Elon Musk‘s alleged baby mama says she’s been forced to sell her Tesla after the world’s richest man cut her child support in half.
Conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair, 26, was spotted handing over the keys to her black Model S outside her Manhattan apartment on Saturday.
And she had some choice words for the man she says is father to her son.
‘I need to make up for the 60% cut that Elon made to our son’s child support,’ she told a DailyMail.com reporter who witnessed her handing the $100,000 car over to a representative from the online auto sales giant Carvana.
When asked if she felt Musk was being ‘vindictive’ toward her, St. Clair, responded: ‘Well, that’s his modus operandi, when women speak out.
‘You can check the stocks, I’m not the only one who is cleaning up after his messes.
She said of anti-Tesla protests: ‘The markets are catching up to what I have known for a long time.
St. Clair said the last time she tried to speak to Musk was February 13, but he did not respond.
Elon Musk’s alleged baby mama Ashley St. Clair says she’s been forced to sell her Tesla after the world’s richest man cut her child support in half
The conservative influencer, 26, was spotted handing over the keys to her black Model S outside her Manhattan apartment on Saturday
Sources told DailyMail.com that Musk’s behavior toward St. Clair has been ‘shocking and shameful’ after he cut her child support payments in half
St. Clair went public in a bombshell post on Musk’s social media site X last month, sensationally revealing the Tesla and SpaceX owner to be the father of her baby boy, born in September last year.
She says Musk ‘slid into my DMs’ in May 2023, and that the child, who has been named publicly only by his initials ‘R.S.C.’, was conceived early January 2024 on a trip to the island of Saint Barthélemy in the Caribbean.
The DOGE head’s representatives did not immediately return a call asking for comment.
Musk, 53, has not publicly acknowledged the child as his own, but has responded with cryptic emojis to posts on X about St. Clair’s claims.
St. Clair filed a paternity and a custody lawsuit in a New York court on February 21, claiming Musk told her to keep the baby secret, then ghosted her and their son in the middle of child support negotiations, forcing her to go public and take legal action.
A source close to the case told DailyMail.com that since going public, Musk has ‘retaliated’ by slashing her payments in half ‘unilaterally’, leaving St. Clair struggling to make ends meet.
The source described the billionaire’s actions as ‘shocking and shameful’.
‘Ever since she got pregnant and then had the baby, Elon’s been providing support money to her,’ the source said. ‘But he had a fairly specific list of requirements, including not acknowledging he’s the father.
According to insiders, St. Clair has been struggling to make ends meet after Musk allegedly slashed her payments in half in ‘retaliation’ for her going public
DailyMail.com witnessed her handing the $100,000 car over to a representative from the online auto sales giant Carvana in New York City over the weekend
When asked about the sale of the car, St. Clair told DailyMail.com: ‘I need to make up for the 60% cut that Elon made to our son’s child support’
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‘Since the moment she objected to the level of control he demanded, he’s withdrawn from her completely. When she went public with the fact that the baby was his, he’s never spoken to her again.
‘When this thing went into court for custody and paternity, he cut the support payments way back. He cut it by more than half.
‘It’s a substantial reduction, and he obviously did it as a form of retaliation for her going into court,’ the source claimed.
St. Clair also has a three-year-old son from a previous partner, New York chiropractor Johnny Alexander.
She has been raising the toddler and baby with the help of a full-time nanny at her rented three-bed apartment in downtown Manhattan.
‘She bought a Tesla so she’d have a car to transport both the children in. Now she’s selling it because she needs to raise money to cover the expenses she has that Elon has simply not paid.
‘She’s been living on her own. She gets no logistics assistance from Elon. And all of a sudden, she’s punitively given much less money to raise this child than she’s ever had.’
The alleged behavior has given some close to St. Clair a low opinion of Musk.
St. Clair went public about their lovechild in a bombshell post on Musk’s social media site X last month
Musk and St. Clair were photographed together at Twitter’s headquarters in May 2023, DailyMail.com revealed in February
MAGA influencer St. Clair, 26, had sued the Tesla CEO and X owner, 53, in February, seeking sole custody of their son that she says they share, and that he take a paternity test
‘The richest guy in the world, to treat a woman that he made a baby with this way, is shocking and shameful,’ the close source told DailyMail.com.
Musk’s lawyers successfully petitioned the New York judge to seal the case on March 14, keeping its details secret and limiting St. Clair’s ability to speak out.
‘This guy, who is supposedly dedicated to transparency and accountability in government, the first thing he did when he went into court was to try to gag Ashley so that she couldn’t say anything, even as he was unilaterally cutting her support,’ the source said.
St. Clair’s custody petition, obtained by DailyMail.com before the case was sealed, made damning claims against the confirmed father of 12 by three women.
She stated she was ready to go all-in on the relationship, agreeing to ‘relocate to Austin, Texas upon the child’s birth’, then switching to remaining in New York at his request from July last year.
But the court documents paint a callous picture of Musk, claiming he chose not to be present at his son’s birth, that he has only met him three times, and ‘has had no involvement in his care and upbringing’.
She claimed Musk ‘first met R.S.C. on September 21, 2024 in New York City for two hours. He then spent one hour visiting R.S.C. and me the next day, September 22, 2024.’
‘The next, and last time that Respondent saw our child was on November 30, 2024 in Austin, Texas, for only thirty minutes,’ the February 21, 2025 filing said.
‘The richest guy in the world, to treat a woman that he made a baby with this way, is shocking and shameful,’ the source, who is close with St. Clair, told DailyMail.com
St. Clair also has a three-year-old son from a previous partner, New York chiropractor Johnny Alexander. She has been raising the toddler and baby with the help of a full-time nanny at her rented three-bed apartment in downtown Manhattan
The new son with conservative influencer St. Clair would extend Musk’s brood to 13
‘Respondent 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.’
Though filings are now sealed, the case dockets are still visible – and contain hints that the judge is sympathetic to St. Clair’s case.
Her attorney Karen Rosenthal filed a proposed ‘order to show cause’ in St. Clair’s custody case on March 20, likely asking the judge to order Musk to provide responses and engage in the case or face a default judgment, along with 12 exhibits.
Eight days later, Judge Jeffrey Pearlman appears to have acquiesced, issuing the order.
The only filings from Musk’s lawyers in the case, Alyssa Rower and Jennifer Isaacman of Rower LLC, are about having it sealed.
