It looked like a match made in MAGA heaven: DOGE mastermind Elon Musk, 53, and his alleged 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦 mama, a 26-year-old conservative influencer and seasoned Mar-a-Lago guest, Ashley St. Clair.
The two sparked talk of a budding romance with their months-long, very public flirty exchanges on the tech mogul’s social media platform, X.
But St. Clair finally validated the rumors on Valentines Day when she shockingly claimed in an X post that she had Musk’s 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦 five months ago.
And it appears the clues pointing to their 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦-making desires were hiding in plain sight all along, in their spicy exchanges on the social media platform.
DailyMail.com has traced the trail of their flirtatious interactions back to May 2023,- around the tie they first met, with the pair cracking risqué jokes and engaging in conversations laced with innuendo ever since.
Without concern for the public eye, they’ve bantered about ‘d**k pics’, ‘pulling out’, having 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren, and sent each other flirty emojis.
Musk even wished her a happy 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡day last July and a month earlier was among the users to send her a lengthy list of suggestions when she requested audiobook recommendations from her followers.
Florida-𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 and Colorado-raised 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.
Months of flirty public exchanges on X raised suspicions that conservative influencer and mom Ashley St. Clair, 26, was Musk’s new love interest. Her statement on Friday confirmed those rumors
Musk, 53, who already has at least 12 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren by three different women, has made a number of comments laced with innuendo to St. Clair on social media
But when X sleuths and eagle-eyed followers started to notice that the Republican activist had been showing up at the same places and events as the tech billionaire, they began to suspect she’s his latest love interest.
Until this week, those close to her were working hard to throw the public off the scent. A source close with St. Clair laughed off the idea, telling DailyMail.com it was ‘ridiculous’.
But then on Friday night, the influencer decided to spill the tea on social media.
‘Five months ago, I welcomed a new 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦 into the world. Elon Musk is the father,’ she wrote.
‘I have not previously disclosed this to protect our 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥’s privacy and safety, but in recent days it has become clear that tabloid media intends to do so, regardless of the harm it will cause.
‘I intend to allow our 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥 to grow in a normal and safe environment. For that reason, I ask that the media honor our 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥’s privacy, and refrain from invasive reporting.’
DailyMail.com had recently been investigating St. Clair’s relationship with Musk, but did not have plans to identify the 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦.
Musk did not respond to DailyMail.com’s comment request.
Musk and his alleged MAGA 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦 momma St. Clair were photographed together at Twitter’s headquarters in May 2023, DailyMail.com can reveal
St. Clair has gradually made her way into Musk’s circle within the Republican Party, as she has been seen rubbing elbows with other MAGA figures and Trump associates, including Lara Trump (left)
St. Clair had already set rumors running with her public flirty tweets with Elon, and it is common knowledge that the billionaire has penchant for new partners.
Musk has at least 12 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren with three women: Justine Wilson, Claire Elise Boucher AKA Grimes, and Shivon Zilis. His list of rumored past girlfriends is extensive.
Until Friday, neither Musk nor St. Clair had publicly acknowledged spending time together. But they have been seen in the same Florida cities and events at the same time.
And they certainly have taken a keen interest in each other on social media.
Among her more flirtatious tweets with Musk is an exchange about unprotected 𝓈ℯ𝓍 – which is now being seen in a whole new light.
St. Clair tweeted about Russia-funded mercenaries deciding to ‘pull back’ from a march on Moscow on June 24, 2023.
Musk replied: ‘The ‘pull out’ method,’ then added, ‘Speaking personally, I obviously prefer the pull in method …’
St. Clair responded with a meme showing a ‘doge’ dog hitting Musk over the head with a baseball bat, with the words ‘bonk’ and ‘Go to horny jail’.
On July 31 last year, Musk tweeted ‘Happy 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡day!’ to her, and she responded ‘Thank you’ with a heart emoji.
In one exchange in response to St. Clair’s post about Russian forces ‘pulling back’ in June 2023, Musk replied with a 𝓈ℯ𝓍ually-charged joke
He continued saying he prefers ‘the pull in method’ to which St. Clair replied with a meme telling him to ‘go to horny jail’
Weeks later the two joked about ‘d**k pic bots’ in another flirty public exchange in July 2023
In March 2024, she joked with the SpaceX billionaire about him making her host of a ‘space podcast in space’
St. Clair tweeted at Musk on July 9, 2023 highlighting his mention that X has a ‘dick pic bot’ that roots out porn on the platform.
