{"id":69723,"date":"2025-04-16T13:24:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T17:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=69723"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:27:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:27:03","slug":"did-elon-musk-want-to-silence-baby-mom-ashley-st-clair-with-15-million-usd-buyout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/did-elon-musk-want-to-silence-baby-mom-ashley-st-clair-with-15-million-usd-buyout\/69723\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Elon Musk Want to Silence Baby Mom Ashley St Clair With 15 Million USD Buyout?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative commentator <strong>Ashley St. Clair<\/strong> has reportedly claimed that she had a child with <strong>Elon Musk<\/strong>, according to a detailed report by <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> published on April 15. The child, a boy named <strong>Romulus<\/strong>, was born around five months before St. Clair publicly acknowledged his birth in a post on <strong>X<\/strong> (formerly Twitter) this past February.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a simplified breakdown of the situation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Paternity and Secrecy Deal<\/strong>: The WSJ report alleges that Musk\u2019s team offered St. Clair a <strong>$15 million lump sum<\/strong> and <strong>$100,000 monthly<\/strong> until Romulus turned 21\u2014<strong>in exchange for keeping Musk\u2019s paternity secret<\/strong>. Musk\u2019s name was left off the child\u2019s birth certificate. However, a recent <strong>paternity test<\/strong> reportedly confirmed with <strong>99.9999% accuracy<\/strong> that Musk is the biological father.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Why She Turned It Down<\/strong>: St. Clair allegedly declined the offer, saying she didn\u2019t want her son to feel like a \u201csecret\u201d and felt the deal lacked guarantees for the child\u2019s long-term needs\u2014like health coverage or a trust fund in case something happened to Musk.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Musk\u2019s Messages and Comments<\/strong>: The report includes texts where Musk expressed concern over his own safety, reportedly saying he\u2019s \u201c#2 after Trump for assassination\u201d and that \u201conly the paranoid survive,\u201d implying secrecy was for protection. In March, Musk tweeted ambiguously: <em>\u201cI don\u2019t know if the child is mine or not\u2026 but am not against finding out.\u201d<\/em> He added that he had already given St. Clair <strong>$2.5 million<\/strong> and was paying her <strong>$500,000 annually<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Financial Offer Changes<\/strong>: After St. Clair publicly acknowledged Musk\u2019s paternity in February, Musk\u2019s team reportedly <strong>reduced<\/strong> the financial offer\u2014first from $100,000\/month to $40,000, and later down to <strong>$20,000\/month<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Public Statement by St. Clair<\/strong>: In her February 14 post, St. Clair wrote that she kept quiet for her son\u2019s safety and requested privacy. She didn\u2019t name Musk at the time but later clarified he is the father.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Elon Musk\u2019s Known Children<\/strong>: This brings the number of Musk\u2019s known children to <strong>at least 14<\/strong>, with mothers including <strong>Justine Musk (his ex-wife)<\/strong>, <strong>musician Grimes<\/strong>, and <strong>Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The story highlights an ongoing pattern in Musk\u2019s personal life: increasing numbers of children with multiple partners, often wrapped in controversy, secrecy, and legal complexity.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative commentator Ashley St. Clair has reportedly claimed that she had a child with Elon Musk, according to a detailed\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":69724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[157,22716],"class_list":["post-69723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","tag-elon-musk","tag-elon-musk-support"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}