Elon Musk’s ‘baby mama’ Ashley St. Clair sues him for custody of son and demands he take paternity test

Elon Musk is being sued by MAGA influencer and alleged baby mama Ashley St. Clair for sole custody of her newborn child, whom she claims he fathered. 

In a petition filed with the New York Supreme Court on Friday, St. Clair, 26, says the Tesla CEO and DOGE Chief has had no involvement in the upbringing of her son. 

The influencer also filed a second lawsuit to obtain a paternity test from Musk, since ‘the father of the subject child has not been legally established,’ she wrote in her first filing. 

The child, who goes by R.S.C. in the court docs, was born in September 2024, and St. Clair says in her filing for the paternity test that she and Musk started a ‘romantic relationship in or about May 2023’. 

St. Clair says that Musk, 53, has only met the boy three times and that she is the only parent to make decisions on the child’s behalf. 

She claims that Musk was not present for the birth of their child and hasn’t expressed any interest in having custody. 

According to the court documents, St Clair says she believes child was conceived on the island of St. Barths. 

Requesting an order for genetic testing, she adds: ‘I am not currently married to Respondent or any other person. 

Pictured: Musk holding the baby he allegedly shares with St. Clair, as seen in an exhibit of her paternity lawsuit

Elon Musk pictured in the Oval office on February 11 with his four-year-old son X Æ A-12, known as X

‘I did not have sexual intercourse with any other male during the time the child was conceived. 

‘I am requesting an order for genetic testing to determine the paternity of the child.’ 

In her custody suit, St. Clair writes that it is in the best interests of the child that she have sole legal and physical custody. 

She claims that the Musk first met the boy on September 21, 2024, in New York City, where she resides, for two hours. 

The three are then said to have spent one hour together the following day, followed by a trip to Austin, Texas, in which he met the boy for 30 minutes. 

Alongside the paternity suit, she also shared images of Musk with the child as part of the exhibits. 

In her custody suit, St. Clair writes that it is in the best interests of the child that she have sole legal and physical custody 

The new child with conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair would extend Musk’s brood to 13

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.

‘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.

‘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.’

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’. Musk reacted with crying laughing emoji. 

DailyMail.com revealed that St. Clair moved about a year ago into a swanky Manhattan apartment near City Hall, costing around $12,000 to $15,000 per month. 

St. Clair is a conservative firebrand who has previously courted controversy by fraternizing with the far right 

St. Clair says Musk first ‘slid into my DMs’ in May 2023, and that she met him at an interview he did that month with her then-boss Seth Dillon, CEO of right-leaning satirical news site Babylon Bee in San Francisco. 

Her and the billionaire had already set tongues wagging over her public flirtation with the world’s richest man, 53, on his social media site, X.

They had been messaging each other in public since May 2023 with risqué jokes about ‘dick pics’, innuendo-laden references to ‘pulling out’, ‘how babies are made’ and ‘horny jail’.

He wished her happy birthday last July, she sent him heart emojis, he sent her a lengthy list of book suggestions and told her ‘this is the absolute *best* time in history to have kids!’

Florida born, Colorado-raised St Clair has built up a million followers on X with a conservative firebrand persona, has authored an anti-woke children’s book about identity, and has faced criticism for hanging out with alleged white supremacists.

In an interview with the New York Post the day after she went public about her baby, St. Clair said Musk followed up his meeting with her in San Francisco with an invite to join him on an impromptu trip to Providence, Rhode Island.

‘After the interview, I got a text from him saying, ‘Feel like going to Providence [Rhode Island] tonight?’ she told the Post.

DailyMail.com had been investigating claims that the two were in a romantic relationship, weeks before St. Clair publicly claimed she had Musk’s baby.

Musk has always wanted to have a large family and he once claimed that ‘ civilization is going to crumble’ if people don’t have more children.

Musk pictured with his ex Grimes, whom he has three young children with including son X

Musk and Shivon Zilis pictured with their twins Strider and Azure who were born in June 2021

So far, the 53-year-old billionaire has fathered 12 kids with three different women. His latest with St. Clair would be his 13th.

Speaking at a Wall Street Journal event back in 2021, Musk said low and rapidly declining birth rates were ‘one of the biggest risks to civilization,’ and claimed that ‘there are not enough people’ in the world.

When asked if that was why he had so many children, the businessman said he was trying to set a good example, and said that he has to practice what he preached.

At that point he was already a father to 11 kids, but sadly his first child Nevada – whom he had with his first wife Justine Wilson – died of sudden infant death syndrome in 2002 at the age of 10 weeks. 

Following the tragic death of his son Nevada, Musk went on to have five more children with Canadian author Wilson, 52.

Musk and Wilson had married in January 2000 and decided to use IVF to continue their family.

In 2004, they welcomed twins Griffin and Vivian, who is transgender.

Musk exits a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Modi in Blair House, with his three children with three of his children – Strider, X and Azure

Musk also shares triplets named Kai, Saxon and Damian with Wilson, who were born in 2006.

The couple divorced two years later in 2008, and in a 2010 essay she wrote for Marie Clare, Wilson said she felt more like an ’employee’ to Musk than a partner. 

In 2018, it was revealed that Musk was dating Canadian singer/songwriter Grimes – whose real name is Claire Elise Boucher.

The couple welcomed their first child, X, in May 2020 and originally gave their son the name X Æ A-12, which would have violated California regulations as it contained characters that are not in the modern English alphabet.

They then changed the child’s name to X Æ A-Xii. and received plenty of criticism for choosing a name perceived to be impractical and difficult to pronounce.

The following year they welcomed their daughter Exa Dark Sideræl via surrogacy. 

In between then and welcoming their son Tao in 2023, the couple ‘semi-separated’ and in January 2022, Grimes said of Musk: ‘I would probably refer to him as my boyfriend, but we’re very fluid.’

Musk has a further three children with one of his Neuralink employees Shivon Zilis.

Shortly before Grimes welcomed their daughter Exa, Zilis, 39, gave birth to a set of twins named Strider and Azure in June 2021. 

Zilis, who was born in Ontario, Canada, met Musk through OpenAI, the artificial-intelligence research-and-deployment nonprofit Musk cofounded in 2015, Insider reported.