Elon Musk Pays Ashley St. Clair $2.5 Million: A Deepening Controversy Over Child Support
Elon Musk’s complicated paternity situation has taken another unexpected turn. Following Ashley St. Clair’s announcement that she had given birth to the Tesla CEO’s 13th child, she now claims that Musk has reduced his child support payments for their son. In a video interview with Daily Mail on March 31, Ashley revealed that Musk cut his payments by 60%, a move that has sparked more controversy.
Ashley St. Clair Accuses Elon Musk of Reducing Child Support Payments
In the interview, Ashley was seen handing over the keys to her $100,000 Tesla outside her Manhattan apartment. She commented, “I need to make up for the 60 percent cut that Elon made to our son’s child support.” When asked if she thought Musk was acting out of revenge, Ashley offered a subtle response, saying, “That’s his modus operandi when women speak out.” She further hinted that she wasn’t the only one impacted by his actions, adding, “You can check the stocks; I’m not the only one who is cleaning up after his messes.”
Musk responded to the claims shortly after the video was shared on social media. While he didn’t directly address the child support reduction, he stated that he was still supporting the child financially, saying, “Despite not knowing for sure, I have given Ashley $2.5M and am sending her $500k/year.”
Musk’s Financial Contributions: $2.5 Million for Ashley St. Clair’s Child
In his response, Elon Musk clarified his financial support, saying, “Despite not knowing for sure, I have given Ashley $2.5M and am sending her $500k/year.” While he did not address whether or not the child support had been reduced, his statement reinforces his ongoing contributions.
Ashley had initially disclosed her son’s birth in February, explaining that she had kept the paternity private for the sake of her child’s safety. She wrote on X (formerly Twitter), “I have not previously disclosed this to protect our child’s privacy and safety, but in recent days it has become clear that the tabloid media intends to do so, regardless of the harm it will cause.”
A Complex Family Situation: Elon Musk’s Growing Family
Musk’s family is expanding, with the confirmation of his fourth child with Shivon Zilis. If Ashley’s baby is indeed his, this would make this his 14th child. This growing family and Musk’s involvement have raised more questions about his personal life and financial responsibilities.
In addition to the ongoing child support issues, Ashley has filed for sole custody of their son and has asked the media to respect their privacy. Elon has shown public support for his child, but the situation remains tense as both sides continue to make statements.
For further updates on Elon Musk’s family drama and the ongoing paternity issues, stay tuned.
After Elon moved to Canada at age 17, Maye obtained Canadian citizenship by birthright and moved there too. There, she established a dietician practice and became President of the Consulting Dieticians of Canada. She also worked as a model.
In 2019, after Elon sold his company Zip2 for more than $300 million, he bought his mom an apartment in New York City, where she lived for 13 years and continued her modeling career after being signed to the IMG Models agency.
“I brought my children up like my parents brought us up when we were young: to be independent, kind, honest, considerate and polite,” Maye wrote in an essay for CNBC. “I taught them the importance of working hard and doing good things.”
Though Errol said in a 2015 Forbes interview that he used to often take his kids on trips overseas—”Their mother and I split up when they were quite young and the kids stayed with me. I took them all over the world.”—his relationship with Elon isn’t picture perfect.
In an emotional 2017 Rolling Stone interview, Elon criticized his father and talked about his upbringing, saying that after his parents split, he moved in with his dad, which, he said, “was not a good idea.”
However, Errol told Rolling Stone, “I love my children and would readily do whatever for them.”
Following his divorce from Maye, Errol married Heide, whose daughter Jana Bezuidenhout was 4 years old at the time. Errol and Heide went on to have two daughters together before they, too, broke up.
Years later, Jana reached out to Errol following a breakup of her own. “We were lonely, lost people,” Errol explained in a 2018 interview with The Sunday Times. “One thing led to another—you can call it God’s plan or nature’s plan.”
Either way, the duo became romantic and welcomed son Elliott in 2017 and then a baby girl in 2019. As Errol put it to The Sun, “The only thing we are on Earth for is to reproduce. If I could have another child I would. I can’t see any reason not to.”
