MAGA influencer Ashley St. Clair has accused Elon Musk of being an absent father who “can’t be counted on” after she revealed last week that she shares a 5-month-old son with the tech billionaire.
St. Clair, 26, has sued Musk, 53, for sole custody of the baby boy, claiming he was not present at the baby’s birth in September 2024 and has only met him three times—for a total of three and a half hours.
“This has never been about money for Ashley,” a spokesperson for the author told People. “This is about protecting the best interests of Ashley and Elon’s child from a man who can’t be counted on to even communicate, much less act consistently in the role of a father.”
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The statement appeared to push back against the the DOGE director’s recent defense of his parenting, which came in response to an X post by Youtuber Zach Nelson, known as Jerry Rig Everything.
“Abandons a 5 month old. Won’t pay child support for another 3. And leaves the shield behind at a major event... yikes,” Nelson wrote, referring to footage of Musk hurrying off stage at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) as his 4-year-old son struggles to keep up.
Musk, who will have fathered 13 children with four women if St. Clair’s claims are true, fired back, calling Nelson an “utter liar” and insisting that he has “always paid extremely generous child support and without any coercion to do so.” He claimed that some mothers had sought “vastly in excess of what the children could possibly need,” requiring legal intervention.
St. Clair’s camp, however, blasted his co-parenting skills.
“Mr. Musk spends more time on his own social media platform talking about his children’s mothers than talking to them,” the representative said in the statement.
Court documents note that St. Clair is seeking a temporary order of support for the child, rather than child support from Musk.
St. Clair claims that she and the billionaire began a “romantic relationship” around May 2023 and conceived the boy, identified as R.S.C., in January 2024.
In the court filing, St. Clair included alleged text messages in which Musk appears to acknowledge that he was the baby’s father. In November 2024, he allegedly wrote, “I want to knock you up again,” followed by a message in early February stating, “Well, we do have a legion of kids to make.”
After the text messages were revealed, Vivian Wilson, Elon Musk’s estranged daughter seemingly reacted to the X-rated messages on Threads, writing: “Today I have read things I can’t unread. I envy who I was an hour ago.”
