The alleged new mother, Ashley St Clair, 26, is a conservative firebrand who has previously courted controversy by fraternizing with the far right.

She announced the baby in a post on the evening of Valentine’s day.

‘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.’

Soon after the announcement, Musk penned a cryptic post to X in reply to a fan who said making ‘another baby’ was yet another of Musk’s ‘side quests’. Musk reacted with crying laughing emoji.

DailyMail.com can reveal that St Clair moved about a year ago into a swanky Manhattan apartment near City Hall, costing an estimated $12,000 to $15,000 per month.

Elon Musk has fathered a thirteenth child with 26-year-old conservative influencer, she announced on his social media site X on Friday night. The alleged new mother, Ashley St Clair (pictured right), 26, is a conservative firebrand who has previously courted controversy by fraternizing with the far right.

Elon Musk has fathered a thirteenth child with 26-year-old conservative influencer, she announced on his social media site X on Friday night. The alleged new mother, Ashley St Clair (pictured right), 26, is a conservative firebrand who has previously courted controversy by fraternizing with the far right

Musk has at least 12 other children with three women: Justine Wilson, Claire Elise Boucher AKA Grimes, and Shivon Zilis. His list of rumored past girlfriends is extensive.

Musk has at least 12 other children with three women: Justine Wilson, Claire Elise Boucher AKA Grimes, and Shivon Zilis. His list of rumored past girlfriends is extensive

One resident of the exclusive condo tower, which has been home to VIPs and celebrities, said St Clair was the first person he knew to get a Tesla Cybertruck – and he wondered how the young influencer afforded it.

Neighbors also said that St Clair was apparently living as a single mom, but has a full-time nanny looking after her two children: Musk’s alleged baby and a toddler from her previous relationship.

Musk has at least 12 other children with three women: Justine Wilson, Claire Elise Boucher AKA Grimes, and Shivon Zilis. His list of rumored past girlfriends is extensive.

St Clair and the billionaire had already set tongues wagging over her public flirtation with the world’s richest man, 53, on his social media site, X.

They had been messaging each other in public since May 2023 with risqué jokes about ‘dick pics’, innuendo-laden references to ‘pulling out’, ‘how babies are made’ and ‘horny jail’.

He wished her happy birthday last July, she sent him heart emojis, he sent her a lengthy list of book suggestions and told her ‘this is the absolute *best* time in history to have kids!’

Florida born, 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 identity, and has faced criticism for hanging out with alleged white supremacists.

Friends of the conservative influencer knew something big was happening in their friend’s life when she allegedly asked them to sign NDAs, as rumors of her relationship with Musk began to spread.

St Clair announced the baby in a post on the evening of Valentine¿s day.

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Elon Musk and his first wife Justine Wilson sadly lost their first child, a son named Nevada Alexander, when he died of sudden infant death syndrome in 2002

Grimes claimed the ordeal almost left her ‘bankrupt’ and unable to make new music.

Musk has a further three children with one of his Neuralink employees Shivon Zilis.

Shortly before Grimes welcomed their daughter Exa, Zilis, 39, gave birth to a set of twins named Strider and Azure in June 2021.

The news was made public months later in court documents published by Insider, which revealed that Musk and Zilis asked a Texas county court to amend their children’s names to ‘have their father’s last name and contain their mother’s last name as part of their middle name.’

The following day, Musk addressed the birth of his twins on X, formerly Twitter, and said that he was doing his ‘best to help the underpopulation crisis.’

‘A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far,’ he posted. ‘Mark my words, they are sadly true.’

Zilis, who was born in Ontario, Canada, met Musk through OpenAI, the artificial-intelligence research-and-deployment nonprofit Musk cofounded in 2015, Insider reported.

She studied economics and philosophy at Yale where she also played goalie on the women’s ice-hockey team.

It was reported that Zilis said Musk ‘really wants smart people to have kids’, and claimed that he sought to be her sperm donor so that the ‘kids would be genetically his.’

In June 2024, the tech CEO confirmed to Page Six that he and Zilis had welcomed their third child together earlier in the year, but he did not share the name or sex of the baby.

‘As for “secretly fathered,” that is also false,’ he told the outlet in a statement. ‘All our friends and family know. Failure to issue a press release, which would be bizarre, does not mean “secret.”‘

In July 2022, Musk also told the publication: ‘Bravo to big families,’ and said that he wants ‘as many [kids] as I am able to spend time with and be a good father.’

Last October, reports emerged that said Zilis had moved into a sprawling $35 million compound in Austin, Texas, that the billionaire had purchased with the intention of his 11 children all living together.