Ashley St. Clair information paternity lawsuit in opposition to Elon Musk in search of full custody of 5-month-old child

Conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair filed a petition on Friday to legally acknowledge tech billionaire Elon Musk as her kid’s father and search full custody.

The authorized motion comes weeks after the 26-year-old posted on X that she had the kid allegedly fathered by Musk in secret 5 months in the past.

“5 months in the past, I welcomed a brand new child into the world,” St. Clair wrote within the submit. “Elon Musk is the daddy.”

Photographs offered in court docket paperwork confirmed alleged pictures of Elon Musk and screenshots of textual content conversations. (New York Supreme Courtroom)

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In line with a paternity petition filed within the New York Supreme Courtroom, St. Clair alleges the pair acquired right into a romantic relationship in Could 2023, and conceived a toddler in January 2024, in St. Barts.

She famous she didn’t have intercourse with every other man when the kid was conceived, in response to court docket paperwork.

St. Clair mentioned after giving beginning in September 2024, she despatched him a photograph of herself and the toddler, to which he allegedly responded “I sit up for seeing you and him this weekend” and later admitted to being the kid’s father in a dialog surrounding security considerations.

“If I make a mistake on safety, [redacted] won’t ever know his father,” a textual content supposedly despatched from Musk to St. Clair learn.

Photographs offered in court docket paperwork confirmed alleged pictures of Elon Musk and screenshots of textual content conversations. (New York Supreme Courtroom)

St. Clair additionally claims Musk acknowledged the sexual relationship in a Nov. 24, 2024, textual content that learn, “I need to knock you up once more,” and in a Feb. 2, 2025, textual content that learn, “nicely, we do have a legion of children to make.”

Photographs included within the petition allegedly present Musk holding a child whereas on his cellphone, together with screenshots of what look like messages between the couple.

Courtroom paperwork state Musk has solely visited the kid 3 times, has not been concerned in his care, and has not requested for custody.

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“I’m, and all the time have been, the one father or mother and caretaker that R.S.C. has identified,” St. Clair wrote within the petition. “I schedule and take him to all his medical appointments. I’m the one father or mother who cares for him each day. I feed him, bathe him, and make sure that all his bodily and emotional wants are met.”

She added Musk hasn’t seen his alleged son since November, throughout a 30-minute go to.

Musk allegedly by no means requested to see the kid on every other event, and didn’t carry up the kid with out St. Clair’s prompting, and by no means requested for pictures or checked in after physician appointments, in response to court docket paperwork.

Photographs offered in court docket paperwork confirmed alleged pictures of Elon Musk and screenshots of textual content conversations. (New York Supreme Courtroom)

Her attorneys declare they tried to resolve the paternity situation privately, however Musk was not responsive.

If paternity is discovered, St. Clair, a conservative youngsters’s e-book creator who beforehand labored for the satirical information website The Babylon Bee, could be the mom of Musk’s thirteenth baby.

Musk, who lately took cost of President Donald Trump’s Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE), has not publicly commented on the matter, however did reply to a submit from an X consumer stating St. Clair “plotted for HALF A DECADE to ensnare Elon Musk.” 

Musk wrote, “Whoa,” in response.

St. Clair shortly shot again at Musk’s remark, saying she had been making an attempt to succeed in him and would really like a response as an alternative of him “publicly responding to smears.”

Photographs offered in court docket paperwork confirmed alleged pictures of Elon Musk and screenshots of textual content conversations. (New York Supreme Courtroom)

Her attorneys launched a press release noting a tabloid reporter, who “repeatedly ambushed Ashley and her household,” made it inconceivable to deal with the paternity points confidentially. 

“We’re ready for Elon to publicly acknowledge his parental function with Ashley, to finish unwarranted hypothesis, and Ashley trusts that Elon intends to complete their settlement shortly, in the very best pursuits of the wellbeing and safety of the kid they share,” in response to the assertion.

FOX Enterprise reported Claire Boucher, a singer often called Grimes, filed an identical petition in October 2023 in opposition to Musk in California “to determine parental relationship” over her three youngsters.

In contrast to St. Clair’s petition and Boucher’s petition weren’t publicly viewable.

The dispute was settled in Texas in August, Enterprise Insider reported.

Elon Musk and Grimes on the Met Gala crimson carpet. (Taylor Hill)

Nevertheless, Boucher took to X on Thursday claiming one in every of their youngsters was struggling a medical emergency, and she or he couldn’t attain Musk, the New York Publish reported.

“I’m not giving any particulars however he received’t reply to texts name or emails and has skipped each assembly and our baby will endure life lengthy impairment if he doesn’t reply asap, so I want him to f–king reply and if I’ve to use public strain then I assume that’s the place we’re at,” the submit learn, in response to the outlet.

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Boucher’s posts concerning the scenario have since been deleted, in response to The Publish.

Musk couldn’t be reached for a request for remark from Fox Information Digital.

Fox Information Digital’s Danielle Wallace and Greg Norman contributed to this report.