When she asked her followers for ‘new audiobook suggestions’ on June 30 last year, Musk responded 20 minutes later with 11 titles.
He has tweeted crying-laughing emojis to her risqué jokes, discussed with her the merits of homeschooling and their shared opposition to contraceptive pills, and he told her ‘this is the absolute *best* time in history to have kids!’
And she joked with the SpaceX billionaire about him making her host of a ‘space podcast in space’.
Offline, the social media star has been gradually making her way into his circle within the Republican Party.
More recently, a dyed blonde St. Clair shared an old clip on X of her appearance on Fox News when she was interviewed by the now Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. ‘In my defense this was way funnier when the guy I was saying it to wasn’t the united states secretary of defense (sic),’ she wrote
In addition to Musk, St. Clair appears to be acquainted with other members of Trump’s cabinet including FBI director nominee Kash Patel, 44, with whom she was seen posing at Mar-a-Lago in December
On November 12 last year after Musk’s buddy, entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, was announced to lead the new Department of Government Efficiency alongside Elon, St. Clair posted three pictures of herself with him.
‘Godspeed my friend!’ she wrote, showing herself smiling and posing beside Ramaswamy in three different locations – one which appears to be the Texas border town of Eagle Pass, where he met with law enforcement officials to discuss immigration in October 2023.
After months of messaging each other on X, social media posts suggest Musk and St. Clair both happened to visit Miami on the same weekend in early December 2023, and Palm Beach in February 2024.
In July, Musk wished St. Clair a happy 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡day to which she replied with a thank you and heart emoji. Another user then replied to the exchanging suggesting St. Clair ‘have one of Musk’s kids’
Musk replied to St. Clair’s X post in November 2023 saying ‘this is the absolute *best* time in history to have kids!’
He was among the top users to reply when she asked followers for new audio book suggestions last June
Their flirty online banter appears to have begun in May 2023
St. Clair shared photos of herself at Mar-a-Lago with congressman Matt Gaetz’s wife Ginger Luckey and GOP spokeswoman Elizabeth Pipko, at Donald Trump’s November 5 election night party at Mar-a-Lago, where Musk also spent the evening.
She has previously appeared on Fox News opposite Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and has been photographed with Trump’s FBI Director pick Kash Patel.
Photos from as early as 2020 suggest St. Clair was spending time boating with Republican operative Evi Kokalari, who at the time frequented Mar-a-Lago and had meetings with Eric Trump; ex-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; Ilir Meta, then the president of Albania; and Yuri Kim, former U.S. ambassador to Albania.
After months of messaging each other on X, social media posts suggest Musk and St. Clair both happened to visit Miami on the same weekend in early December 2023, and Palm Beach in February 2024.
Given her alleged 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 month of around September 2024, it is possible either the Miami or Palm Beach trips could have been the fateful rendezvous that led to Musk’s alleged 13th 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥.
However, St. Clair’s spokesman Brian Glicklich has denied she was in Miami with Musk in December 2023.
‘Ashley was, in fact, in South Florida, for a holiday party with her employer that was not even in Miami,’ Glicklich said in a statement to DailyMail.com.
In recent years St. Clair has been beefing up her conservative credentials, including taking on ‘woke’ 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren’s literature.
In 2021 she authored Elephants Are Not Birds, a kids book she said is an ‘unapologetic rebuke of transgender acceptance’.
The book’s protagonist, an elephant named Kevin, ‘learns that even though he can sing, he is not a bird, even if Culture insists that he is,’ the publisher Brave Books says on its website.
In July 2021 she told the New York Post: ‘You get special attention now in the classroom if you say, ‘Hey my name is not Billy, it’s Amanda.’
‘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.’
In November St. Clair congratulated Musk’s buddy, Vivek Ramaswamy in an X post, sharing photos of them together, after he was announced to lead the new Department of Government Efficiency alongside Elon
That same month, St. Clair and Musk exchanged posts publicly discussing the merits of homeschooling
In February the two also shared their opposition to contraceptive pills
St. Clair was referring to her three-year-old, who she appears to have had with New York chiropractor Johnny Alexander, 37.
Alexander, who runs a clinic in Manhattan, describes himself as a ‘father’ on social media and had posted loving pictures with St. Clair in August and September 2020 with the captions, ‘Team Deplorable’ and ‘Best part of my week’.
