Elon Musk is facing a new paternity claim from Ashley St. Clair, a right-wing influencer who claims the Tesla mogul fathered her five-month-old son. St. Clair, who has over 1 million followers on X, shared a series of posts revealing that she is Jewish and that her child is also Jewish under the principle of matrilineal descent.
The claim comes amid controversy surrounding Musk’s history with white supremacists and antisemitism. While Musk has met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and visited Auschwitz, he has also regularly consorted online with white nationalists and made anti-Semitic remarks in the past.
St. Clair’s revelation about her Jewish identity came after the October 7 attacks on Israel. She had previously faced backlash for attending a dinner with Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and was fired from a conservative youth organization.
Musk has neither confirmed nor denied paternity, but St. Clair claims that Musk paid her rent during their relationship and demanded that she keep the pregnancy a secret. The Forward obtained text messages between St. Clair and Musk’s manager, Jared Birchall, which show her agreeing to remove Musk’s name from her son’s birth certificate.
This would be Musk’s fourth acknowledged child with different women, but it would also make St. Clair the first Jewish woman he has fathered children with.
Source: https://forward.com/fast-forward/697480/does-elon-musk-have-a-jewish-child