Tech billionaire Elon Musk has another project beyond managing numerous companies and advising President Donald Trump.
The Wall Street Journal published an in-depth report on Musk’s “baby mission” on Tuesday, reporting that the tech billionaire “has had at least 14 children with four women, including the pop musician Grimes and Shivon Zilis, an executive at his brain computer company Neuralink.”
The report said that numerous sources close to Musk believe that the actual number of Musk’s children is “much higher than publicly known.”
Musk, the richest man in the world, is often spotted with one of his kids on his shoulders around the White House and Mar-a-Lago. However, his other children are reportedly kept out of the public eye through non-disclosure agreements and financial deals he’s made with their mothers, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Elon Musk juggles more than a dozen children and ‘harem drama’ along with running his companies and advising Trump. He recently took a paternity test in a battle with one woman over money and privacy. https://t.co/UE3v3t0boI
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) April 16, 2025
The Journal reported that Ashley St. Clair, a right-wing social-media influencer, has been negotiating terms about her and Musk’s child with Jared Birchall, Musk’s fixer. She was offered $15 million and $100,000 a month in support “in exchange for her silence about the child, whom they named Romulus,” according to the report.
St. Clair did not sign the agreement shortly after her child was born because it made her feel like her son was “illegitimate,” according to The Journal. Her battle with Musk is working itself through the New York Supreme Court, which ordered that Musk take a paternity test.
She also told the Journal that Musk has lowered his financial offer to her and has slashed his child support payments since she went public about her story in February.
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Musk refers to his offspring as a “legion,” a reference to the ancient military units that could contain thousands of soldiers and were key to extending the reach of the Roman Empire.
During St. Clair’s pregnancy, Musk suggested that they bring in other women to have even more of their children faster. “To reach legion-level before the apocalypse,” he said to St. Clair in a text message viewed by The Wall Street Journal, “we will need to use surrogates.”
He has recruited potential mothers on his social-media platform X, according to some of the people.
Musk has used his wealth to buy the silence of some women who have his kids, according to St. Clair as well as other people, text messages and documents reviewed by the Journal.
Nondisclosure clauses are part of some of the payment agreements. If the mothers push back or seek outside counsel, Musk’s advisers, including Birchall, have threatened financial retribution, according to the documents and people.
Musk has long pushed for people to have more children, saying that “civilization is going to crumble” if people don’t start having more children.
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