Musk goes ‘offline’ after Maga influencer claims she gave birth to his 13th child

Elon Musk has vowed to take a break from his social media website after a Maga influencer claimed to have given delivery to his thirteenth youngster.

Ashley St Clair, a 26-year-old Proper-wing author, wrote on X that she and Mr Musk had a five-month-old youngster and reprimanded the world’s richest man for failing to reply.

“5 months in the past, I welcomed a brand new child into the world. Elon Musk is the daddy,” she wrote. “I’ve not beforehand disclosed this to guard our youngster’s privateness and security, however in latest days it has develop into clear that tabloid media intends to take action, whatever the hurt it’ll trigger.”

She later added: “Elon, we now have been attempting to speak for the previous a number of days and you haven’t responded.”

Mr Musk, who has fathered 12 children throughout three relationships, didn’t affirm or deny the influencer’s declare however reacted to a British X person’s suggestion that Ms St Clair’s being pregnant was pre-planned.

“Ashley St Clair plotted for half a decade to ensnare Elon Musk,” wrote Milo Yiannopoulos. The submit was accompanied by a screenshot showing to point out Ms St Clair telling Greg Value, a fellow media character, on X that she wanted to draw Mr Musk’s consideration for a wedding proposal – years earlier than the pair would meet.

“Whoa,” Mr Musk responded, earlier than saying he can be uncharacteristically “offline” for the weekend to work on his Grok 3 AI venture.

Ms St Clair, who beforehand labored for The Babylon Bee, a satirical web site, and has written an “anti-woke” kids’s e book about gender identification, responded: “When are you going to answer to us as an alternative of publicly responding to smears from a person who simply posted images of me in underwear at 15 years outdated?”

The Maga influencer added that Mr Musk’s staff had already been made conscious of the social media posts, which have been “clearly in jest”.

In an interview with The New York Submit, revealed on Saturday, Ms St Clair claimed that Mr Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO had “slid into her DMs” on X in Might 2023.

She claimed he had messaged her: “Are you ever in San Francisco or Austin?” to which she responded: “I’m in Austin quantity for work.”‘

This reportedly led to a suggestion to interview Mr Musk on the Twitter HQ in San Francisco, which was organized by her firm inside two days.

Not lengthy after the interview, Ms St Clair mentioned she had obtained one other message from Mr Musk asking: “Really feel like going to Windfall [Rhode Island] tonight?”

“I used to be informed to maintain it secret. I used to be being requested to maintain it a secret perpetually,” she mentioned, referring to her being pregnant, alleging that she had agreed to go away the billionaire’s identify off the delivery certificates to protect his privateness.

Florida-born Ms St Clair alleged that she was put up in a lavish condominium in New York’s monetary district, whereas her buddies have been reportedly made to signal NDAs.

“I used to be fully remoted throughout my being pregnant. Each a part of my profession and every part I used to do I couldn’t do any extra. I used to be informed to not inform anyone,” she claimed.

Brian Glicklich, the writer’s consultant, mentioned the pair had been working “privately” on an settlement for elevating their youngster.

“We’re ready for Elon to publicly acknowledge his parental position with Ashley, to finish unwarranted hypothesis, and Ashley trusts that Elon intends to complete their settlement rapidly, in the most effective pursuits of the wellbeing and safety of the kid they share,” he wrote on X.

Mr Musk has in a roundabout way responded to the revelations, however has responded to a fan asking if making one other child was one among his “aspect quests” by posting a crying laughing emoji.

The billionaire, who has admitted being “obsessed” with the plight of falling delivery charges, has 12 different kids spanning three relationships.

He shares 5 kids with Justine Wilson, his first spouse, with whom he has twins Vivian and Griffin and triplets Kai, Saxon and Damian. The pair misplaced their first-born youngster at 10 weeks to sudden toddler dying syndrome.

In 2022, aged 18, Vivian modified her identify from Xavier to Vivian, dropped her father’s identify and sought gender transition.

In an interview with Jordan Peterson, a Canadian tutorial, in 2024, Mr Musk declared that his trans daughter was useless to him, and that he was “tricked” into giving consent for his youngster to take puberty blockers.

“I misplaced my son, primarily. They name it deadnaming for a purpose,” he mentioned. “My son Xavier is useless, killed by the woke thoughts virus.”

His marriage to Ms Wilson, a Canadian writer, lasted from 2000 to 2008, with Mr Musk later claiming that he contributes $20,000 a month in youngster assist.

Mr Musk’s high-profile relationship with the musician Grimes introduced the delivery of X Æ A-Xii, referred to as X – who has been seen accompanying his father across the White Home – his daughter Exa Darkish Sideræl, and son Techno Mechanicus.

Grimes, who has beforehand spoken about wanting privateness for her youngster, reacted with dismay as Mr Musk paraded the toddler at a press occasion within the Oval Workplace.

“He shouldn’t be in public like this,” Grimes wrote on X in response to a person complimenting her for elevating a “very well mannered” youngster. “I didn’t see this, thanks for alerting me. However I’m glad he was well mannered. Sigh,” she wrote.

Mr Musk shares twins, Strider and Azure, with Shivon Zilis, a Neuralink government. The pair welcomed a 3rd youngster early final 12 months.

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