The Babies Kept in a Mysterious Los Angeles Mansion

The New Yorker
by Ava Kofman
February 9, 2026
Ava Kofman reports on Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang, the Los Angeles couple who ran Mark Surrogacy, an agency that they used to hire more than a dozen women to carry their children.
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Originally published on The New Yorker on 2/9/2026
The Babies Kept in a Mysterious Los Angeles Mansion