On Friday, conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair announced that five months ago she had a baby with tech billionaire Elon Musk, head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
In a post on X, the Musk-owned platform on which she has a million followers, St. Clair said she was making the announcement to preempt the baby’s existence being revealed by “tabloid media” acting “regardless of the harm it will cause.”
Newsweek contacted Ashley St. Clair and Elon Musk, via the Tesla and SpaceX press offices, for comment via email on Saturday outside of regular office hours.
The Context
Musk was already known to having had 12 children via three different women, his ex-wife Justine Wilson, singer Grimes and Shivon Zilis, an executive at his company Neuralink. his first child with Wilson died just weeks after its birth in sudden infant death syndrome-related incident.
Over the years, Musk has spoken out repeatedly about declining human birth rates, warning in October 2024 this could lead to “mass extinction of entire nations” in October 2024.
What to Know
On Friday, St. Clair posted “Alea lacta Est” on X, Latin which roughly translates as “the die is cast,” along with a statement announcing the baby.
In the statement, St. Clair said her baby was born five months ago and that Musk was the father. She added that she had not previously disclosed this to protect the child’s privacy and safety.
There is come confusion over St. Clair’s age, with British tabloid The Sun saying she is 26, while the New York Post reports she is 31.
St. Clair wrote for satirical website the Babylon Bee, a conservative-leaning version of The Onion. The Babylon Bee had been banned from Twitter, now X, for awarding then Health and Human Services assistant secretary Dr. Rachel Levine, a transgender woman, its “man of the year” award in 2022. The account was reinstated after Musk purchased the platform.
In July 2021, St. Clair published Elephants Are Not Birds, a children’s book described as an “unapologetic rebuke of transgender acceptance.” In the book, a vulture called Culture tries to persuade an elephant named Kevin that he is also a bird, on the basis that he can sing well. Speaking to the Daily Mail, St. Clair said in the end Kevin “realizes he’s better the way he was made and he can like to sing and still be an elephant.”
St. Clair featured on conservative beer brand Ultra Right’s “Real Women of America 2024 Calendar,” which was released in December 2023. The calendar featured a number of young women in seductive poses, some in bikinis. St. Clair was pictured in a bubble bath wearing a black bra and pearl necklace, in an apparent reference to a video released by transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney for Bud Light.
The calendar sparked a debate among conservatives, which was dubbed Calendargate, with some believing it was too debasing and others defending the project.
In 2023, St. Clair went viral on social media by making a series of X posts on a flight from Phoenix to New York City in which she said the other passengers were primarily “migrants who crossed the border and are being shipped to New York.”
Following St. Clair’s latest announcement, an X post she made in November 2023 resurfaced on the social media platform.
In it St. Clair wrote: “Stopping birth control and Adderall was one of the best things I ever did for my mental health.” Musk then responded: “For sure.”
What People Are Saying
St. Clair’s statement on Friday read: “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.”
Responding to St. Clair’s X post, conservative commentator Candice Owens said: “Children should always be off limits. Journalists are parasites. Hard to imagine going through this with a young one.”
Jack Posobiec, editor of right-wing website Human Events, posted: “God bless you and your family, Ash.”
What’s Happens Next
Musk has been active on X since St. Clair’s announcement, posting about Vice President JD Vance‘s Munich speech, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s U.S. visit and his rocket launches among other subjects. However, he has yet to comment on reports he has a new baby.
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