Elon Musk Had a Baby With Ashley St. Clair, She Says, Which Makes Him the Father of At Least 13 Kids

Elon Musk may be sleeping on his office floor while he goes scorched-earth on the federal budget with DOGE, but a 26-year-old conservative children’s book author claims that he’s been bankrolling her downtown Manhattan apartment in exchange for her silence about carrying and birthing his child, now five months old.

Ashley St. Clair claimed in a post to X (incidentally, the name of one of Musk’s children with Grimes) that she had birthed Musk’s latest progeny, and that Musk was now ghosting her. In a statement captioned “Alea Iacta Est,” Latin for “the die is cast,” she wrote:

“Five months ago, I welcomed a new baby into the world. Elon Musk is the father.

I have not previously disclosed this to protect our child’s privacy and safety, but in recent days it has become clear that tabloid media intends to do so, regardless of the harm it will cause. I intend to allow our child to grow in a normal and safe environment. For that reason, I ask that the media honor our child’s privacy, and refrain from invasive reporting.”

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St. Clair, whose bio on the social media platform reads in part, “Press inquiries: Don’t inquire,” included contact information for press inquiries at the foot of her statement.

Speaking to the New York Post, St. Clair said that she was mother to a son, whose name she wants to keep secret and whom she claimed to have never taken on a walk outdoors.

According to St. Clair, she first met Musk on X, when “he slid into my DMs. I think it was a meme.” The two struck up a romance from there, she said. At the time, St. Clair was an operations employee for the Babylon Bee, a conservative satire website. She has also appeared as a talking head on Fox News, despairing over the falling birth rate in America, a favorite MAGA topic.

She claimed that she went public with news of her second child (she also has a toddler from a previous relationship) because she was being harassed by “a cohort of very violent stalkers” and also feared that a tabloid reporter who had pursued the story would reveal her.

“Almost every relationship in my life would be bastardized and disingenuous because I couldn’t tell them what was going on,” she said of her pregnancy and baby. “My son has never taken a walk outside—in five months. I have never been able to take my baby for a walk. I was terrified that someone would see I had a baby and it would get out.”

But also: “My child is the most perfect thing that happened to me. I wouldn’t change anything.”

St. Clair wrote the 2021 children’s book, Elephants Are Not Birds, described as an “unapologetic rebuke of transgender acceptance,” which was part of conservative children’s book publisher Brave Books’ debut lineup.

Musk, who did not respond to Vanity Fair’s request for comment, hasn’t directly issued any statements about St. Clair’s claim. On Saturday, he responded on X to Milo Yiannopoulos’s screenshot of a 2020 post of St. Clair’s where she joked about marrying Musk. “Woah,” he wrote. Succinct.

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In a since-deleted response to that post on X, according to screenshots, St. Clair had a few more choice words of her own.

“Elon, we have been trying to communicate for the past several days and you have not responded,” she wrote. “When are you going to reply to us instead of publicly responding to smears from an individual who just posted photos of me in underwear at 15 years old?”

Brian Glicklich, who is acting as a spokesperson for St. Clair, wrote in a statement on X Saturday that Musk and St. Clair “have been privately working towards the creation of an agreement about raising their child for some time.” Privacy is no longer an option due to what Glicklich characterized in the statement as an “ambush” from the tabloid reporter.

“We are waiting for Elon to publicly acknowledge his parental role with Ashley,” he wrote.

A source close to St. Clair confirmed to VF Monday that Musk has not been in touch with St. Clair since her announcement. If St. Clair’s allegations are true, her son is Musk’s 13th publicly known child, and she is the fourth woman known to have procreated with him. Musk is also known to have offered his sperm to multiple women, often unsolicited.

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