Elon Musk's whopping offer to Ashley King to remain silent about their 13th baby
Elon Musk reportedly offered Ashley St Clair a staggering amount in exchange for her silence about their son, named Romulus, but she refused to sign the agreement. Ashley announced in a post on X, a platform that Elon Musk owns, in February that s...

The pair met in spring 2023 via social media and Musk invited her to visit the X offices in San Francisco,
St Ashely has revealed that Musk offered her $15 million as well as an additional $100,000 a month in support in exchange for her silence about the child, who is named Romulus, The Wall Street J ournal reports. Jared Birchall, Musk's wealth manager, told Ashley that similar agreements had been negotiated with the mothers of Musk's other children.
However, Ashley didn't want to stay silent. “I don’t want my son to feel like he’s a secret,” she told Birchall during a two-hour phone call in December, according to the outlet.
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Elon Musk's 13th child
Ashley St. Clair, 26, had claimed that Musk wanted to keep their baby a secret for everyone’s safety. The popular right-wing influencer announced on X, formerly known as Twitter, back in February that she had welcomed a baby boy fathered by the Tesla CEO.Although Musk has never publicly acknowledged being the father of what would be his 14th known child, a legal dispute led to a court-ordered paternity test, which confirmed with 99.9999% certainty that he is the baby’s father.
Musk has previously spoken about how he believes that human civilization is under threat due to a declining population and is personally “doing [his] best to help curb the underpopulation crisis”. During Ashley's pregnancy, he reportedly suggested that they bring in other women to produce more of their children at a quicker rate.
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“To reach legion-level before the apocalypse,” Musk said to Ashley in a text message, “we will need to use surrogates.” Musk also had several other demands of Ashley, including that she deliver the baby via C-section, as he believes doing so allows for a larger brain, and not to undergo a circumcision, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Ashley, who is Jewish, preferred a natural birth and declined to comply with certain requests related to the delivery. However, she did honor Musk’s wish to exclude his name from the birth certificate. After the child was born, Birchall reportedly tried to have Ashley sign a non-disclosure agreement in exchange for financial compensation.
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He eventually invited her to a trip on his private plane to Rhode Island to visit one of his children at school. Musk spoke frequently about having children with St. Clair, telling her 'pick a name' after the first time they had sex.
On a vacation over New Year's heading into 2024, St. Clair revealed she had been ovulating. Musk asked: 'What are we waiting for?' St. Clair said that they conceived Romulus soon after.
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