MAGA influencer Ashley St. Clair who came forward on Friday claiming she secretly gave birth to Elon Musk's 13th child has shared more details about an alleged secret relationship with the billionaire tech mogul.
St. Clair, 26, says the romance began with a simple direct message on Musk's X platform.
'Musk was very funny. He was smart. He was very down to Earth. It started with X interactions and he slid into my DMs. I think it was a meme,' St. Clair said as she detailed how the back and forth soon blossomed into a clandestine romance.
In St. Clair's stunning announcement she revealed how she was forced to go public after alleged being instructed to keep the pregnancy under wraps.
'I was told to keep it secret. I was being asked to keep it a secret forever,' she admitted to the New York Post while declining to provide material proof of Musk's paternity.
Musk, for his part, has remained silent on the claims, making numerous posts on X unrelated to the allegations surrounding him.
However, St. Clair's camp insists there has been ongoing private discourse about Musk's involvement in their child's life although she agreed to leave the billionaire’s name off the birth certificate to preserve his privacy, security and confidentiality.
'Ashley & Elon have been privately working towards the creation of an agreement about raising their child for some time,' her representative Brian Glicklich stated.
St. Clair alleges that Musk provided her with a lavish apartment in New York's Financial District, where rent for a two-bedroom can skyrocket to nearly $40,000 a month.
Along with the residence came a security detail - but no public acknowledgment.
'I was completely isolated during my pregnancy. Every part of my career and everything I used to do I couldn't do anymore. I was told not to tell anybody,' she claimed.
'I am a good mom. And that’s what drives most of my decisions and my kids are my whole world,' she told The Post.
The influencer, who previously worked for the conservative satirical website The Babylon Bee, says she first met Musk in May 2023 after a sudden work trip to Twitter's headquarters.
At the age of 24, she claims she was quickly swept into a world of secrecy and luxury.
'At one point, he asked, "Are you ever in San Francisco or Austin?" And I said, "I am in Austin a good amount for work."'
According to St. Clair, the relationship only intensified from there culminating in her pregnancy, which she alleges Musk was adamant about keeping under wraps.
'It is very hard to understate how much I am processing right now. I am sad that my hand was forced by the media to do this now. But there is also a sense of relief because I have been forced to live in secrecy for almost a year of my life,' she wrote on X.
'I cannot explain the kind of primary pain you feel as a mother and you’re talking to people and they ask you about the one kid, and you have to lie and carry this burden and secret. You have to lie to people you love.'
St. Clair also admits she has not spoken with Musk since posting her revelation, though she did notify his team beforehand.
'He ignored it,' she claimed, but notes how she has no regrets and has chosen to chosen to keep the baby's name and gender a secret.
'My child is the most perfect thing that happened to me. I wouldn't change anything,' she insisted.
'Almost every relationship in my life would be bastardized and disingenuous because I couldn't tell them what was going on. My son has never taken a walk outside — in five months. I have never been able to take my baby for a walk. I was terrified that someone would see I had a baby and it would get out,' she revealed.
Now that the secret is finally out, St. Clair is hoping for Elon to publicly acknowledge the allegations.
'We are waiting for Elon to publicly acknowledge his parental role... Ashley trusts that Elon intends to finish their agreement quickly, in the best interests of the wellbeing and security of the child they share,' her representative stated.
'Whoa,' Musk wrote on X in response to a post that claimed, 'Ashley St. Clair plotted for HALF A DECADE to ensnare Elon Musk.'
St. Clair then replied criticizing Musk for replying in public.
'Elon, we have been trying to communicate for the past several days and you have not responded. When are you going to reply to us instead of publicly responding to smears from an individual who just posted photos of me in underwear at 15 years old?' she wrote minutes later.
DailyMail.com revealed on Friday that St Clair moved about a year ago into a swanky Manhattan apartment near City Hall, costing an estimated $12,000 to $15,000 per month.
One resident of the exclusive condo tower, which has been home to VIPs including Fox anchor Jesse Watters and Bill Gates’ daughter, said St Clair was the first person he knew to get a Tesla Cybertruck – and he wondered how the young influencer afforded it.
Neighbors also said that St Clair was apparently living as a single mom, but has a full-time nanny looking after her two children: Musk’s alleged baby and a toddler from her previous relationship.
