Author Ashley St Clair has recently made a big claim that she welcomed Elon Musk’s thirteenth child five months ago.
She made the announcement on X, stating that she and the billionaire entrepreneur, 53, share a child together.
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With this latest addition, Musk is now a father of 13 children over the past two decades.
The Tesla and SpaceX chief, who also owns X, has children with three other women apart from St. Clair.
Notably, he has long backed increasing birth rates and warned about population decline.
But who exactly is Ashley St. Clair? And what do we know about Musk’s other 12 children and the women he shares them with?
What we know about Ashley St Clair: Explained in 10 points
1. The 26-year-old is a conservative who has previously drawn controversy for associating with far-right figures.
2. Born in Florida and raised in Colorado, St Clair has gained a million followers on X and created a reputation as a conservative firebrand.
Alea Iacta Est pic.twitter.com/gvVaFNTGqn
— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) February 15, 2025
3. She has written an anti-woke children’s book and has faced criticism for her links to alleged white supremacists.
4. A resident of St. Clair’s Manhattan apartment building told Dailymail that she kept to herself and was highly security-conscious, even installing a ring doorbell camera despite the building’s already tight security.
5. She kept her pregnancy largely private, limiting her on-camera appearances last year to tightly cropped shots and avoiding public events for several months. However, after giving birth, she remained well-known in Maga circles and even attended Donald Trump’s election night party at Mar-a-Lago.
6. St Clair is a longtime writer for ‘The Babylon Bee’, a right-wing satire site. She stepped down as a ‘brand ambassador’ for the conservative youth group Turning Point USA in 2019.
She kept her pregnancy largely private. Image courtesy: X/@stclairashley
7. She is best known for her children’s book ‘Elephants Are Not Birds’, published by Brave Books. The book challenges gender identity concepts and serves as an ‘unapologetic rebuke of transgender acceptance’.
8. St Clair has made multiple appearances on Fox News, podcasts, and online shows, often discussing topics such as declining birth rates in wealthy nations.
9. Around a year ago, she moved into a luxury Manhattan apartment near City Hall, which has an estimated rent between $12,000 and $15,000 per month. A resident of the exclusive condo complex, which has housed VIPs and celebrities, told Dailymail that St Clair was the first person he knew to own a Tesla Cybertruck.
10. In 2023, she spoke out on immigration, sharing a video on X in which she described a Delta Airlines flight from Phoenix to New York City being filled with migrants released from a detention centre. She criticised taxpayer money being used for their transport and questioned whether the passengers had undergone medical screening.
All about Elon Musk’s 12 other children
Musk has frequently expressed his belief that having more children is essential for the future of humanity. He has argued that declining birth rates are a serious threat and that he is personally contributing to addressing what he perceives as a global underpopulation crisis.
“Having children should be incentivised, not be a financial penalty like it is in most countries!” Musk wrote on his social media platform X (formerly Twitter) in 2023.
“We must create the next generation of humans or spiral into oblivion.”
Elon Musk’s children: 6 with Justine Wilson
Walter Isaacson’s recent biography of the Tesla and SpaceX chief threw more light on Justine, whom Musk met at 19 while studying at Queen’s University in Ontario. The two married in the Caribbean.
South African internet entrepreneur Elon Musk marries Justine Wilson, a Canadian author, in a small and private ceremony in Ottawa. pic.twitter.com/qNj2RZUStA
— 2000 Live (@25YearsAgoLive) January 9, 2025
Their relationship was often rocky, marked by frequent public arguments. Justine told Isaacson that Musk “never hesitated to let me know that I was wrong about something.”
Wilson and Musk got a divorce in 2008.
Nevada Alexander Musk
The Tesla founder became a father for the first time in 2002 when his ex-wife, Canadian author Justine Wilson, gave birth to their son, Nevada Alexander. However, Nevada passed away at just 10 weeks old.
“My firstborn son died in my arms,” Musk wrote in a February 2022 email exchange, as reported by Business Insider India.
