Ashley St. Clair, a conservative influencer and author, says she welcomed a baby with Elon Musk in 2024.
Talk about a Valentine’s Day surprise that’s out of this world.
Conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair says she had a baby with Elon Musk last year. E! News has reached out to a rep for the SpaceX CEO—also an adviser to President Donald Trump— for comment and has not heard back.
“Five months ago, I welcomed a new baby into the world. Elon Musk is the father,” St. Clair wrote on X—formerly Twitter, which Musk had bought in 2022—Feb. 14. “I have not previously disclosed this to protect our child’s privacy and safety, but in recent days it has become clear that the tabloid media intends to do so, regardless of the harm it will cause.”
The author of the 2021 children’s book Elephants Are Not Birds continued, “I intend to allow our child to grow in a normal and safe environment. For that reason, I ask that the media honor our child’s privacy, and refrain from invasive reporting.”
St. Clair also wrote in her X post, “Alea Iacta Est,” which is Latin for “The die is cast.”
St. Clair shared her post several months after she sparked pregnancy rumors on Reddit. After her announcement, CBS News’ senior White House reporter Jennifer Jacobs wrote on X, “Some Trump aides knew last year that Elon Musk was having a baby with a conservative influencer. The tip-off was when a pregnant Ashley St. Clair started showing up at Mar-a-Lago with guards, specifically members of Musk’s security team, sources told me.”
St. Clair also made her comments one day after Musk brought his and ex Grimes‘ son X Æ A-Xii, 4, and his twins Azure and Strider, 2, and their mother Shivon Zilis to the White House, where they accompanied the tech billionaire during a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
X / Ashley St. Clair / Kevin Lamarque – Pool / Getty Images
Neither St. Clair nor Musk—who also shares son Techno Mechanicus, 20 months, with Grimes, a baby born in 2024 with Zilis and kids Vivian and Griffin, 21, Kai, Saxon and Damian, 19, and late son Nevada, who died at age 10 weeks from SIDS in 2002, with ex-wife Justine Wilson Musk—had never announced or confirmed a pregnancy over the past few months, or spoken about a relationship.
In September 2023, the two interacted on X and visited a Texas border crossing separately around the same time, with her saying on the Liberty Lockdown podcast that the Tesla CEO’s timing was a “total coincidence” and that the two didn’t speak in person.
The following November, St. Clair wrote on X, “Stopping birth control and Adderall was one of the best things I ever did for my mental health So many Americans on pharmaceutical cocktails and then wondering why they feel out of their minds.”
Musk responded, “For sure.”
Read on to find out more about Musk’s family tree…
After Elon moved to Canada at age 17, Maye obtained Canadian citizenship by birthright and moved there too. There, she established a dietician practice and became President of the Consulting Dieticians of Canada. She also worked as a model.
In 2019, after Elon sold his company Zip2 for more than $300 million, he bought his mom an apartment in New York City, where she lived for 13 years and continued her modeling career after being signed to the IMG Models agency.
“I brought my children up like my parents brought us up when we were young: to be independent, kind, honest, considerate and polite,” Maye wrote in an essay for CNBC. “I taught them the importance of working hard and doing good things.”
Though Errol said in a 2015 Forbes interview that he used to often take his kids on trips overseas—”Their mother and I split up when they were quite young and the kids stayed with me. I took them all over the world.”—his relationship with Elon isn’t picture perfect.
In an emotional 2017 Rolling Stone interview, Elon criticized his father and talked about his upbringing, saying that after his parents split, he moved in with his dad, which, he said, “was not a good idea.”
However, Errol told Rolling Stone, “I love my children and would readily do whatever for them.”
Following his divorce from Maye, Errol married Heide, whose daughter Jana Bezuidenhout was 4 years old at the time. Errol and Heide went on to have two daughters together before they, too, broke up.
Years later, Jana reached out to Errol following a breakup of her own. “We were lonely, lost people,” Errol explained in a 2018 interview with The Sunday Times. “One thing led to another—you can call it God’s plan or nature’s plan.”
Either way, the duo became romantic and welcomed son Elliott in 2017 and then a baby girl in 2019. As Errol put it to The Sun, “The only thing we are on Earth for is to reproduce. If I could have another child I would. I can’t see any reason not to.”
