Ashley St. Clair Sues Elon Musk for Sole Legal Custody of Their Son (Exclusive)

Ashley St. Clair is suing Elon Musk for sole authorized custody of their toddler son.

St. Clair filed the petition for custody with the New York Supreme Court on Friday, Feb. 21. In the petition, St. Clair mentioned New York is the house state of the kid, who goes by R.S.C.

The writer, 26, alleges within the petition that Musk is the daddy of the boy, who was born in September 2024 (the precise date has been redacted within the submitting). She claims that Musk was not current at R.S.C.’s delivery and “has met him solely three (3) occasions and has had no involvement in his care and upbringing.”

Although she said that Musk is R.S.C’s father, she additionally filed a paternity petition together with the custody petition.

In the petition, she says that she and Musk started a “romantic relationship in or about May 2023,” and the 2 had intercourse in January 2024, at which era R.S.C. was conceived.

St. Clair says that Musk “acknowledged parentage of the kid in numerous written correspondences” together with a textual content message change after R.S.C.’s delivery. St. Clair says she despatched Musk a photograph of her and the new child shortly after his delivery, to which she claims Musk responded, “I stay up for seeing you and him this weekend.” She included a screenshot of the alleged change in her petition.

When discussing security considerations, she claims Musk mentioned, “If I make a mistake on safety, [R.S.C.] won’t ever know his father,” which she says is one other acknowledgment of parentage.

St. Clair says Musk finally met his son on Sep 21, 2024, and spent two hours with them, after which for one hour the subsequent day. She says the final time Musk noticed R.S.C. was November 30, 2024, for under half-hour.

Every week earlier than that assembly, she claims that Musk texted her “I want to knock you up again” on November 24, 2024. Three months later, she claims Musk texted her once more: “Well, we do have a legion of kids to make.”

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“Ashley St. Clair has filed paternity and custody petitions to protect the best interests of her child,” her representative Brian Glickich tells PEOPLE exclusively. “She has made every effort to collaborate with Mr. Musk before taking this step. She has no further comment on the contents of the petitions, which speak for themselves.”

PEOPLE has reached out to Musk’s reps and attorneys.

St. Clair has requested the court docket “situation a summons, warrant or order requiring the Respondent to indicate trigger why the Court mustn’t enter a declaration of paternity, an order of assist and such different and additional aid as could also be applicable beneath the circumstances.”

In her legal professional affirmation, St. Clair’s lawyer Karen B. Rosenthal writes: “This agency has been coping with Respondent’s lawyer and consultant, Alyssa Rower from Rower, LLC, in an try and resolve this matter privately. The regulation agency has places of work in Manhattan and Westchester, New York. However, his representatives have been nonresponsive previously to resolve the excellent points and Respondent has indicated that he now not needs to resolve problems with custody and assist amicably.”

Rosenthal defined that as a result of Musk’s function within the Trump administration, having him served on the White House wouldn’t be potential because of the excessive degree of safety there.

Musk has welcomed 13 kids with 4 ladies, counting the alleged baby with St. Clair. St. Clair’s lawsuit comes someday after Musk’s former companion and mom of three of his kids, singer-songwriter Grimes, pleaded with him on X to cease ignoring their kid’s “medical disaster.”

“Plz reply about our kid’s medical disaster,” she wrote partially on Thursday, Feb. 20. “He will not reply to texts name or emails and has skipped each assembly and our baby will endure life lengthy impairment if he does not reply asap.”

Grimes didn’t disclose particulars on the medical disaster or which baby it concerned.

Charmaine Patterson contributed to this report.