Elon Musk claims he has forked out at least $2.5 million in payments to Ashley St Clair but maintains he does not know if he is the father of her 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥.

It comes after DailyMail.com spoke to St. Clair, who sold her $100,000 Model S Tesla, outside her Manhattan apartment on Saturday.

‘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.

DOGE chief Musk – who is currently entangled in a custody lawsuit with St. Clair – addressed the rumors on X, the social media platform he owns, on Monday.

‘I don’t know if the 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥 is mine or not, but am not against finding out. No court order is needed, he said.

He then spelled out the amount of money he has provided the conservative influencer.

‘Despite not knowing for sure, I have given Ashley $2.5M and am sending her $500k/year.’

St. Clair immediately clapped back, calling Musk a ‘petulant man-𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥’ who needed to take responsibility.

Elon Musk (pictured) claimed ‘I don’t know’ if the 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥 alleged 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦 mama Ashley St. Clair gave 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 to is his but said he has already given her $2.5million whether it is or not

St. Clair (pictured) immediately clapped back, calling Musk a ‘petulant man-𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥’ who needed to take responsibility

‘Elon, we asked you to confirm paternity through a test before our 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥 (who you named) was even 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧. You refused,’ she said.

She also clarified that it wasn’t sending her money but ‘sending support for your 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥 that you thought was necessary… until you withdrew most of it to maintain control and punish me for “disobedience.” But you’re really only punishing your son.’

St. Clair then referenced his most recent move in court, an attempt to silence her, while he posts on X.

‘It’s ironic that your last effort in court was to try to gag me while you use a social media channel you literally own to distribute derogatory messages about me and our 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥 to the entire world. It’s all about control with you, and everyone can see it.’

She dropped one last insult to the CEO of multiple companies and Donald Trump’s closest ally in Washington: ‘America needs you to grow up, you petulant man-𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥.’

Musk has yet to respond directly to St. Clair on social media.

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  ‘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’ but did not acknowledge the alleged payments admitted by Musk on Monday.

‘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.

‘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.

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

‘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.

‘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.

St. Clair has been raising the toddler and 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦 with the help of a full-time nanny at her rented three-bed apartment in downtown Manhattan

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

‘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.

‘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.

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.