Elon Musk offered Ashley St. Clair $15M to keep quiet about baby: report
Elon Musk offered influencer Ashley St. Clair $15 million and monthly payments of $100,000 to keep their newborn child a secret, according to a new report.
Elon Musk offered influencer Ashley St. Clair $15 million and monthly payments of $100,000 to keep their newborn child a secret, according to a new report.
A DNA test confirmed the Tesla ownerâs âprobability of paternityâ is 99.9999% according to the Wall Street Journal. The report also reveals Muskâs son with St. Clair is named Romulus, but the tech giantâs last name is not on the birth certificate.
Musk hasnât directly commented on the reports about his newborn son, but he did however share a post on X expressing his displeasure for The Wall Street Journal writing, âTMZ >> WSJ.â
Musk allegedly told St. Clair that he is â#2 after Trump for assassinationâ in text messages seen by the outlet, noting this as the reason he found it too dangerous to make the baby news public. He added that âonly the paranoid survive.â
According to the report, St. Clair declined the $15 million package offer, saying that it would make her son feel âillegitimate.â The 26-year-old influencer also noted the agreement didnât provide the child with a trust fund in case Musk were to become ill or die.
St. Clair first announced in February on Muskâs social media platform, X, that sheâd welcomed a child fathered by the tech billionaire.
âFive months ago, I welcomed a new baby into the world. Elon Musk is the father,â she wrote. âI have not previously disclosed this to protect our childâs 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.â
After the announcement, Musk rescinded his original $15 million offer to St. Clair, and dropped the $100,000 monthly payments to $40,000 and then later to $20,000, per the Wall Street Journal.
Musk admitted to making payments to St. Clair, but questioned whether the child was actually his.
âI donât know if the child is mine or not, but am not against finding out,â he wrote via X. âNo court order is needed. Despite not knowing for sure, I have given Ashley $2.5M and am sending her $500k/year.â
In February, the SpaceX CEO was confronted with another baby announcement when technology executive Shivon Zilis shared that sheâd given birth to her fourth child with Musk, bringing his total offspring to 14.