Ashley St. Clair’s Daring Stand – The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator

Ashley St. Clair, who had long been director of operations at the conservative satire site the Babylon Bee, and who gave birth to Elon Musk’s baby last year, was offered a deal by Musk: Take $15 million and shut up.

That’s according to an interview St. Clair did with the Wall Street Journal, which went to press this week. But St. Clair refused.

Getting the $15 million required adherence to a nondisclosure agreement that forbid her from revealing her son’s parentage. If she revealed Musk was the father, she would be forced to pay all the money back.

Making Musk’s dealings with St. Clair all the more unfair was that he offered her just $100,000 a month in child support. That may sound generous, but the problem is that security for the child of the world’s richest man does not come cheap. St. Clair found that the cost of security came out to over $100,000 a month, meaning that having Musk’s child was putting her in the red. And for Musk, paying her child support was costing him just 0.0000303 percent of his $330 billion net worth a month.

Because of the (situationally) small child support payments, the $15 million would have been a powerful cudgel against St. Clair had she taken it. It would have put her in the position of being financially ruined if she violated the NDA. And that was the point.

The unfairness of the deal Musk offered St. Clair was compounded by the fact that it provided no trust fund or life insurance if Musk died before their child turned 21. If Musk died before his 74th birthday, the child would essentially be left with nothing for college or security.

But here’s where it gets really unfair. When St. Clair spoke out about her child’s parentage and criticized Musk, he has responded by dramatically decreasing his child support payments. Four days after St. Clair revealed her son’s father is Musk, the support payment decreased to $40,000. Then, after the Wall Street Journal reached out to Musk for comment, he decreased the child support payment to $20,000 a month. St. Clair had been warned by Musk’s fixer, Jared Birchall, not to speak out or get a lawyer because it would leave her worse off monetarily.

St. Clair could have taken the $15 million and remained quiet. Yet she chose to speak out and reveal all of the repulsive ways Musk has treated her.

What she has to say reveals a pattern of creepy behavior and financial control exerted over a number of women. The Wall Street Journal revealed that St. Clair’s $15 million NDA offer was similar to other deals women who share children with Musk had been given. It also reported, on the basis of anonymous sources “close” to Musk, that the number of Musk’s children is “much higher” than the 14 who are publicly known. For instance, St. Clair told the Wall Street Journal that Musk had told her about giving his sperm to a “high-profile woman” after he had been prompted to do so by people he described as “Japanese officials.”

Apparently, Musk met women via his social media site, X, and then would use that relationship to ask them to have his children.

That happened with Tiffany Fong. Musk followed Fong’s X account and promoted her posts to his 219 million followers. She subsequently received payments from X of up to $21,000 over just a two-week period for her content. Then Musk sent her a direct message asking her to have his child. Fong said no. After she told others of Musk’s creepy DM, he unfollowed her, and her income declined accordingly. Fong, the Wall Street Journal explains in a strangely roundabout way, “pictured having children in a more traditional nuclear family.” AKA, she wanted to raise her children together with a loving father rather than be woman No. 7 (or whatever the real number is) to bear Musk a number of children to add to his “legion” of offspring.

Musk also served up a bevy of creepy comments to Ashley St. Clair during the course of their relationship. He told her that they would “need to use surrogates” to achieve the number of children he wanted to have with her. He insisted that she give birth via a cesarean section, claiming that this would ensure the child would be smarter. Then, he pressured her to keep his name off their child’s birth certificate. He texted her, “I want to knock you up again,” and then publicly questioned their child’s paternity.

By revealing all of this to the Wall Street Journal, St. Clair takes on considerable financial risks and exposes herself to public scrutiny over a decision that was not her finest. While Tiffany Fong’s “hell no” to Musk’s creepy request is the clear model to follow here, St. Clair’s public stand against Musk is laudable for exposing the sleazy way he treats women and his own children.

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