Ashley St. Clair, a right-wing influencer, Babylon Bee contributor and semi-regular guest on Fox News, took to X late Friday night to reveal that five months ago, she had a child with Elon Musk.
She wrote, “Five months ago, I welcomed a new baby into the world. Elon Musk is the father. I have not previously disclosed this to protect our child’s 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.”
St. Clair ended her statement with a request for the media to honor their child’s privacy and refrain from invasive reporting. The statement was accompanied by a Latin phrase, “Alea iacta est,” which means “The die is cast.”
Conservative figures like Jack Posobiec, his wife Tanya Tay, Mike Cernovich and Candace Owens all sent St. Clair their support via X, with Owens writing, “Children should always be off limits. Journalists are parasites. Hard to imagine going through this with a young one. Better to come out with this on your own terms.”
Musk, who has yet to confirm St. Clair’s news, is already a father of 12 children with three women. The DOGE director has six children with his first wife, Justine; three with musician Grimes; and three with former Neuralink director of operations Shivon Zilis—the youngest of whom was born in June 2024.
Grimes—the mother of X Æ A-12, who has recently been photographed visiting the Oval Office with Musk—has recently been using X (the social media platform) to express her discomfort with Musk using their son as a prop, writing, “He should not be in public like this,” in response to his latest appearance at the White House.
A report by Bloomberg, published in June 2024, outlined the myriad ways Musk has been attempting to launder fringe theories about an impending population collapse in the mainstream. In 2021, his $10 million donation to the University of Texas at Austin funded the establishment of the Population Wellbeing Initiative, which publicly describes its mission as “quantitative social science research” but privately describes its goal as hoping to legitimize the idea that “low fertility is a key threat to long-run flourishing.”
The Great Replacement Theory—the idea that certain government policies are designed to change the racial mix of the United States, causing white Americans to become a minority—has gained mainstream attention in recent years with figures like Tucker Carlson and Musk himself. In a series of posts made to X last year, Musk voiced concerns about migration from the southern border overtaking American birth rates.
The Daily Beast has reached out to Musk, via his lawyer, for comment.