His list of rumored past girlfriends is extensive. St Clair and the billionaire had already set tongues wagging over her public flirtation with the world’s richest man, 53, on his social media site, X.
They had been messaging each other in public since May 2023 with risqué jokes about ‘dick pics’, innuendo-laden references to ‘pulling out’, ‘how babies are made’ and ‘horny jail’.
He wished her happy birthday last July, she sent him heart emojis, he sent her a lengthy list of book suggestions and told her ‘this is the absolute *best* time in history to have kids!’
Colorado-born St. Clair has built up a million followers on X with a conservative firebrand persona, has authored an anti-woke children's book about gender identity, and has faced criticism for hanging out with alleged white supremacists.
Friends of the conservative influencer knew something big was happening in their friend’s life when she allegedly asked them to sign NDAs, as rumors of her relationship with Musk began to spread.
A resident of the Manhattan residence familiar with St Clair told DailyMail.com that she kept to herself and was very security-conscious, installing a Ring doorbell camera on her apartment door despite the high security at the building.
Some had noticed a few packages piling up outside her door, suggesting that she even had minimal interactions with the building’s staff who deliver mail to each resident.
St Clair kept her pregnancy largely under wraps, keeping her on-camera appearances last year tightly cropped, and not appearing at public events for several months.
But once the baby was born, she continued her meteoric rise in MAGA circles, including showing up at Donald Trump’s election night party at Mar-a-Lago.
St Clair shared photos on X of herself at Trump’s estate congressman Matt Gaetz’s wife Ginger and GOP spokeswoman Elizabeth Pipko.
She has also been pictured with Vivek Ramaswamy and Trump’s FBI Director pick Kash Patel.
Staff at St Clair’s luxury condo tower say they have not seen any sign of Musk – adding that they would have had to ‘shut down’ the building to accommodate his security detail had he visited.
‘The Elon Musk thing doesn’t surprise me,’ a resident of the building told DailyMail.com. ‘She was definitely one of the first people in a pretty large, luxury building to get a Cybertruck.
‘I’ve seen her in the driveway with it quite a few times.’ However, a source close to St Clair denied that she owned a Cybertruck.
The resident familiar with St Clair said that they had not seen any men visiting the apartment, which they said is on one of the building’s highest floors, which come at a rent premium.
‘I have never seen any indication of any man coming in or out of there,’ they told DailyMail.com. ‘She’s not particularly social with other residents,’ they added.
‘There’s definitely a baby, and I believe there’s a toddler as well. ‘Her nanny is very much full time.’
St Clair talked about her first child, a three-year-old boy, in an interview with the New York Post in July 2021 in which she railed against liberal attitudes towards gender identity.
‘I am going to have a little boy in November, and it’s scary to think he could come home and say, “My friends all identify as something else and that’s how I feel” and have my son crying because he’s not put on hormone replacement therapy,’ she told the newspaper.
St Clair has appeared on Fox News, podcasts and web shows, a number of times, speaking on topics including declining birth rates in prosperous nations.
She stepped aside as a 'brand ambassador' for conservative youth organization Turning Point USA in 2019 after posing for a photo with white nationalists.
Among those in the photo were Nicholas Fuentes and Tim Gionet, better know at the time as 'Baked Alaska'.
St Clair said the photo was taken at a 'diverse dinner' that gave her the chance to confront people she disagreed with.
'Some of the people pictured had been vicious to me online and I'm not above confronting people or forgiving people,' she said at the time.
'I'm a strong Jewish woman and don't need to be told where I can and cannot go.'
St Clair is also known for publishing conservative children books, starting with Elephants are Not Birds in 2021.
The book 'tackles the topic of gender identity' and functioned as an 'unapologetic rebuke of transgender acceptance'.
It follows an elephant named Kevin and a vulture named Culture that tries to convince him he's actually a bird because he can sing well.
The vulture gives Kevin a beak and wings to wear - though the elephant struggles to live as a bird despite identifying as one.
When describing the book's plot, St Clair said in the end Kevin 'realizes he's better the way he was made and he can like to sing and still be an elephant.
St Clair was in the news last year when she claimed Delta was flying undocumented immigrants from Arizona to New York City on her flight.
'My Delta flight from Phoenix appears to be flying migrants who crossed the border and are being shipped to New York,' she wrote on X.
