Elon Musk Says He’s Paid Ashley St. Clair $2.5 Million for Alleged Child
While Elon Musk isn't needfully going wherever nary antheral has gone before, the SpaceX CEO has fathered truthful galore children astatine this constituent that adjacent his ain girl Vivian Jenna Wilson has stopped keeping count.
"I volition accidental I bash not really cognize however galore siblings I have, if you see half-siblings," Vivian—one of the Tesla CEO's six kids with archetypal woman Justine Wilson told Teen Vogue in a March interview. "That's conscionable a amusive fact. It's truly bully for 2 truths and a lie."
For the record, the tally is 14, though Musk has driven location the information that he's not 100 percent assured that blimpish influencer Ashley St. Clair's 7-month-old lad is his.
"I don’t cognize if the kid is excavation oregon not, but americium not against uncovering out,” the 53-year-old wrote successful a station connected X (formerly Twitter) March 31. “No tribunal bid is needed."
At the moment, "Despite not knowing for sure," the South Africa autochthonal continued, "I person fixed Ashley $2.5M and americium sending her $500k/year."
Either way, St. Clair—who was seen successful a Daily Mail video handing implicit the keys to her $100,000 Tesla, claiming, "I request to marque up for the 60 percent chopped that Elon made to our son's kid support"—plans to forge connected alone.
"I mean to let our kid to turn successful a mean and harmless environment," the children's publication writer said aft filing for sole custody of her kid successful February. "For that reason, I inquire that the media grant our child's privacy, and refrain from invasive reporting."
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Meanwhile, her small 1 is not adjacent Musk's youngest offspring, with artificial quality specializer Shivon Zilis revealing successful February that she had welcomed a 4th child with him, Seldon Lycurgus joining 3-year-old twins Strider and Azure and 12-month-old Arcadia.
"In airy of beauteous Arcadia’s birthday, we felt it was amended to besides conscionable stock straight astir our fantastic and unthinkable lad Seldon Lycurgus," Zilis wrote connected X. "Built similar a juggernaut, with a coagulated bosom of gold. Love him truthful much."
And of course, the newest subordinate of Musk's furniture has a slew of older siblings to look aft him. Check retired however he's built up his squad.
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Maye Musk (Mom)
Maye was calved successful Saskatchewan, Canada and emigrated with her parents to Pretoria, South Africa successful 1950, erstwhile she was 7. She and Elon's father, Errol Musk, divided successful 1979.
After Elon moved to Canada astatine property 17, Maye obtained Canadian citizenship by birthright and moved determination too. There, she established a dietician signifier and became President of the Consulting Dieticians of Canada. She besides worked arsenic a model.
In 2019, aft Elon sold his institution Zip2 for much than $300 million, helium bought his ma an flat successful New York City, wherever she lived for 13 years and continued her modeling vocation aft being signed to the IMG Models agency.
"I brought my children up similar my parents brought america up erstwhile we were young: to beryllium independent, kind, honest, considerate and polite," Maye wrote in an essay for CNBC. "I taught them the value of moving hard and doing bully things."
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Errol Musk (Dad)
Elon's begetter is an technologist and similar Elon, was calved successful South Africa.
Though Errol said successful a 2015 Forbes interrogation that helium utilized to often instrumentality his kids connected trips overseas—"Their parent and I divided up erstwhile they were rather young and the kids stayed with me. I took them each implicit the world."—his narration with Elon isn't representation perfect.
In an affectional 2017 Rolling Stone interview, Elon criticized his begetter and talked astir his upbringing, saying that aft his parents split, helium moved successful with his dad, which, helium said, "was not a bully idea."
However, Errol told Rolling Stone, "I emotion my children and would readily bash immoderate for them."
Following his divorcement from Maye, Errol joined Heide, whose daughter Jana Bezuidenhout was 4 years aged astatine the time. Errol and Heide went connected to person 2 daughters unneurotic earlier they, too, broke up.
Years later, Jana reached retired to Errol pursuing a breakup of her own. "We were lonely, mislaid people," Errol explained in a 2018 interrogation with The Sunday Times. "One happening led to another—you tin telephone it God's program oregon nature's plan."
Either way, the duo became romanticist and welcomed lad Elliott successful 2017 and past a babe miss successful 2019. As Errol enactment it to The Sun, "The lone happening we are connected Earth for is to reproduce. If I could person different kid I would. I can't spot immoderate crushed not to."
Kimbal Musk & Tosca Musk (Siblings)
Kimbal, calved successful 1972, is simply a restauranteur and the laminitis of The Kitchen, a corporate of 5 restaurants that root straight from section farmers. He besides runs a non-profit, Big-Green, that has built 200 learning gardens successful schools crossed the U.S., the outlet said.
Tosca, calved successful 1974, is simply a filmmaker. In 2017, she founded Passionflix, a female-focused streaming work that targets the billion-dollar romance caller industry.
