Telegram founder to leave a wealth of $ 17 billion to 100+ children

Pavil DorovThe founder of the Messaging App Telegram says he has given birth to more than 100 children – and plans to leave his estimated wealth of $ 17 billion.

In an interview with the French magazine Point On Thursday, June 19, the Russian entrepreneur, 40, said that he had six “official” children, but he gave birth to dozens by donating sperm.

“Six of whom I am the official father, who had with three different partners,” Dorov explained. “The others come from the unknown donation. The clinic told me, as I started donating sperm fifteen years ago to help a friend, that more than 100 children were imagined in this way in 12 countries.”

Dorov has a net value of $ 17.1 billion, according to ForbesHe intends to divide his wealth among all his children. However, they will have to wait until they grow up to reach their inheritance.

Dorov said: “I decided that my children would not be able to reach my fortune until a period of thirty years has passed, starting today,” Dorov said. “I want them to live like ordinary people, build themselves alone, learn to trust themselves, and be able to create, not relying on a bank account.”

He added: “I want to determine that I do not differentiate between my children: there are those who were imagined naturally and those who come from sperm donations. They are all my children and they will all get the same rights! I do not want them to tear each other after my death.”

Dorov opened his great offspring in a Post Telegram In July 2024, I wrote, “I just was told that I have more than 100 biological children. How can this be possible for a man who never married and prefer to live alone?”

The billionaire said that one of the friends approached him to request a donation of sperm several years ago because he and his wife could have had children because of the fertility problem. “

Dorov said that he agreed that “the head of the clinic told me that” high -quality donors “was in a lack of offer and that it was my civil duty to donate more sperm to help more couples.”

He said: “Quickly forward until 2024, the donation activity in the past helped more than a hundred husbands in 12 countries to have children.”

Dorov participated at the time that he intends to “open the” DNA “so that my biological children could find each other easily,” adding that he had no remorse to be a donor.

Dorov established a telegram with his older brotherNikolai DorovIn 2013. In August 2024, Dorouf was arrested and accused in France on charges of complicity in distributing pornography for children and drug trafficking in relation to telegram, which has a billion active monthly users. He denied all the charges against him.

“It is completely ridiculous. Just because criminals use our correspondence service from among many others, they do not make those who manage it criminals,” he said, he said, he said, he said, he said, he said, ” Point Thursday. “Nothing has been proven at all, so that, even for one second, guilty of anything.”