Ashley St. Clair Claims She Is Broke Amid Elon Musk Baby Battle and ‘Getting Evicted’ From $15K-a-Month Apartment

Conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair has claimed that she is “getting evicted” from her $15,000-a-month New York City apartment after being left broke amid her ongoing paternity battle with billionaire Elon Musk.

St. Clair, 31, took to X—the social media website owned by Musk—on Feb. 14 to claim that she had welcomed a child with the Tesla founder, alleging at the time that she had shared the news publicly out of fear that “the tabloid media” was going to reveal the identity of her child.

“Five months ago, I welcomed a new baby into the world,” she wrote in her Valentine’s Day post. “Elon Musk is the father. 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,” she added, while calling for the media to “honor our child’s privacy.”

She later opened up about what she claimed became a bitter battle between herself and Musk, 54, who has yet to confirm whether he is the father of her child, Romulus.

Speaking to The Wall Street Journal in April, St. Clair alleged that her decision to go public with her claims that Musk fathered her son led to a breakdown in their previously amicable relationship.

Before she posted on X, the conservative firebrand said the billionaire had offered her $15 million as well as $100,000 a month in support payments if she agreed to remain silent about the identity of Romulus’ father.

She told the outlet that she refused the offer, largely out of concern that the arrangement would make her son feel illegitimate, while also leaving her with little financial security in the event that something happened to Musk before her child turned 21.

Currently, St. Clair is residing in a $15,000-a-month New York apartment, where she lives with Romulus, as well as her firstborn child from a former relationship.

In February, the Republican influencer claimed to the New York Post that Musk had “provided her” with the unit, which is located in Manhattan’s Financial District, just a stone’s throw from city hall.

The property, which boasts three bedrooms and two bathrooms, features large windows, wood flooring, and sweeping views of the Manhattan skyline.

According to records, the apartment was last leased in April 2024 for $15,350 a month. St. Clair’s social media images indicate that she has been living there since at least May of that year—a few months before she claims she gave birth to Musk’s child.

However, the mother of two claimed to the Wall Street Journal that her financial situation had taken a serious turn for the worse in the time since she had been living in the apartment—and she accused Musk of repeatedly slashing her support payments, just as her legal fees were skyrocketing.

After she chose to speak out about the circumstances of her son’s conception and birth, she claimed Musk withdrew his offer to pay her $15 million, while the alleged $100,000-a-month support payments were cut to $40,000.

St. Clair told the outlet that she didn’t receive her “scheduled child support payment” on April 11—one day after the Journal contacted Musk for a comment about her story. On April 15, hours before the report was published, she says a reduced payment of $20,000 was sent to her.

Now, St. Clair says that her financial situation has reached a desperate level, claiming on her newly launched podcast, “Bad Advice with Ashley St. Clair,” that she is on the verge of being evicted from her New York apartment—and has only started her new show in a bid to secure some much-needed income.

“Well, after a year of unplanned career suicide, many questionable life choices and a gap in my LinkedIn profile that cannot legally be explained, I’ve decided to start a podcast,” she begins the debut episode, which she filmed inside her bedroom in the unit.

St. Clair noted that, unlike Ben Shapiro or Megyn Kelly, she does not believe her thoughts are “the greatest gift to humanity,” admitting that the launch of her podcast has been motivated by something else entirely: a need for money.

“I actually think I have the worst ideas, so consider everything out of my mouth a cautionary tale,” she went on, explaining that she was offered a sponsorship deal by “cryptocurrency-based prediction market” Polymarket.

“Also, I’m getting evicted and Polymarket offered me $10,000 to do an ad read. So with that, the roof over my head has been brought to you by Polymarket,” she joked.

However, St. Clair also used her new platform to take aim at Musk—brutally mocking his one-time protégée, Edward Coristine, a former employee of the SpaceX founder’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Coristine, 19, who was known as “Big Balls,” was viciously attacked by a mob of 10 young people after he attempted to stop a carjacking in Washington, D.C., earlier this month, local police said—however, St. Clair claimed that the injuries he sustained were nothing serious.

“The damage was on par with what I sustained after I told my toddler he couldn’t watch ‘Paw Patrol,'” she said.

“Two teenagers tried to steal a car, and instead of just letting them take it, Big Balls decided to intervene. He was with his girlfriend or lady partner—whatever the Musk orbit calls their non-committal fluid breeding vessel contenders these days.”

St. Clair then turned on the Republican party, adding: “The White House is apparently considering giving Big Balls the Presidential Medal of Freedom for getting his a– beat, which is fascinating because I was under the impression that Republicans were morally opposed to participation trophies.”

The podcast host did not mention the ongoing paternity battle with Musk during the episode, which she released on her X account.

Musk has not yet responded to her podcast claims—however, he has been active on his own X account in the hours since it was shared, even sharing one post about his ongoing claims of a global population crisis.

The billionaire tech mogul responded to a post warning that the population “isn’t collapsing” but has already “collapsed,” saying: “I’ve been warning about this since the turn of the century.”

Other than St. Clair’s baby, whose paternity has not been confirmed, Musk has welcomed 13 known children since 2002; however, his firstborn died of sudden infant death syndrome at just 10 weeks old.

He went on to father five more children with his first wife, Justine Wilson: transgender daughter Vivian, from whom he is estranged, and her twin, Griffin, both now 20; and triplets Saxon, Damian, and Kai.

The entrepreneur then welcomed three children with singer Grimes between 2020 and 2022, X Æ A-Xii, 5, who is known as “X”; Exa Dark Sideræl, 3, who is known as “Y”; and Techno Mechanicus, who was born in June 2022 and goes by “Tau.”

He shares his other four kids—twins Strider and Azure, 3, Arcadia, 1, and Seldon Lycurgus—with Shivon Zilis, an executive at his Neuralink company.