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Steve Bannon's right-hand woman is considered the favorite to add to archenemy Elon Musk's 'kid legion.'
Conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair told all about the deal she made to give birth to one of Musk's children, according to a bombshell report on the Wall Street Journal which the SpaceX CEO has slammed.
That included how Musk pursued her and other women for impregnation, asked her and their son to join his 'kid legion' on a compound in Texas and eventually offered her tens of millions to keep quiet.
Now, The Spectator magazine is asking the question on the minds of many: Who is Elon going to proposition next?
The piece's author suggests the favorite would be 24-year-old Natalie Winters, the executive editor of Steve Bannon's War Room podcast who has been labeled by the outlet 'Washington's most-eligible bachelorette'.
The writer notices a pattern between how Musk interacts with Winters and how he has with other conservative influencers in the past, like crypto journalist Tiffany Fong.
Elon 'regularly pops up in her replies' and Winters - who was slammed and denied membership in the National Press Club over her 'inappropriate' outfits - has been photographed in a DOGE cap at the White House.
Winters wonders: 'Maybe he just shares my stories because they're good?'
However, she does still side with her boss over Musk in their feud over the H-1B immigration visas.
She added, 'No H-1Bs,' seemingly taking her boss's side in the feud that saw Bannon and Musk hash it out on X.
Other candidates humorously suggested include Spectator columnist Bridget Phetasy and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni - who Musk has been photographed appearing smitten with - as well as the AI chatbot Grok.
St. Clair, 26, revealed that she'd given birth to Musk's child in early February, the 14th of his offspring that is publicly known. She revealed Tuesday that the baby, a boy, is named Romulus.
Musk has never publicly admitted the child is his and the pair are currently locked in a legal battle that involved the 'First Buddy' and Tesla CEO taking the test to prove he's the father.
spoke to St. Clair in March about the financial difficulties she was facing during her tussle in court with Musk, even going as far as selling her Tesla.
St. Clair then revealed Musk - who claimed he's provided her at least $2.5 million to date in March - offered her $15 million and $100,000 a month to not publicly disclose that he is the father of the child until he turns 21.
Jared Birchall, Musk's fixer, told St. Clair that this is similar to what Musk has agreed with the other mothers of his children, who include pop star Grimes and Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis.
Musk, within hours, was bashing the Journal - touting it as worse than TMZ.
'TMZ >> WSJ,' the billionaire wrote.
It wasn't his first time panning the paper, which he branded as 'trash' back in January. The barb came in direct response to a separate report surrounding his alleged pervasive drug use and concerns it was causing his companies' directors.
The Wednesday report alleged the billionaire is building a massive brood ahead of a prospective population collapse - a clandestine campaign now creating 'harem drama'.
On paper, Musk has fathered at least 14 children by four women - but the Journal report suggests the true number is much higher.
Armed with a paternity test said to be '99.9999 percent' accurate, St. Clair claimed Musk allegedly offered her $15million and $100,000 a month to not disclose he is the father of her child - an arrangement she says is in place with several other women.
She said Musk strategically recruits 'candidates' like her through X - before hitting them with NDAs.
'The Tactics Elon Musk Uses to Manage His ‘Legion’ of Babies - and Their Mothers,' the WSJ piece's headline blasted, bolstered by a portrait style photo of St. Clair and her son, Romulus.
'The world’s richest man juggles more than a dozen children and ‘harem drama’ along with running his companies and advising Trump,' a subhead insisted as well.
'[Musk] recently took a paternity test in a battle with one woman over money and privacy.'
The report them jumps directly into St. Clair's perspective, and her efforts to get Musk, 53, to take a paternity test before giving birth.
That put her into contact with Musk's fixer, Jared Birchall, whom fielded her concerns during a two-hour phone call that took place in December, according to the Journal.
'I don’t want my son to feel like he’s a secret,' St. Clair told Birchall at the time
Birchall, Musk's longtime fixer, told the 26-year-old how his boss was a 'very big-hearted, kind and generous person,' but that her going 'the legal route', from his experience, 'always, always leads to a worse outcome for that woman'.
She went on to give birth the following February, before which Musk - whom helped name the child after some reservations as to whether it was actually his - reportedly offered her the $15 million and $100,000-a-month.
She nearly accepted, after being told the stipend was similar to what Musk has agreed with the known mothers of his children, such as the popular musician Grimes and Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis.
The article includes tidbits like Musk demanding she deliver the baby via a caesarian section - based on the belief that doing so allows for a baby to have a larger brain.
He also required he not undergo a circumcision. St. Clair is Jewish and wanted a natural birth so she rejected both, the Journal reported.
St. Clair did comply, however, with the request of leaving Musk's name off of Romulus' birth certificate - which Birchall made while she was inducing labor.
She did, however, prepare by hiring an attorney - a move that reportedly went against Birchall's wishes.
Birchall then demanded St. Clair sign papers that would keep Musk's parentage a secret in exchange for the aforementioned pay - and agreement that reportedly prevented her from ever saying anything negative about Musk.
The alleged document, however, did not stipulate the same for him about her, and Musk even tried to sway her decision by saying he was under threat of assassination due to his support of a now president Trump.
She refused to sign, allowing her the ability to speak out.
She recalled how she met Musk in spring 2023 when he reached out vie the website he bought for $44billion the year before to invited her to visit its offices then in San Francisco.
At the time, St. Clair was the operations manager and conservative humor site The Babylon Bee.
He eventually invited her to a trip on his private plane to Rhode Island to visit one of his children at school, the Journal reported.
During and in between these meet ups, Musk spoke frequently about having children with St. Clair, even going as far to tell her to 'pick a name' after the first time they had sex, the Journal reported.
On a vacation over New Year's heading into 2024, St. Clair revealed she had been ovulating - an admission that allegedly led Musk to ask her: 'What are we waiting for?'
St. Clair said that they conceived Romulus soon after, after which Musk allegedly tried to get her to move to an Austin 'compound' to spend time with himself and an array of other women and children he is calling 'kid legion.'
She conceded she even experimented with becoming a part of the 'kid legion' during her pregnancy, arranging playdates between her son from a previous relationship and some of Musk's younger kids.
She says she has even met Musk's elusive mother Maye.
In November, she sent Musk a selfie, to which he reportedly responded: 'I want to knock you up again.'
spotted St. Clair handing over the keys to her black Model S outside her Manhattan apartment in late March.
She claimed Musk recently cut her child support by more than half, and was now selling her black Model S Tesla to make ends meet.
He addressed the rumors on X on X, before the Journal report published two days later.
'I don’t know if the child is mine or not, but am not against finding out. No court order is needed,' Musk said at the time, before detailing the amount of money he claims to have sent the conservative influencer.
'Despite not knowing for sure, I have given Ashley $2.5M and am sending her $500k/year,' he said, spurring a response from St. Clair - on that branded him '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.'
She also referenced his most recent move in court - one she framed as 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,' she wrote this week.
'It’s all about control with you, and everyone can see it.'
Musk has yet to respond directly to St. Clair on social media.
St Clair first went public with her claims in February, claiming Musk first slid into [her] DMs' in May 2023.
At the time, she only named Romulus by his initials 'R.S.C.', saying he was conceived early January 2024 on a trip to the island of Saint Barthélemy in the Caribbean.
Musk, 53, has not publicly acknowledged the child as his own - only responded with characteristic 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.
A source close to the case told that since going public, Musk 'retaliated' by slashing her payments in half 'unilaterally', leaving St. Clair struggling.
She 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.
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