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Elon Musk Claims Ashley St. Clair Has Been Paid $2.5M In Child Support
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- Elon Musk said he gave Ashley St. Clair $2.5 million and is sending her $500,000 per year, even though he has not confirmed if her son is biologically his.
- The conservative influencer accused Musk of cutting the original support payments for their son by 60 percent after she filed for sole legal custody and went public with the paternity claim.
- Musk allegedly ignored repeated paternity test requests before the child was born, and St. Clair sold her $100,000 Tesla to offset the cut in support.
Elon Musk claimed he paid Ashley St. Clair $2.5 million and committed to annual payments of $500,000 after she accused him of lowering child support for a child she alleges he fathered. Just weeks after St. Clair announced the birth of Musk’s 13th child, the political commentator accused the billionaire of drastically reducing the payments he initially offered for their son.
The situation spiraled into public view after Musk replied to a video on X, where St. Clair appeared to be handing off her Tesla Model S to a car sales agent. In the clip, she stated the sale was to offset a 60 percent cut Musk allegedly made to child support.
Musk responded online with, “I don’t know if the child is mine or not, but I am not against finding out. No court order is needed,” before continuing, “Despite not knowing for sure, I have given Ashley $2.5 million, and I am sending her $500k/year.”
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The public feud reignited on social media, where St. Clair replied that Musk had refused to take a paternity test even before their son was born, a test she said she requested multiple times. According to her, Musk named the child himself, then sent payments only when it suited him. “You weren’t sending me money,” she wrote on X, “you were sending support for your child that you thought was necessary… until you withdrew most of it to maintain control and punish me for ‘disobedience.’ But you’re really only punishing your son.” The conservative influencer asserts that her dispute with Musk originates from what she perceives as his need for power. “It’s ironic that your last effort in court was to try to gag me while you use a social media channel you literally own to distribute derogatory messages about me and our child to the entire world. It’s all about control with you, and everyone can see it.”
She closed her statement with a pointed jab: “America needs you to grow up, you petulant man-child.” The timeline of communication between the two paints a fractured picture. St. Clair stated that Musk cut off all contact after February 13, the day before she posted publicly identifying him as the father of her now six-month-old son. Asked how Musk has handled the paternity dispute and child support tensions, she smiled and said, “You can check the stocks; I am not the only one who is cleaning up after his messes.” St. Clair’s attorneys told People Magazine that Musk retaliated by slashing her child support after she filed for sole legal custody. “Elon Musk has financially retaliated against his child and reduced his financial support substantially and unilaterally,” her team stated.
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They added that St. Clair had made multiple attempts to resolve the issue in private before pursuing court involvement. “He did this after Ashley was forced to bring this matter to court when he refused to respond to her many private attempts to resolve this matter without publicity.” Her attorneys also confirmed that Musk had filed an emergency application in court to stop her from speaking publicly about the situation. The judge declined to grant the gag order, though the case is still pending. The court documents submitted by St. Clair outlined her certainty regarding the child’s paternity.
She stated that no other man could have fathered the child and provided a screenshot of her texts with Musk, showing her holding the newborn in a hospital bed. Elon Musk allegedly responded, “I look forward to seeing you and him this weekend.” Further messages between the two suggest a much deeper personal relationship than either party has publicly admitted. According to the filings, Musk sent her a message in November 2024 that read, “I want to knock you up again.” That sentiment resurfaced as recently as February 2, when Musk reportedly wrote, “Well, we do have a legion of kids to make.”