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Ashley St. Clair (born July 31, 1998) is an American former right-wing influencer, author, and political commentator. [1] [2] She became known as an outspoken proponent of right-wing ideologies including anti-transgender activism, though expressed remorse for the latter in 2026. She had a child with Elon Musk in 2024.
Ashley St. Clair was born on July 31, 1998, in Florida but was subsequently raised in Colorado. [3] She became an outspoken proponent of right-wing ideologies and made appearances on Fox News to talk about declining birth rates. [4] Among her work is included being a longtime writer for the right-wing satirical news site The Babylon Bee, and serving as a brand ambassador for Turning Point USA. She has amassed over one million followers on Twitter, and has been an endorser of President Donald Trump. [3] St. Clair also wrote the children's book Elephants Are Not Birds which she once billed as an unapologetic rebuke of transgender acceptance and which was published by the Christian conservative publishing house BRAVE Books. The book follows Kevin the Elephant as he "learns that even though he can sing, he is not a bird, even if Culture insists that he is". [3] [4] [2]
St. Clair first met Twitter owner Elon Musk on the site in 2023 and subsequently began exchanging direct messages with him. [3] [4] She began appearing at Mar-a-Lago accompanied by members of Musk's security team [5] and gave birth to Musk's son in 2024. According to St. Clair, Musk was not on the birth certificate and had been unresponsive to her subsequent messages despite previously acknowledging paternity in writing. Reportedly, Musk met him on September 21, 2024 and spent two hours with the pair of them, followed by one hour the next day. He reportedly texted St. Clair that he wanted to get her pregnant again, before meeting their son for the last time on November 30, 2024 for only 30 minutes; and continuing to text St. Clair thereafter. [3]
On Valentine's Day 2025, St. Clair publicly acknowledged the child's existence and Musk's paternity; and on March 31, she was filmed selling her Tesla, which she said was due to her having to make up for her child support payments being cut by 60% as a punishment by Musk for her "disobedience". [3] Following this, St. Clair sought full custody over their son, and had been locked in a battle with Musk since August 2025, which she described as "unplanned career suicide" and "a gap in my LinkedIn profile that can't be legally explained". St. Clair subsequently started a podcast as a way to save herself from imminent eviction. [6]
Following this, St. Clair became a target for abuse from supporters of Musk. After the rollout of Twitter's Grok image-editing feature, St. Clair reported being deluged with images of herself that had been AI-edited to show her naked and in sexual positions, including some based on photos when she was underage, and which she said both Musk and Twitter refused to do anything to counteract. [1] [7] She subsequently filed suit in New York State against xAI for punitive and compensatory damages. [8] [9]
In January 2026, St. Clair expressed strong remorse for her previous anti-trans activism, saying "I feel immense guilt for my role", in particular for pain caused to her stepdaughter, Vivian Wilson, and that she has been "trying incredibly hard privately to learn + advocate for those within the trans community that I’ve hurt", but that she didn't really know how to make amends. [10] [2] Following this apology, Musk filed for full custody of their son on the stated grounds that her apology implied she might try to "transition a one-year old boy", despite St. Clair at no point saying anything of the sort. [6] [11] [12] BRAVE Books subsequently removed her name from Elephants Are Not Birds. [13] [14]
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