{"id":1781,"date":"2025-06-21T07:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T07:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1781\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T07:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T07:53:07","slug":"telegram-founder-pavel-durov-says-all-his-100-plus-children-will-receive-share-of-his-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1781\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegram founder Pavel Durov says all his 100-plus children will receive share of his estate"},"content":{"rendered":"

DUBAI \u2014 Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of instant messaging app Telegram, plans to leave his fortune to the more than 100 children he has fathered.<\/p>\n

The Russian-born tech tycoon has revealed that his estate will be split between his six children from relationships and the scores of others whom he fathered through sperm donation.<\/p>\n

In a wide-ranging interview published Thursday in French political magazine Le Point<\/a>, 40-year-old Durov revealed that he does not differentiate between his legal children with three different women and those conceived with the sperm he donated.<\/p>\n

“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,” he said, after revealing that he recently wrote his will.<\/p>\n

Durov revealed<\/a> the number of children he has fathered on his social media last year. He said a doctor told him that it was his “civic duty” to donate his “high quality donor material,” which he did over the course of 15 years.<\/p>\n

According to Bloomberg<\/a>, Durov is worth an estimated $13.9 billion, but he dismissed such estimates as “theoretical,” telling Le Point: “Since I’m not selling Telegram, it doesn’t matter. I don’t have this money in a bank account. My liquid assets are much lower \u2013 and they don’t come from Telegram: they come from my investment in bitcoin in 2013.”<\/p>\n

Regardless, his children will have a long wait for their inheritance. He said: “I decided that my children would not have access to my fortune until a period of 30 years has elapsed, starting from today. 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. 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.”<\/p>\n

When asked why he has written his will now, Durov, who lives in Dubai, said: “My work involves risks \u2013 defending freedoms earns you many enemies, including within powerful states. I want to protect my children, but also the company I created, Telegram. I want Telegram to forever remain faithful to the values I defend.”<\/p>\n

Telegram, which has more than a billion monthly users, is known for its high-level encryption and limited oversight on what its users post.<\/p>\n

Last year, Durov was arrested in Paris on charges relating to a host of crimes, including allegations that his platform was complicit in aiding money launderers, drug traffickers and people spreading child pornography.<\/p>\n

Durov, who is Telegram’s sole shareholder, has denied the charges, which he described as “absurd.”<\/p>\n

“Just because criminals use our messaging service among many others doesn’t make those who run it criminals,” he told the French magazine.<\/p>\n

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