Telegram founder Pavel Durov says all his 100+ children will receive share of his estate

Channel 3000 News/CNN ^ | June 20, 2025 | CNN Bitter LOSERS

[Diana in Wisconsin]

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.

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.

In a wide-ranging interview published Thursday in French political magazine Le Point, 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.

“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.

Durov revealed 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.

According to Bloomberg, 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 – and they don’t come from Telegram: they come from my investment in bitcoin in 2013.”

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."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Society
KEYWORDS: durov; inheritance; telegram

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"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.”

[wardaddy]

Strange man
He’s got to get out of French house arrest. First

[wardaddy]

Just for the record I prefer to have relationships with my kids

And baring a miracle it won’t be the estate I hoped though they had a fine time

[nuconvert]

“fathered through sperm donation.”

So, not anonymous?

[Mount Athos]

He thinks he might be killed soon, that’s why he is doing major estate planning.

[metmom]

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.

I wonder how much the doctor was paid and by whom to convince him to do that.

[TangoLimaSierra]

I was wondering what happened to dad.
Hey, daddy, call me.

[9YearLurker]

Musk in competition here?