Elon Musk reportedly reduced ex Ashley St.’s child support Clair from $100,000 to $20,000 after revealing their son | Today’s news
Elon Musk’s ex-partner Ashley St. Clair claimed the billionaire reduced her monthly child support after publicly revealing the birth of their son Romulo in February 2025. St. Clair claimed in Musk, a new documentary by filmmaker Alex Gibney, according to Entertainment Weekly.
St. Clair claimed that after their son was born in September 2024, she was offered a $15 million lump sum and $100,000 in monthly child support in exchange for her silence. She claimed that after she rejected the offer, Musk lowered the monthly payment to $40,000 before further reducing it to $20,000 in February 2025 after she publicly announced their child.
Musk on the claim of St. Clair has not publicly responded.
Ashley St. Clair says Musk showed a different side after the birth of their son
St. Clair, a former conservative influencer, described Musk as “kind” before the birth of their son, but said his demeanor appeared to have changed afterward.
“It was almost like he didn’t show a certain side of himself until we had our baby,” she said in the documentary, as reported by Entertainment Weekly.
St. Clair sued Musk and asked for full custody of Romulus. The custody dispute is still ongoing.
As Musk and St. Clair began to communicate
St. Clair said her relationship with Musk began in 2023, when he began interacting with her posts on X, a social media platform he acquired in 2022, according to the report.
“When Elon started interacting with me on Twitter, I was a conservative influencer,” St. Clair in the documentary. She recalled that Musk often replied to her posts and once responded to a Mother’s Day post by suggesting she should have more children.
St. Clair said Musk presented himself as a “good dad” and gave her the impression that he maintained a “friendly” relationship with the mothers of his children.
“He always said, ‘We should have a baby. You should have a lot more kids. You should have 10 kids,'” she recalled. “Finally, I was like, ‘Well, what does it look like?’
St. Clair claims that Musk contacted other women about having children
The document also states the claim of St. Clair that Musk may have fathered more children than is publicly known. She claimed other women had contacted her about interactions with the billionaire, including claims he had been messaging them and offering to have children with them.
“There was a woman in Japan who basically just wanted to donate sperm, which he obliged,” said St. Clair according to Entertainment Weekly.
She described the alleged pattern of messages as “a Gatling gun of sperm in his DMs”.
Musk has children with several partners, including his first wife Justine Wilson, singer Grimes and technology executive Shivon Zilis. Musk later welcomed another son, Seldon Lycurgus, with Zilis, bringing his reported number of children to 14.
