Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov has revealed plans to bequeath his estimated $17 billion fortune to his 106 biological children, though they won’t see a cent until 2055.
In a recent interview with French magazine Le Point, the 40-year-old tech entrepreneur shared that the 30-year delay is designed to encourage his children to develop self-reliance and lead independent lives before inheriting wealth.
“I wrote my will very recently,” Durov said. “My children will only have access to the inheritance 30 years from now. I want them to live like ordinary people, to build themselves, to learn independence, and not be reliant on a bank account.”
Durov emphasized that all 106 children whether conceived naturally or via sperm donation will receive equal rights to his estate.
“They are all my children and will all have the same rights. I don’t want them fighting over inheritance after I’m gone.”
He disclosed that six children were conceived naturally with three women, while the remaining were born through anonymous sperm donations over the past 15 years, in at least 12 countries.
“The clinic where I first donated sperm originally to help a friend told me that over 100 children were conceived this way,” he said.
According to estimates from Bloomberg and Forbes, each child could eventually inherit between $131 million and $161 million, depending on Durov’s net worth at the time.
The announcement comes amid Durov’s ongoing legal troubles in France. In August 2024, he was briefly detained at Le Bourget Airport near Paris following a flight from Azerbaijan.
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