Kimbal Musk & Tosca Musk (Siblings)
Kimbal, born in 1972, is a restauranteur and the founder of The Kitchen, a collective of five restaurants that source directly from local farmers. He also runs a non-profit, Big-Green, that has built 200 learning gardens in schools across the U.S., the outlet said.
Tosca, born in 1974, is a filmmaker. In 2017, she founded Passionflix, a female-focused streaming service that targets the billion-dollar romance novel industry.
“I shrugged it off,” Wilson wrote, “just as I would later shrug off signing the postnuptial agreement, but as time went on, I learned that he was serious.”
The two faced an unthinkable tragedy when their baby boy Nevada Alexander died at 10 weeks from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). “Nevada went down for a nap, placed on his back as always, and stopped breathing,” Justine wrote in her article.
The couple pursued IVF to conceive again and went on to welcome five more kids: Twins Vivian and Griffin and triplets Kai, Saxon and Damian.
In 2008, Elon filed for divorce.
The two divorced in 2012, then remarried a year later before divorcing again in 2016. In June 2024, she wed Love Actually alum Thomas Brodie-Sangster.
“I just broke up with my girlfriend,” Elon told Rolling Stone at the time. “I was really in love, and it hurt bad…Well, she broke up with me more than I broke up with her, I think.”
However, in March 2022, she told Vanity Fair that they “live in separate houses” and are “best friends.”
She later tweeted, “Me and E have broken up *again* since the writing of this article haha, but he’s my best friend and the love of my life, and my life and art are forever dedicated to The Mission now.”
When news broke in September 2023 that the couple had three children together, the “Crystal Ball” singer confirmed that, yes, their most recent addition Techno Mechanicus had joined son X Æ A-12 and daughter Exa Dark Sideræl.
In November 2024, Grimes revealed that she had “spent a year locked in battle in a state with terrible mothers rights having my instagram posts and modeling used as reasons I shouldn’t have my kids,” all the while, “fighting and detaching from the love of my life as he becomes unrecognizable to me.”
Fighting with just a “fraction” of his resources, she was kept from one of her kids for five months, she continued, adding, “This is only what can be said publicly, since most of my experience these last years should remain behind closed doors.”
“X, the unknown variable,” Grimes explained on Twitter. “Æ, my elven spelling of Ai (love &/or Artificial intelligence) A-12 = precursor to SR-17 (our favorite aircraft). No weapons, no defenses, just speed. Great in battle, but non-violent.”
Grimes continued, “A=Archangel, my favorite song” adding a rat and sword emoji. “Metal rat.”
“Exa is a reference to the supercomputing term exaFLOPS (the ability to perform 1 quintillion floating-point operations per second),” she said. “Dark, meanwhile, is the unknown. People fear it but truly it’s the absence of photons. Dark matter is the beautiful mystery of our universe.'”
Sideræl—pronounced “sigh-deer-ee-el”—is, according to mom, “the true time of the universe, star time, deep space time, not our relative earth time,” and a nod to her favorite Lord of the Rings character, Galadriel, who “chooses to abdicate the ring.”Walter Isaacson revealed in his biography Elon Musk that Exa was born in December 2021 via surrogate.The book also stated that around Father’s Day 2022, the on-again, off-again couple welcomed a child named Techno Mechanicus, nicknamed Tau, also via surrogate. The biography includes a photo, dated June 2022, of Elon feeding the baby boy.
“Five months ago, I welcomed a new baby into the world. Elon Musk is the father,” the Elephants Are Not Birds author wrote on X Feb. 14. “I have not previously disclosed this to protect our child’s privacy and safety, but in recent days it has become clear that the tabloid media intends to do so, regardless of the harm it will cause.”
“I intend to allow our child to grow in a normal and safe environment,” she continued. “For that reason, I ask that the media honor our child’s privacy, and refrain from invasive reporting.”
A day later, her rep gave a brief update. “Ashley & Elon have been privately working towards the creation of an agreement about raising their child for some time,” spokesperson Brian Glicklich wrote on X. “We are waiting for Elon to publicly acknowledge his parental role with Ashley, to end unwarranted speculation, and Ashley trusts that Elon intends to finish their agreement quickly, in the best interests of the wellbeing and security of the child they share.”