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Justine Wilson (Ex-Wife)
Elon and Canadian-born Justine, his assemblage sweetheart from Queen's University successful Ontario, joined successful 2000. In a 2010 nonfiction she penned for Marie Claire, titled I Was a Starter Wife: Inside America's Messiest Divorce, Justine said that portion dancing astatine their wedding reception, Elon told her, "I americium the alpha successful this marriage."
In the moment, "I shrugged it off," Wilson wrote, "just arsenic I would aboriginal motion disconnected signing the postnuptial agreement, but arsenic clip went on, I learned that helium was serious."
The 2 faced an unthinkable calamity erstwhile their babe lad Nevada Alexander died astatine 10 weeks from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). "Nevada went down for a nap, placed connected his backmost arsenic always," Justine wrote successful her article, "and stopped breathing."
The mates pursued IVF to conceive again and went connected to invited 5 much kids: Twins Vivian and Griffin and triplets Kai, Saxon and Damian.
In 2008, Elon filed for divorce.
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Griffin, Kai, Damian & Saxon Musk (Sons)
In 2022, Elon revealed helium took Griffin and the triplets to conscionable Pope Francis. While helium was honored to conscionable the caput of the Catholic church, Elon added of his 'fit, "My suit is tragic."
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Vivian Jenna Wilson (Daughter)
Also successful 2022, Griffin's duplicate sister filed a petition to alteration her afloat sanction successful accordance with her caller sex identity, writing, "I nary longer unrecorded with oregon privation to beryllium related to my biologic begetter successful immoderate way, signifier oregon form."
In July 2024, Elon spoke retired astir his daughter's transition. "I mislaid my son, essentially," helium said successful a Daily Wire interrogation with Jordan Peterson, adding that his child, who helium referred to by her commencement name, was "dead, killed by the woke caput virus."
He besides alleged that helium was "tricked" into signing aesculapian documents granting Vivian gender-affirming treatments.
She disputed his comments. "He was not by immoderate means tricked," she said successful an NBC News. "He knew the afloat broadside effects."
In a 2025 Teen Vogue interview, Vivian revealed that she relocated from L.A. to Japan and hasn't spoken to her begetter since 2020. "He's a pathetic man-child," she surmised. "Why should I beryllium frightened of this man? Because he's rich? I don't springiness a f--k however overmuch wealth anyone has."
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Talulah Riley (Ex-Wife)
Elon and Talulah—who starred connected HBO's Westworld—married successful 2010. "It each happened precise fast," she told CBS News successful 2014. "We were engaged after, I think, 2 weeks of knowing each other."
The 2 divorced successful 2012, past remarried a twelvemonth aboriginal earlier divorcing again successful 2016. In June 2024, Talulah wed Love Actually alum Thomas Brodie-Sangster.
Amber Heard (Ex-Girlfriend)
Elon and Amber went nationalist with their romance successful aboriginal 2017, a twelvemonth aft she filed for divorcement from Johnny Depp and Elon ended his (second) matrimony to Talulah. Though their narration didn't past long.
"I conscionable broke up with my girlfriend," Elon told Rolling Stone in a November 2017 interview. "I was truly successful love, and it wounded bad...Well, she broke up with maine much than I broke up with her, I think."
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Grimes (Ex-Girlfriend)
Elon and the vocalist dated on-and-off for 4 years, starting successful 2018. In September 2021, Elon told Page Six that helium and Grimes "are, I'd say, astir apt semi-separated," adding, "It's mostly that my enactment astatine SpaceX and Tesla requires maine to beryllium chiefly successful Texas oregon traveling overseas and her enactment is chiefly successful LA. She's staying with maine present and Baby X is successful the adjacent room."
However, successful March 2022, she told Vanity Fair that they "live successful abstracted houses" and are "best friends."
She aboriginal tweeted, "Me and E person breached up *again* since the penning of this nonfiction haha, but he's my champion person and the emotion of my life, and my beingness and creation are everlastingly dedicated to The Mission now."
When quality broke successful September 2023 that the mates really had 3 children together, the "Crystal Ball" vocalist confirmed that, yes, their astir caller summation Techno Mechanicus had joined son X Æ A-12 and girl Exa Dark Sideræl.
In November 2024, Grimes revealed that she had "spent a twelvemonth locked successful conflict successful a authorities with unspeakable mothers rights having my instagram posts and modeling utilized arsenic reasons I shouldn't person my kids," each the while, "fighting and detaching from the emotion of my beingness arsenic helium becomes unrecognizable to me."
Fighting with conscionable a "fraction" of his resources, she was kept from 1 of her kids for 5 months, she continued, adding, "This is lone what tin beryllium said publicly, since astir of my acquisition these past years should stay down closed doors."
