Ashley St. Clair
Introduction
Ashley St. Clair is an American influencer and author, born July 31, 1998, who spent years as a fixture of the online right β a writer for The Babylon Bee, a Turning Point USA brand ambassador and a Fox News guest talking up America’s declining birth rate β before a relationship with Elon Musk made her a target of the movement she came from. She announced on X in February 2025 that she had given birth to Musk’s child, and the two have been locked in a custody fight ever since. In January 2026 she publicly renounced the anti-trans activism that built her following; by October 2026 she was a dues-paying member of the Democratic Socialists of America, and the right’s pile-on was in full swing β a viral mock thread framing her entire story as entitlement.
Background Information
St. Clair was a longtime writer for the right-wing satirical site The Babylon Bee and served as a brand ambassador for Turning Point USA, appearing on Fox News to talk about declining birth rates. She wrote the 2021 children’s book “Elephants Are Not Birds,” published by Brave Books, which she billed as an unapologetic rebuke of transgender acceptance, and appeared in Conservative Dad’s Ultra Right “Real Women of America 2024” calendar. In 2023 she accused Delta Air Lines of flying migrants released from a detention center on her domestic flight β a claim that went viral. She endorsed Donald Trump in the 2024 election and had amassed over one million followers on X by January 2026.
She met Musk on X in 2023 β “he slid into my DMs,” she told the New York Post β gave birth to his son, Romulus, in 2024, and spent the pregnancy in secrecy: a Financial District apartment, a security detail, and instructions, she says, to keep his paternity off the birth certificate and the birth quiet forever. Texts between St. Clair and Musk’s money manager Jared Birchall viewed by the Post appear to show she complied. Musk, whose representatives did not respond to the outlet, had not acknowledged the child when the story broke.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Allegations. The claims in this section are contested claims from a public paternity and custody dispute, court filings and press interviews. The $40 million NDA offer is denied by Musk; the 60% child-support cut is St. Clair’s account of her own finances; Musk initially never publicly acknowledged the child. Nothing here was admitted by Musk, criminally charged, or adjudicated in court β the custody case remains live litigation, and no court has ruled on any of the money claims.
The chain that made her a national story and then a right-wing villain ran in steps. On February 14, 2025 β forced, she said, by tabloid reporters closing in β St. Clair announced on X that she had borne Musk’s 13th child five months earlier. Musk stayed publicly silent. On March 31, 2025 she sold her Tesla in public view, saying her child support had been cut by 60% as punishment by Musk for “disobedience,” and said she needed to start a podcast to stave off an imminent eviction. She filed for sole custody of the boy in New York. In January 2026, a day after she apologized on X for her past anti-trans remarks β “I feel immense guilt for my role” β Musk announced he would file for full custody, citing “her statements implying she might transition a one-year-old boy”; the Post noted it was not clear she had ever indicated any such thing. The same month she sued xAI in New York state court for punitive and compensatory damages.
The pile-on has been concrete. After Twitter’s Grok image-editing feature rolled out, St. Clair reported being deluged with AI-edited images of herself β nude and in sexual positions, some based on photos of her as a minor β and said neither Musk nor the platform did anything to counteract them. Musk supporters harassed her online and in person; she described stalkers sending images of her toddler doctored with blood. In September 2026 she appeared as a central voice in Alex Gibney’s documentary “Musk” and told the Venice Film Festival that she had walked away from a $40 million NDA offer β $15 million up front plus $100,000 a month for 21 years, sent via disappearing Signal message by Birchall, per her account to the New York Times β because, in her words, “my children’s dignity is not a commodity.” Musk denied that any such offer existed.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The reaction split down her old political lines. The right that made her β the million followers, the calendar shoots, the Fox bookings β treated her break as betrayal. After her January 2026 apology, Musk announced the custody filing within a day. In October 2026, the X account @raqisright posted a mock “Be Ashley St Claire” checklist β “Change your entire political ideology because a man doesn’t want you,” “Make up a 40M dollar offer that Elon says never existed,” “Convince yourself you’re the victim in every chapter,” closing “The entitlement is crazy” β quoting an interview clip posted by the aggregator Bad Hombre the day before, in which St. Clair said she had become a dues-paying DSA member and expressed guilt over her past advocacy; the clip drew roughly 2.2 million views.
On the other side, the coverage documented what leaving cost her: the Grok deepfake campaign including sexualized images based on photos of her as a minor, stalkers threatening her toddler, and a mother of two saying on the record that she had traded a movement’s approval for the ability to speak. Mainstream outlets treated her NDA account as a news event and carried Musk’s denial alongside it.
Current Status
The custody fight remains live: St. Clair’s sole-custody suit is on file in New York, and Musk declared in January 2026 that he would file for full custody. Her xAI lawsuit is pending. “Musk” opened theatrically in October 2026 with her as a central voice, and she gave a round of interviews β CNN, the New York Times β saying she had left MAGA entirely and joined DSA. She has faced no criminal charge and no court has adjudicated any of the disputes; the paternity, money and custody claims are all live litigation between private parties.
Impact on Their Career/Life
St. Clair’s case is a study in what the online right does with an apostate woman. The same features that made her a star β the follower count, the calendar shoots, the willingness to be a talkable character β were turned into the mock-thread format that now follows her, and the platform she built on the right became the instrument of her harassment, from Grok deepfakes to stalkers at her door. She went from Brave Books’ flagship author to a plaintiff suing xAI; from Trump endorser to DSA member; from the movement’s birth-rate poster woman to a single mother publicly fighting the world’s richest man over child support. Whatever a reader thinks of her choices, the movement’s response to her leaving β deepfakes of her as a minor, a custody fight framed as ideology, and “the entitlement is crazy” β is the documented record.
Sources
- Wikipedia, “Ashley St. Clair” β source
- New York Post, “Ashley St. Clair, influencer who claims to have had Musk’s 13th child, reveals life of secrecy,” Feb 15, 2025 β source
- New York Post, “Elon Musk wants full custody of son after baby mama Ashley St. Clair’s comments on transgenderism,” Jan 12, 2026 β source
- New York Daily News via Arcamax, “Elon Musk ex Ashley St. Clair says she was offered $40 million for her silence,” Sept 2026 β source
- Hindustan Times, “Ashley St. Clair says ‘my children’s dignity is not a commodity’ as she speaks out in new interview on Elon Musk, NDA and MAGA,” Oct 2026 β source
- Yahoo Entertainment (USA TODAY), “Ashley St. Clair details first meeting with Elon Musk,” Oct 2026 β source
- X, @raqisright, “Be Ashley St Claire” post, Oct 11, 2026 β source
- X, @Badhombre, St. Clair interview-clip post, Oct 10, 2026 β source