It would seem Durov wants more children. He funded IVF treatments for women who would have his babies.
A spokesperson at the AltraVita IVF Clinic in Moscow previously told Business Insider that the fertility program is only open to Russian women. Treatment would normally cost about $5,000, the spokesperson said.
Durov has found himself enmeshed in the pronatalist crowd — that is, people who believe they have to fight declining fertility rates by having many children.
Durov made sperm donations multiple times, resulting in him fathering “over 100 biological kids” in a dozen countries, he said in a Telegram post in July.
“The shortage of healthy sperm has become an increasingly serious issue worldwide, and I’m proud that I did my part to help alleviate it,” Durov said in the post. “I also want to help destigmatize the whole notion of sperm donation and incentivize more healthy men to do it, so that families struggling to have kids can enjoy more options.”
He told Le Point he’s officially the father of six children, whom he’s had with three different partners. Despite his fortune, he wants them to learn the value of hard work.
“I decided that my children would not have access to my fortune until a period of thirty 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,” he told the outlet.
