed to be some $17 billion) to all of his wayward spawn.

Durov’s supposed plan was revealed during a recent interview with Le Point, a French news site. He revealed to the outlet that he recently wrote a will that details how his fortune is to be split amongst his unusually large brood.

Why does the Telegram executive have such a big family? Due to his relationships with three separate women, Durov says he is the “official father” of six children. However, because of his ongoing sperm donations to a Russian IVF clinic (Durov was born in Russia), he also has babies with another 100 women. Last year, the clinic announced that it was offering free treatment to women who were willing to accept the billionaire’s spunk. Durov has previously said he plans to “open-source” his own DNA so that all of his biological children “can find each other more easily.”

Even though he’s only raising half a dozen kids himself, the billionaire says he thinks about all of his children as equal to one another. “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,” he told the French news site. “They are all my children and will all have the same rights!”

Durov’s new will stipulates that his children will have access to their inheritance in thirty years. He says he wants to delay the payout so that his kids learn to be self-sufficient. “I want them to live like normal people, to build themselves up alone, to learn to trust themselves, to be able to create, not to be dependent on a bank account,” the billionaire said.

Durov seems to be contemplating the future of his family line due to his recent legal troubles. “My work involves risks,” he told Le Point. Durov’s site, Telegram, certainly involves risks, as it has been accused of being a hub for criminals, nazis, sexual predators, and terrorists. Last August, the Russian-born tech executive was arrested in Paris after he was accused of allowing criminal activity to flourish on the platform. Durov was ultimately released on $5.5 million bail, but he is barred from leaving France until the government’s investigation into the site is complete.

During the Le Point interview, Durov referred to the allegations against him as “absurd” and said that there was no evidence of his guilt. “Just because criminals use our messaging service among many others doesn’t make those who run it criminals,” he told the outlet. “Nothing has ever been proven showing that I am, even for a second, guilty of anything. But it seems I’m already being punished at this stage through the ban on leaving the territory.”