In an exclusive sit-down from her glitzy Manhattan pad Saturday, Ashley St. Clair, 26, described the 53-year-old Tesla and SpaceX mogul as “funny” and “down to Earth” — but claimed that he wanted to keep their baby a secret for everyone’s safety.
St. Clair asked to keep her son’s name a secret, but revealed he is happy and healthy.
Ashley St. Clair is alleging that Elon Musk is the father of her 5-month-old baby.Michael Nagle for NY Post
“My child is the most perfect thing that happened to me. I wouldn’t change anything,” gushed St. Clair.
St. Clair broke the internet on Friday when she posted on X that she gave birth to Musk’s baby five months ago, a revelation she said she was forced to make due to prying tabloid reporters.
Sr. Clair told The Post the pair met in May 2023.Michael Nagle for NY Post
Musk has not yet acknowledged the allegations — and his reps did not respond to multiple requests for comment by The Post. He has made numerous, unrelated posts on X since his alleged lover made the announcement.
“Ashley & Elon have been privately working towards the creation of an agreement about raising their child for some time. It is disappointing that a tabloid reporter, who repeatedly ambushed Ashley and her family, made it impossible to complete that process confidentially,” her representative Brian Glicklich said in a statement on X Saturday.
“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.”
The platform, which Musk bought for $44 billion in 2022, is where the two first crossed paths in May 2023, according to St. Clair.
Musk allegedly wanted to keep the birth a secret — and declined to put his name on the birth certificate.Michael Nagle for NY Post
“Musk was very funny. He was smart. He was very down to earth. It started with X interactions and he slid into my DM’s. I think it was a meme,” she recalled.
At the time, she “didn’t particularly have much interest in Elon” other than his acquisition of Twitter. She first became aware of the billionaire thanks to her “gay best friend” who frequently asked her to watch videos of Musk’s SpaceX rocket launches.
“And at one point he said, ‘Are you ever in San Francisco or Austin?’ And I said, ‘I am in Austin and Texas a good amount for work.’” St. Clair continued, adding that she worked for the Babylon Bee, a conservative satirical website, at the time.
After Musk restored the Babylon Bee to Twitter from an eight-month suspension for a joke about a transgender Biden administration official, Bee CEO Seth Dillon asked St. Clair to fly to San Francisco to interview the billionaire at his new company’s headquarters.
St. Clair, in a photo from 2021, claims she was forced into “isolation” during her pregnancy.Helayne Seidman
“After the interview, I got a text from him saying, ‘Feel like going to Providence [Rhode Island] tonight?’” St. Clair continued.
The alleged romance blossomed from there, she claimed, until she became pregnant.
She claimed she was restricted from telling more than a close-knit circle of people that she was even carrying a child.
“I was told to keep it secret. I was being asked to keep it a secret forever,” claimed St. Clair, declining to provide a reason for the confidentiality or any material proof that Musk is the biological father.
Musk allegedly provided her with a lavish apartment in the Financial District — where rent for a two-bedroom can soar to nearly $40,000, according to StreetEasy — and a hefty security detail, but no romance, St. Clair claimed.
The young mother was allegedly forced to spend her pregnancy alone.
“I was completely isolated during my pregnancy. Every part of my career and everything I used to do I couldn’t do anymore. I was told not to tell anybody,” she claimed.
Around the same time as her pregnancy, the influencer and author’s Instagram went dark for months, until she posted a photo from President Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20.
Elon Musk has not acknowledged claims he fathered a child with St. Clair.Bonnie Cash/UPI/Shutterstock
Texts viewed by The Post between St. Clair and Jared Birchall, Musk’s money manager, appear to show that she complied with the billionaire’s wish to be left off the birth certificate to preserve privacy, security and confidentiality.
Birchall, the CEO of Neuralink, which Musk co-founded, did not respond to a request for comment.
Some Musk-obsessed fans apparently began speculating that she had given birth to the Tesla CEO’s baby and began harassing her, both online and on the street, she said.
Musk has been known to make very public appearances with his other kids.Aaron Schwartz/UPI/Shutterstock
St. Clair emphasized she was willing to stay silent because it would also protect her newborn’s privacy –until a tabloid, which she declined to name, started snooping around.
That’s what led her to unleash the shocking X announcement on Friday, accusing the media of trying to do her and her baby harm.
“It is very hard to understate how much I am processing right now. I am sad that my hand was forced by the media to do this now. But there is also a sense of relief because I have been forced to live in secrecy for almost a year of my life,” she wrote.
“I cannot explain the kind of primary pain you feel as a mother and you’re talking to people and they ask you about the one kid, and you have to lie and carry this burden and secret. You have to lie to people you love.”
St. Clair said she was pushed to reveal her newborn’s paternity by tabloid threats.Michael Nagle for NY Post
St. Clair said she has not communicated with Musk since posting the statement, which was not flagged with a community note to warn viewers of misinformation. St. Clair said she notified his team that she would be writing about her claims on X on Friday before she hit Send.
“He ignored it,” she claimed.
Despite the drama, St. Clair is at peace with her decision to go public — but hopes the revelation will allow her to give her baby a normal life.
The mother-child duo have met some of Musk’s other 12 children but not their mothers.
They have spent time with Musk’s mother, Maye Musk — though she didn’t know about the pregnancy.
St. Clair asked to keep the baby’s name a secret, but revealed they are happy and healthy.
“I am a good mom. And that’s what drives most of my decisions and my kids are my whole world,” she said.
The mother of two authored the 2021 children’s book “Elephants Are Not Bird,” the story of an elephant named Kevin who likes to sing, and then is convinced by a vulture — named Culture — that he warbles so well, he must actually be a bird.
The book was the first published under conservative publishing house Brave Books, with St. Clair describing the story as an unapologetic rebuke of transgender acceptance.
She was later tapped by self-described woke-free beer company Conservative Dad’s Ultra Right to appear in the company’s “Real Women of America 2024 Calendar,” which was released in December 2023.
The calendar featured several well-known conservative women, with St. Clair pictured in a bubble bath sporting a black bra and pearl necklace, Newsweek reported.
That same year, a series of tweets went viral after she accused Delta Air Lines of flying migrants, who she claimed were let out of a nearby immigration detention center, on her domestic flight from Arizona to New York.
St. Clair, who was reportedly born in Florida, has made multiple appearances on Fox News, conservative podcasts and other web shows, often speaking about the declining birth rate in America.
