Even as Elon Musk is changing the world through business and politics, his brood continues to grow bigger.
Elon Musk has had a child with political commentator Ashley St. Clair. The announcement was made by Ashley St. Clair on X. This makes the child the 13th of Musk’s known children.
“Five months ago, I welcomed a new baby into the world,” Ashley St. Clair wrote on X. “Elon Musk is the father. 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,” she added.
Ashley St Clair is a political commentator and is the Director of operations at political satire site Babylon Bee. Babylon Bee had been banned on X when it was under its old administration. Elon Musk, though, was a fan of the site, and even appeared on a podcast with its writers. He also reinstated the Bablon Bee’s X account when he took over the platform. Since its reinstatement, Babylon Bee has gained in prominence, and largely upstaged the Onion as top satire website in the US.
And with Musk now having a child with a member of the Babylon Bee, it takes the number of his known children up to 13. Musk had had a boy with his first wife Justine Wilson in 2002, but the infant passed away at 10 weeks old. Musk then had a pair of twins with Justine Wilson in 2004, and later followed it up with triplets with Wilson in 2006. Musk then divorced Wilson, married actress Talulah Riley twice, and briefly dated Amber Heard. He then began dating musician Grimes, had two children with her. Musk then had twins with Shivon Zelis, a senior executive at Neuralink, a company that he’d founded. In 2023, Musk had had another child with Grimes, whom he’d named Techno Mechanicus. Last year, it was revealed that Musk has had another child with Shivon Zilis.
And Musk seems to be putting his money, amongst other things, where his mouth is. He has been repeatedly warning about declining birth rates, and has said that population collapse is the greatest threat facing humanity today. He’s repeatedly urged people to have more children, and has made no bones about the fact that his own brood is part of that effort. “Doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis. A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far,” he’d tweeted after the birth of his 9th child.
Musk, of course, has been looking to save humanity in other ways. He’s helping prevent climate change by building clean cars through Tesla, and is looking to make humanity multiplanetary through SpaceX in the event earth goes through a cataclysmic event. And after having personally fathered 13 children, Musk seems to be just as enthusiastically solving the underpopulation problem as well.