Elon Musk claims he has forked out at least $2.5 million in payments to Ashley St Clair but maintains he does not know if he is the father of her 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥.

It comes after DailyMail.com spoke to St. Clair, who sold her $100,000 Model S Tesla, outside her Manhattan apartment on Saturday.

DOGE chief Musk – who is currently entangled in a custody lawsuit with St. Clair – addressed the rumors on X, the social media platform he owns, on Monday.

St. Clair went public in a bombshell post on Musk’s social media site X last month, sensationally revealing the Tesla and SpaceX owner to be the father of her 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦 boy, 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 in September last year.

She says Musk ‘slid into my DMs’ in May 2023, and that the 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥, who has been named publicly only by his initials ‘R.S.C.’, was conceived early January 2024 on a trip to the island of Saint Barthélemy in the Caribbean.

Musk, 53, has not publicly acknowledged the 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥 as his own, but has responded with cryptic emojis to posts on X about St. Clair’s claims.

St. Clair filed a paternity and a custody lawsuit in a New York court on February 21, claiming Musk told her to keep the 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦 secret, then ghosted her and their son in the middle of 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥 support negotiations, forcing her to go public and take legal action.

‘When this thing went into court for custody and paternity, he cut the support payments way back. He cut it by more than half.

Musk’s lawyers successfully petitioned the New York judge to seal the case on March 14, keeping its details secret and limiting St. Clair’s ability to speak out.