On Feb. 21, MAGA influencer Ashley St. Clair petitioned the Supreme Court of New York for sole legal custody of her 5-month-old son.
She listed Elon Musk as the father.
In the court documents obtained by TODAY.com, St. Clair claimed: "I am, and always have been, the only parent and caretaker that R.S.C. has known." (R.S.C. are her infant son's initials.) Musk, she said, only met the child three times since his birth in Sept. 2024.
St. Clair stated, "I am the only parent to make decisions for R.S.C. I schedule and take him to all his medical appointments. I am the only parent who cares for him on a daily basis. I feed him, bathe him and ensure that all his physical and emotional needs are met."
On Feb. 14 St. Clair stated on X, which Musk owns, that she is the mother of his 13th child. TODAY.com reached out to Musk, who has not responded. He has not publicly responded to St. Clair's claim.
St. Clair said in her court petition that Musk "has never asked to see our child on any other occasion, he has never communicated to me about our child without my prompting, he has never asked for photos of our child or checked in after doctor’s appointments."
The legal parentage of her child has not yet been established; St. Clair filed a paternity petition at the same time as her custody petition.
In the petition for paternity, also obtained by TODAY.com, St. Clair says that she and Musk began their romantic relationship "in or about May 2023."
St. Clair said that Musk "acknowledged parentage of the child in various written correspondence."
She said in the legal petition that after sending Musk a photo of herself and her son after his birth, Musk replied, “I look forward to seeing you and him this weekend,” and added, “if I make a mistake on security, R. will never know his father.” He wrote that leaving his name off the birth certificate was "necessary for now."
St. Clair also claimed that Musk acknowledged their sexual relationship and her resulting pregnancy in written correspondence.
She said in the court petition that Musk wrote, "I want to knock you up again," in November 2024, and in February 2025 he stated, "well, we do have a legion of kids to make."
Musk is a prominent "pronatalist," and has been outspoken in his belief that people should have many children.
St. Clair is a conservative columnist who has aligned herself strongly with President Trump and the MAGA movement.
In 2019, the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA cut ties with her after she was photographed at a dinner that included white nationalists, including Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, according to The Forward news outlet.
According to the paternity petition, St. Clair said she attempted to resolve the issue through lawyers privately "so that it did not become public." The court documents include an unsigned agreement requesting Musk to submit to a genetic marker test within six months of the baby's birth.
Previous to this claim, Musk has acknowledged fathering 12 children with three different women.
Musk, the world's richest man and a close advisor to President Donald Trump, has six children with his ex-wife Justine Wilson. Their first child, a boy named Nevada, died as an infant. He and his then-wife had five more children: twins and then a set of triplets. Musk later welcomed three children with musician Grimes, whose legal name is Claire Elise Boucher, and twins and another child with tech executive Shivon Zilis.
