Elon Musk’s custody battle with a Republican influencer intensified last night after text messages claimed to expose a ‘pregnancy plot’ against the billionaire.
Ashley St. Clair, 26, has been accused of plotting to ‘baby trap’ Musk, 53, with ‘rocket babies’ after she filed a petition demanding full custody of their son known only as R.S.C.
St. Clair stunned Washington last week when she revealed that she had secretly given birth to Musk’s 13th child five months ago.
A bitter custody dispute has now spilled into the public eye.
Last night, Musk amplified claims from internet personality Isabella Moody, who shared texts on X said to be between her and St. Clair from May 2023, in which she appears to discuss seducing the billionaire.
‘I wasn’t going to post these, but now that Ashley St. Clair has leaked her private signal messages with Elon Musk after lying and saying she “wanted privacy”, here’s more evidence Ashely [sic] planned to baby trap Elon,’ Moody wrote.
One purported text read: ‘Elon followed me. I need his rocket babies.’
Musk responded to the alleged revelation on his X platform, writing: ‘Woah!’
As part of exhibits in the New York court filing for the paternity petition, conservative commentator St. Clair shared a picture of Musk holding her son, born last September.
She announced the baby in a post on the evening of Valentine’s Day, saying: ‘Five months ago, I welcomed a new baby into the world. Elon Musk is the father.
She added: ‘I intend to allow our child to grow in a normal and safe environment. For that reason, I ask that the media honour our child’s privacy, and refrain from invasive reporting.’
Soon after the announcement, Musk penned a cryptic post to X in reply to a fan who said making ‘another baby’ was yet another of Musk’s ‘side quests’. He reacted with crying laughing emoji.
The richest man in the world, with a net worth of around £300 billion, Musk has now fathered 13 children with four women. A self-confessed ‘pronatalist’ – someone who advocates for a high birth rate – he has certainly practised what he preaches.
Last year the mogul forked out $35 million on a 14,400 sq ft compound in Austin, Texas where he hopes his ‘baby mamas’ will live harmoniously in adjoining houses, making it easier for him to see his children.
Musk’s 12 known children (the eldest died in infancy) are aged up to 20 years old and currently live all over the US. So just who are the kids whose father says he’s offered them all a trip to Mars, and who could one day inherit his fortune?
Nevada Alexander
Born: May 18, 2002
Mother: Justine Wilson
Born two years after Musk tied the knot with first wife, Canadian author Justine Wilson, Nevada Alexander died from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome at just ten weeks old.
Vivian Jenna & Griffin
Born: April 15, 2004
Mother: Justine Wilson
Justine, who says Musk told her ‘I am the alpha in this relationship’ at their wedding, suffered ‘a years-long inward spiral of depression and distraction’ after the death of Nevada Alexander. She started IVF just two months later and soon gave birth to twin boys Griffin and Xavier.
In June 2022, aged 18, Xavier came out as transgender and changed their name to Vivian Jenna Wilson – using her mother’s maiden name. Last July, Musk said Vivian had been ‘born gay and slightly autistic, two attributes that contribute to gender dysphoria’ and that his ‘son’ had been ‘killed by the woke mind virus’.
Vivian replied: ‘He doesn’t know what I was like as a child because he quite simply wasn’t there, and in the little time that he was, I was relentlessly harassed for my femininity and queerness.’
Vivian’s gender-swap now makes her twin, Griffin, Elon’s eldest son and heir.
The pair appear to share a good relationship. In May last year the billionaire posted on X that they had attended an event hosted by American Express in Miami.
Kai, Saxon & Damian
Born: January 2006
Mother: Justine Wilson
The Musk dynasty, was boosted by IVF triplets two years before their parents separated in 2008.
One of the best known pictures of the trio shows them with their father and elder brother Griffin at a private audience with Pope Francis in July 2022.
It was widely reported that, in 2014, Musk had pulled the children out of their private schools and enrolled them at Ad Astra, a school that he founded. Musk claimed in a 2010 article that he continues to pay ex-wife Wilson $20,000 a month in childcare payments as well as living expenses and a team of nannies.
X AE A-XII
Born: May 4, 2020
Mother: Grimes
Musk met the Canadian singer and record producer Grimes – real name Claire Boucher – online in 2018 and two years later she gave birth to a baby boy.
Grimes took to Instagram to clarify the name was pronounced: ‘just X, like the letter X, then A.I. Like how you said the letter A then I.’ Musk, however, later told Joe Rogan’s podcast that the ‘AE’ is in fact pronounced ‘ash’.
A-XII is understood as a reference to the CIA’s A-12 spy plane, which Musk previously described as ‘the coolest plane ever.’
The four-year-old stole the limelight two weeks ago when he went to a White House press conference with his father. Grimes, however, posted on her ex-husband’s social media platform: ‘He should not be in public like this.’
Strider & Azure
Born: November 2021
Mother: Shivon Zilis
Five months after twins Strider and Azure were born, it was revealed that Musk had fathered the children with Shivon Zilis, a senior executive at his AI company Neuralink.
The 39-year-old Yale graduate is understood to be the only mother of Musk’s children to move into the $35 million ‘family compound’.
After the birth, Musk brandished his pronatalist credentials on Twitter, posting: ‘Doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis. A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far.’
Exa Dark Sideræl
Born: December 2021
Mother: Grimes
Just weeks after the birth of Zilis’s twins, Grimes had her second child with Musk, this time via a surrogate.
The billionaire argued that the couple were ‘semi-separated’ at the time, which probably wasn’t what the singer wanted to hear shortly after taking receipt of her daughter, not least because she revealed of Musk: ‘I would probably refer to him as my boyfriend, but we’re very fluid.’
Exa is a computer term, Dark refers to the ‘mystery of our universe’ and Sideræl is from the Lord Of The Rings, beloved by Musk as a child.
Techno Mechanicus
Born: June 2022
Mother: Grimes
Musk and Grimes welcomed their third child in the summer of 2022, a boy named Techno Mechanicus, shorted to ‘Tau’.
Little is known about his early years, with Grimes taking to social media to reveal that her ‘priority is keeping my babies out of the public eye. Plz respect that at this time.’ Grimes and Musk split for good – following a series of reconciliations – in 2023.
In yet another twist, however, Grimes last week took to X in a since-deleted post to plea with Musk: ‘Plz respond about our child’s medical crisis… This requires immediate attention.’ It is unclear what had happened.
Baby No 12
Born: 2024
Mother: Shivon Zilis
Last summer, Musk confirmed he’d had a third child with Shivon Zilis.
Baby No 13 ‘R.S.C.’
Born: Late 2024
Mother: Ashley St Clair
On Valentine’s Day, American Right-wing influencer and children’s author Ashley St Clair made the bombshell allegation that Musk was the father to her five-month-old baby, known as R.S.C.
She also alleges the tech mogul insisted she kept the baby a secret and refused to allow his name on the birth certificate.