Tosca, born in 1974, is a filmmaker. In 2017, she founded Passionflix, a female-focused streaming service that targets the billion-dollar romance novel industry.
“I shrugged it off,” Wilson wrote, “just as I would later shrug off signing the postnuptial agreement, but as time went on, I learned that he was serious.”
The two faced an unthinkable tragedy when their baby boy Nevada Alexander died at 10 weeks from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). “Nevada went down for a nap, placed on his back as always, and stopped breathing,” Justine wrote in her article.
The couple pursued IVF to conceive again and went on to welcome five more kids: Twins Vivian and Griffin and triplets Kai, Saxon and Damian.
In 2008, Elon filed for divorce.
In July 2024, Elon spoke out about his daughter’s transition. “I lost my son, essentially,” he said in a Daily Wire interview with Jordan Peterson, adding that his child, who he referred to by her birth name, was “dead, killed by the woke mind virus.”
He also alleged that he was “tricked” into signing medical documents granting Vivian gender-affirming treatments.
She disputed his comments. “He was not by any means tricked,”
The two divorced in 2012, then remarried a year later before divorcing again in 2016. In June 2024, she wed Love Actually alum Thomas Brodie-Sangster.
“I just broke up with my girlfriend,” Elon told Rolling Stone at the time. “I was really in love, and it hurt bad…Well, she broke up with me more than I broke up with her, I think.”
However, in March 2022, she told Vanity Fair that they “live in separate houses” and are “best friends.”
She later tweeted, “Me and E have broken up *again* since the writing of this article haha, but he’s my best friend and the love of my life, and my life and art are forever dedicated to The Mission now.”
When news broke in September 2023 that the couple had three children together, the “Crystal Ball” singer confirmed that, yes, their most recent addition Techno Mechanicus had joined son X Æ A-12 and daughter Exa Dark Sideræl.
In November 2024, Grimes revealed that she had “spent a year locked in battle in a state with terrible mothers rights having my instagram posts and modeling used as reasons I shouldn’t have my kids,” all the while, “fighting and detaching from the love of my life as he becomes unrecognizable to me.”
Fighting with just a “fraction” of his resources, she was kept from one of her kids for five months, she continued, adding, “This is only what can be said publicly, since most of my experience these last years should remain behind closed doors.”
“X, the unknown variable,” Grimes explained on Twitter. “Æ, my elven spelling of Ai (love &/or Artificial intelligence) A-12 = precursor to SR-17 (our favorite aircraft). No weapons, no defenses, just speed. Great in battle, but non-violent.”
Grimes continued, “A=Archangel, my favorite song” adding a rat and sword emoji. “Metal rat.”
In her 2022 Vanity Fair interview, Grimes revealed she and Elon privately welcomed a baby girl via surrogacy.
“Exa is a reference to the supercomputing term exaFLOPS (the ability to perform 1 quintillion floating-point operations per second),” she said. “Dark, meanwhile, is the unknown. People fear it but truly it’s the absence of photons. Dark matter is the beautiful mystery of our universe.'”
Sideræl—pronounced “sigh-deer-ee-el”—is, according to mom, “the true time of the universe, star time, deep space time, not our relative earth time,” and a nod to her favorite Lord of the Rings character, Galadriel, who “chooses to abdicate the ring.”
Walter Isaacson revealed in his biography Elon Musk that Exa was born in December 2021 via surrogate.
The book also stated that around Father’s Day 2022, the on-again, off-again couple welcomed a child named Techno Mechanicus, nicknamed Tau, also via surrogate. The biography includes a photo, dated June 2022, of Elon feeding the baby boy.
He also seemingly weighed in on the report on X, writing, “Doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis. A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far.”
“Mark my words,” he added, “they are sadly true.”
Walter Isaacson wrote in his 2023 biography Elon Musk that the twins’ full names are Strider Sekhar Sirius and Azure Astra Alice.