“I felt his heartbeat.”
The couple later had five more children: twins Vivian and Griffin, followed by triplets Kai, Saxon, and Damian in 2006.
Vivian (legally Vivian Jenna Wilson)
Vivian, who is transgender, publicly separated herself from Musk in 2022 by legally changing her surname to Wilson.
She also declared that she no longer wished to have any connection with her father.
Elon Musk’s estranged daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson is having fun on TikTok. 🤣 pic.twitter.com/XGPxEdKYEl
— Miss Jilianne (@MissJilianne) August 8, 2024
In a 2024 conversation with conservative commentator Jordan Peterson, Musk said that Vivian had been “killed by the woke mind virus.”
Griffin Musk
Griffin, unlike his twin, has largely remained away from the public eye but has occasionally been seen accompanying his father at events.
An October 2024 profile in the New York Times revealed that both Griffin and Vivian were conceived through in vitro fertilisation (IVF).
Kai, Saxon and Damian
In 2006, Wilson gave birth to triplets Kai, Saxon, and Damian through IVF.
Notably, Damian has shown exceptional talent in classical music and has a strong aptitude for mathematics and physics.
Musk’s children: 3 with musician Grimes
Musk and Grimes, whose birth name is Claire Boucher, share three children.
Elon musk relationships…
Grimes 2018-2022 pic.twitter.com/beSgXLC2x3
— Mthaniya16 (@Mthaniya16m) February 11, 2025
The pair ended their relationship in September 2021 but later reunited before parting ways again. Their relationship has been marked by ups and downs, including public disagreements over custody.
In 2023, Grimes initiated legal proceedings to secure parental rights, according to NBC News.
X Æ A-12
Their first child, X Æ A-Xii (pronounced “X Ash A Twelve”), was born in May 2020.
X Æ A-Xii is growing up in a world of innovation, guided by one of the greatest minds of our time. It’s amazing to see glimpses of his journey alongside Elon Musk—exploring tech, space, and the future. Wishing him a bright path ahead! #XAeAXii #FutureInnovator@elonmusk pic.twitter.com/kBXAeN1e3D
— Gen.Bakthyar افغان (@GenBakthyar) February 12, 2025
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In December 2021, they welcomed their daughter, Exa Dark Sideræl Musk, known as “Y,” through a surrogate.
During a March 2022 interview with Vanity Fair, Grimes explained that the name is pronounced “sigh-deer-ee-el” but that they call her “Y.”
Techno Mechanicus
Their third child, Techno Mechanicus, whose nickname is “Tau,” was born in 2022.
Grimes referenced Techno in a detailed post on X, writing, “I wish I could show u how cute little Techno is but my priority rn is keeping my babies out of the public eye.”
Musk’s children: 3 with Shivon Zilis
Walter Isaacson, who authored a biography on Musk and a Time magazine cover story, referred to Shivon Zilis in his Time feature as Musk’s “intellectual companion on artificial intelligence since the founding of OpenAI eight years earlier.”
Zilis, a senior executive at Neuralink, was present at Trump’s inauguration alongside Musk in January.
Elon Musk and Shivon Zilis with their twins in Austin, Texas@shivon @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/0MjDCWlUdz
— Dima Zeniuk (@DimaZeniuk) December 30, 2023
She was also recently spotted during a meeting between Musk and Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his US visit.
With a strong background in artificial intelligence, Zilis has continued working with Musk while also balancing her role as a parent.
Strider, Azure and Musk’s 12th child
In November 2021, Musk and Zilis welcomed twins Strider and Azure. Their names and genders became publicly known only in September 2023.
Their third child was born in 2024, but neither the baby’s name nor gender has been disclosed. “All our friends and family know,” Musk told Page Six in June 2024, shortly after reports of the child’s birth surfaced.
The billionaire’s children reside in different places, but as reported by The New York Times, Musk bought a $35 million estate in Texas to bring some of them closer.
The property is said to include multiple homes, designed to house his expanding family and offer a stable setting for his younger children.
