Women in Moscow have been lining up…Billionaire With 100 Kids Pays Women to Use His Sperm

Women in Moscow have been lining up at a fertility clinic for an unusual offering: free access to sperm from Telegram founder and billionaire Pavel Durov, according to the Wall Street Journal. Durov, 41, says he has fathered more than 100 children in at least a dozen countries through sperm donations, in addition to six children with three partners.

The donations were intentional. A Moscow fertility clinic, AltraVita, has publicly promoted Durov’s frozen sperm, describing him as having “high genetic compatibility.” The clinic has offered to cover IVF costs for women under 37 who choose to use his donor material. Interest grew further this summer after Durov told a French magazine that all of his biological children would be entitled to equal shares of his estate, provided they can verify a genetic link.

Forbes estimates Durov’s net worth at about $17 billion, largely from Telegram. He has said he plans to transfer ownership of the messaging platform to a nonprofit foundation and has also disclosed holding a significant amount of bitcoin. A new biography by Russian writer Nikolay Kononov, cited by the Guardian, details how Durov began donating sperm around 2010—initially to help a friend, and later, he says, to address what he views as a global shortage of high-quality sperm donors. Although he stopped donating years ago, he says his stored samples at AltraVita remain available.

Durov has framed his actions as a response to declining global sperm counts and broader demographic concerns. He has warned of what he describes as an approaching “dark, dystopian world” driven by biological decline, according to the Journal.

His views place him among a small group of ultra-wealthy tech figures who openly connect personal reproduction with larger demographic and technological debates. Elon Musk, for example, jokingly referred to Durov’s reported number of children as “rookie numbers,” comparing them to the legacy attributed to Genghis Khan.

At the same time, Durov’s expanding biological footprint coincides with ongoing personal and legal challenges. He is involved in a financial and custody dispute with a former partner in Switzerland, which his spokesperson says is an attempt to extract money. He also faces charges in France related to alleged criminal activity conducted through Telegram—accusations he has denied.

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