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X Æ A-Xii Musk (Son)
In 2020, Elon and Grimes welcomed their archetypal kid together, a son. They soon modified the spelling of his sanction successful bid to conscionable California's ineligible guidelines, which lone licence letters from the English alphabet. Switching implicit to roman numerals, the parents agreed to spell his name, X Æ A-Xii.
"X, the chartless variable," Grimes explained connected societal media. "Æ, my elven spelling of Ai (love &/or Artificial intelligence) A-12 = precursor to SR-17 (our favourite aircraft). No weapons, nary defenses, conscionable speed. Great successful battle, but non-violent."
Grimes continued, "A=Archangel, my favourite song" adding a rat and sword emoji. "Metal rat."
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Exa Dark Sideræl & Techno Mechanicus Musk (Kids)
In her 2022 Vanity Fair interview, Grimes revealed she and Elon privately welcomed a babe miss via surrogacy.
"Exa is simply a notation to the supercomputing word exaFLOPS (the quality to execute 1 quintillion floating-point operations per second)," she said. "Dark, meanwhile, is the unknown. People fearfulness it but genuinely it's the lack of photons. Dark substance is the beauteous enigma of our universe.'"
Sideræl—pronounced "sigh-deer-ee-el"—is, according to mom, "the existent clip of the universe, prima time, heavy abstraction time, not our comparative world time," and a motion to her favourite Lord of the Rings character, Galadriel, who "chooses to abdicate the ring."
Walter Isaacson revealed successful his biography Elon Musk that Exa was calved successful December 2021 via surrogate.
The publication besides stated that astir Father's Day 2022, the on-again, off-again mates welcomed a kid named Techno Mechanicus, nicknamed Tau, besides via surrogate. The biography includes a photo, dated June 2022, of Elon feeding the babe boy.
Though Grimes would similar different salient details beryllium kept private. "I person tried begging the nationalist and my kids dada to support them offline, and I've tried ineligible recourse," she shared connected societal media successful 2025. "The authorities of my children's lives being nationalist is of sedate interest to maine and I deliberation astir however to lick this each day. It's insane to maine that theres nary mode to woody with this."
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Strider & Azure (Kids)
In 2022, Business Insider published tribunal documents that stated Elon welcomed twins with Neuralink enforcement Shivon Zilis in November 2021. The babies were calved successful Austin, Texas, wherever helium lives.
He besides seemingly weighed successful connected the study connected X, writing, "Doing my champion to assistance the underpopulation crisis. A collapsing commencement complaint is the biggest information civilization faces by far."
"Mark my words," helium added, "they are sadly true."
Walter Isaacson wrote successful his 2023 biography Elon Musk that the twins' afloat names are Strider Sekhar Sirius and Azure Astra Alice.
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Arcadia (Kid)
On Feb. 28, 2024, Elon and Shivon welcomed their 3rd babe together. The billionaire confirmed the quality successful June 2024, telling Page Six, "All our friends and household know," adding, "Failure to contented a property release, which would beryllium bizarre, does not mean 'secret.'"
One twelvemonth later, Shivon tweeted, "Happy 1st birthday, darling Arcadia. Mommy loves you with each her heart."
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Ashley St. Clair (Alleged Mother of His Child)
Roses are red, violets are bluish and connected Valentine's Day 2025, blimpish influencer Ashley St. Clair had a small sharing to do.
“Five months ago, I welcomed a caller babe into the world. Elon Musk is the father,” the Elephants Are Not Birds author wrote on X Feb. 14. “I person not antecedently disclosed this to support our child's privateness and safety, but successful caller days it has go wide that the tabloid media intends to bash so, careless of the harm it volition cause.”
“I mean to let our kid to turn successful a mean and harmless environment,” she continued. “For that reason, I inquire that the media grant our child's privacy, and refrain from invasive reporting.”
Weeks aft her rep called connected Elon to “publicly admit his parental relation with Ashley,” she accused him of cutting his kid enactment payments for the baby, prompting him to code the substance connected societal media.
“I don’t cognize if the kid is excavation oregon not, but americium not against uncovering out,” helium wrote successful a station connected X March 31, adding, “Despite not knowing for sure, I person fixed Ashley $2.5M and americium sending her $500k/year.”
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Seldon Lycurgus (Son)
Elon and Shivon announced connected Feb. 28, 2025, that they had welcomed their 4th child, a babe lad named Seldon Lycurgus. They were inspired to stock the quality portion marking their 3rd child's archetypal travel astir the sun.
"Discussed with Elon and, successful airy of beauteous Arcadia’s birthday, we felt it was amended to besides conscionable stock straight astir our fantastic and unthinkable lad Seldon Lycurgus," she wrote connected X. "Built similar a juggernaut, with a coagulated bosom of gold. Love him truthful much."
Elon responded with a bosom emoji.