Non-disclosures, surrogates and more… Inside Elon Musk’s ‘plan’ to have a ‘legion of babies’

He is Trump’s ‘First Buddy’, the world’s richest man and the one running the new Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), which has been slashing staff and billions of dollars from the government.

But beyond that, Elon Musk is also a father — a dad to multiple children which he has had with four different women. And now, a report by the Wall Street Journal chronicles the great lengths that Musk takes to expand his lineage. The report is largely dependent on Ashley St Clair, a 26-year-old conservative influencer who gave birth to Musk’s 13th child in September. She reveals how the world’s richest man uses his influence, wealth, and platform X to recruit women and propose surrogacy as a way to rapidly build a “legion” of children

Non-disclosures and leveraging child support

St Clair, who is now in a paternity battle with Musk, in the Wall Street Journal narrates her baby battle with the billionaire and how he tried to convince her about having more of his children. She told the media outlet that once she became pregnant by him, she stayed indoors to avoid the public. At this point of time, St Clair states that Musk instructed his “personal manager” and “business manager”, Jared Birchall, to pay her $2 million in expenses.

When she was in hospital last September, giving birth, she was asked by Birchall to leave Musk’s name off the birth certificate. Soon after she complied with the request, she was pushed to sign documents keeping the father of the baby and details regarding her relationship with Musk secret in return for financial support. The offer was a one-time fee of $15 million for a home and living expenses, plus an additional $100,000 a month until the baby turned 21.

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According to the report, he wanted to keep his name away as a way to protect the baby. That’s because he was “#2 after Trump for assassination”.

She adds that Musk uses money as a way to silence women like her. She states that after she went public with the relationship in February, the support she received from the billionaire reduced to $40,000 a month — and then dropped to $20,000.

The American influencer adds that she had been warned by Birchall not to go public and that if women, who had been approached by Musk in the past to have his babies, sought any legal recourse or outside aid would be threatened financially.

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St Clair’s claims can be backed up by Musk’s baby drama with his former partner, pop musician Claire Boucher, who goes by the name, Grimes. Musk has three children with her. In early February, she begged Musk for help on X as she claimed that he refused to engage with her privately.

Recruiting women to mother his children

Musk, a pro-natalist, has often advocated for the importance of having children. Last summer, he wrote on X, “It should be considered a national emergency to have kids”.

And it seems that Musk is very serious about having more children; he has 14 of them — six in total with his first wife Justine Wilson, but one of them died; three with Boucher; four more with Shivon Zilis, an executive at his brain computer company Neuralink, and one with St Clair.

However, according to sources close to him, Musk may have many more children. In fact, when Vivian Wilson, one of Musk’s older children from his first wife, Justine Musk, was asked about her relations with her half-siblings in a Teen Vogue interview, she said, “I will say I do not actually know how many siblings I have, if you include half-siblings. That’s just a fun fact. It’s really good for two truths and a lie.”

To expand his family, Musk is reported to even have sent unsolicited direct messages to women on X, often in right-wing political circles, offering them to have his babies. One such instance is that of crypto influencer Tiffany Fong. The Wall Street Journal reports that Musk, who had started following her on X after the downfall of Sam Bankman-Fried, sent her a direct message asking if she was interested in having his child.

However, Fong rejected his proposal. But it didn’t stop there. Following Fong sharing messages that Musk sent her, he stopped following her on X and this led to a fall in her engagement and her earnings declined.

Musk has also reportedly texted St Clair about a Japanese official asking him to donate sperm to an unnamed woman. “No romance or anything, just sperm,” the text read. According to St. Clair, Musk followed through on the transaction, suggesting the number of kids Musk has actually fathered is even higher than what’s known.

St Clair has also revealed one text between herself and Musk while she was pregnant. Musk suggested, “To reach legion-level before the apocalypse, we will need to use surrogates.”

Musk’s pro-baby stance

All of this fits in with Musk’s support for pro-natalism. He has repeatedly said that he wants smart people to have more children. He has warned that “civilisation is going to crumble” if people don’t start having more children.

In fact, according to the Wall Street Journal, Musk has even spoken of this with Martin Varsavsky, who has founded a large chain of in vitro fertilisation clinics in the US. “Without babies there’s no future, every problem becomes secondary to the problem of not having people on the planet,” said Varsavsky. “Elon believes that a country is not the geography, a country is the people.”

In a previous interview with Fox News, Musk said that falling birth rates keep him up at night. Furthermore, at an investment conference in Saudi Arabia last year, he told the audience, “I think for most countries, they should view the birthrate as the single biggest problem they need to solve. If you don’t make new humans, there’s no humanity, and all the policies in the world don’t matter.”

Notably, while Musk hasn’t responded to the Wall Street Journal report directly, he has posted on X, “TMZ » WSJ.”

With inputs from agencies