He has not been pictured with her since then. A source close to the couple told DailyMail.com they are separated but co-parenting.
Elephants Are Not Birds is described by its publisher as ‘a Christian, Conservative 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren’s book’, but St. Clair has called herself ‘Jewish’ on several occasions – though she may be referring to ethnicity rather than religious affiliation.
In 2019 St. Clair gained prominence as a brand ambassador for right-wing youth organization Turning Point USA, creating successful campaign adverts and speaking at campus events.
But the organization dropped her after she was photographed at a dinner with alleged white nationalists and anti-Semitic content creators in September that year.
The gathering included white nationalist podcaster Nicholas Fuentes who has used anti-Jewish slurs; Andrew Anglin, founder of neo-Nazi site the Daily Stormer, as well as Paul Nehlen who has ranted on X against perceived conspiracies by ‘Jewish media’, and infamous far-right trickster Jacob Wohl.
St. Clair defended her attendance, the Washington Examiner reported in 2019, saying: ‘The focus of the dinner was civility. I’m not accountable for anything anyone else posts online’.
St. Clair has gradually made her way into Musk’s circle within the Republican Party, as she has been seen rubbing elbows with other MAGA figures and Trump associates, including Lara Trump (left)
She also appears to be friendly with Republican congressman Matt Gaetz and his wife Ginger Luckey
Social media posts suggest Musk and St. Clair both happened to be in the same places on multiple occasions. In November St. Clair shared photos of herself at Mar-a-Lago with Gaetz’s wife Ginger (far left) and GOP spokeswoman Elizabeth Pipko (center) at Donald Trump’s election night party, where Musk also spent the evening
TPUSA later released a statement announcing it had cut ties with St. Clair and denouncing white nationalism.
‘Ashley is no longer one of our thousands of volunteer activists and ambassadors,’ the organization said at the time.
‘Charlie [Kirk] and TPUSA have repeatedly and publicly denounced white nationalism as abhorrent and un-American and will continue to do so.’
A source close to St. Clair said that behind closed doors, the organization brought her back into the fold and had her working on several successful projects.
Last month she was seen attending a TPUSA gala last month where she shared photos posing with co-founder Charlie Kirk.
‘Another incredible Turning Point gala. Very proud of Charlie Kirk, Tyler Bowyer, and the entire Turning Point team,’ she wrote in a December 8 post.
‘They came in and gave the GOP ground game apparatus as much needed facelift & played a massive role in in delivering Donald J. Trump for America!’
The conservative media star had also riled up some of her followers when she appeared to disavow Trump’s key policies – including the border wall – on a YouTube talk show in 2019.
In 2019 St. Clair gained prominence as a brand ambassador for right-wing youth organization Turning Point USA but was dropped after she was pictured (above) with alleged white nationalists and anti-Semitic content creators, including Nick Fuentes (far left)
St. Clair however still appears to have a friendly relationship with TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk, with whom she was seen posing at the organization’s gala in December
In 2012 St. Clair authored Elephants Are Not Birds, a kids book she said is an ‘unapologetic rebuke of transgender acceptance’
‘In Colorado, the biggest issue with Republican voters is immigration. Do you know how many illegals we have here? Like f***in’ 12.
‘That’s the top issue among Republicans. And the number one thing among Democrats is education. Things that actually matter,’ St. Clair said.
‘They are just screwing themselves over with this ‘build a wall and that’s all we care about.’
The outrage among her right-wing followers was compounded when an old video emerged of her saying ‘I’m not a conservative’.
The upset among right-wing online groups prompted St. Clair to post on X saying ‘without reservation that we need to Build the Wall, stop *all* illegal immigration, restore our national sovereignty […] I wanted to clarify any comments I’ve made that cast doubt on these principles.’
As online rumors about St. Clair and Musk’s relationship began to intensify, the mother-of-two told her followers on January 5 she was going to be ‘taking a break from X for a while’.
The source close to her said she had stepped back from social media to ‘focus on raising her son’.
But the pull of Musk’s platform proved too alluring, and on January 20 she was back posting again – including about the lightning progress of the X billionaire’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
But the pull of his platform proved too alluring, and on January 20 she was back tweeting again – including about the progress of Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Instead, he tweeted a laughing emoji in response to one of his followers, who referred to him fathering a 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥 as a ‘side quest’.
