Elon Musk ‘offered woman $15m to have his baby and keep it secret'

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16-04-2025

A woman who alleged Elon Musk fathered her baby said he offered her $15 million to keep the birth a secret.
Ashley St Clair, 26, claimed the tech billionaire offered her the fee along with a $100,000 monthly stipend until the child reaches the age of 21 as part of a deal to muzzle her, according to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
Mr Musk is thought to have at least 14 children with four women including the pop musician Grimes and Shivon Zilis, a Canadian executive at Neuralink, his neurotechnology firm.
Jared Birchall, Mr Musk's right-hand man, told Ms St Clair that the deal was similar to what Mr Musk had agreed with the other mothers of his children, the report claims.
The Tesla boss is said to have demanded she deliver the baby via caesarean section, believing the procedure allows for the child to develop a larger brain, and not to circumcise the baby if it was male.
Ms St Clair, a conservative influencer, did follow through with his request to keep his name from the birth certificate, according to the newspaper.
Mr Birchall is said to have demanded that the new mother sign an agreement keeping Mr Musk's paternity a secret in exchange for $15 million and $100,000 a month.
The deal reportedly prevented her from saying anything negative about the billionaire, while Mr Musk was free to say what he wanted about her.
According to the WSJ, in a December call with Ms St Clair, Mr Birchall said the non-disclosure agreements were necessary because: 'We have been through way too many issues where, to not sign some agreement associated with handing over $15 million is absolutely insane and irresponsible, and because we have dealt with some very unstable, mentally unstable, people that all of a sudden misremember things.'
When she met Mr Musk, she was working for the conservative satirical website The Babylon Bee, a Christian, Right-wing version of The Onion.
A regular guest on conservative news outlets, she has warned about declining birth rates in developed countries, a concern shared by many Republicans.
Since the birth, she has filed a lawsuit claiming that Mr Musk is the father of her five-month-old son.
Ms St Clair says there is no doubt about the paternity of the baby. In her lawsuit, she insisted that she 'did not have sexual intercourse with any other male during the time the child was conceived'.
A paternity test has since found the 'probability of paternity' was 99.9999 per cent, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Ironically, the WSJ reports Ms St Clair is credited with making the infamous Dark Maga gothic styled hat which Mr Musk has gone on to wear in the Oval Office.
In other plans reported by the WSJ, Mr Musk is said to have tried to convince Ms St Clair to move to an Austin 'compound', where he hoped to house the rest of his 'kid legion'.
The Doge chief addressed the baby rumours last month, writing on X: 'I don't know if the child is mine or not, but am not against finding out. No court order is needed.'
Mr Musk's ever-growing brood of children has expanded once again after he confirmed the arrival of a new son named Seldon Lycurgus in March.
The baby is believed to be his 14th child and the fourth he has had with Shivon Zilis, a Canadian executive at Neuralink, his neurotechnology firm.
Elsewhere, the outlet reported that Mr Musk asked a woman he knew through X if she wanted to have a baby with him, and when she declined, the revenue she generated from the social media platform plummeted.
Mr Musk is said to have taken an interest in cryptocurrency influencer Tiffany Fong, when she began writing on X about the downfall of Sam Bankman-Fried, who was found guilty of fraud and money laundering.
Mr Musk began liking and replying to her posts and this engagement boosted her following, allowing her to begin making money as part of X's revenue sharing programme for creators.
During the height of her time on the platform, Ms Fong claims to have earned $21,000 on the platform in a two-week period in November.
Soon after following her, Mr Musk sent her a direct message asking if she was interested in having his child despite never meeting in person, according to the Wall Street Journal which reported that Ms Fong did not move forward with the proposal.
Mr Musk allegedly discovered that Ms Fong had told others about his offer and subsequently unfollowed her, at which point her earnings nosedived.
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