--- title: "In Leaked Text, Elon Musk Harangued Woman to Have as Many of His Babies as Possible" description: "Alarming new details about Elon Musk's attempts to buy the silence of the mother of yet another of his secret children are coming to light." date: "2025-04-16" modified: "2025-04-16" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/leaked-text-elon-musk-woman-many-babies" categories: - "Elon Musk" - "Future Society" - "The Industrialists" tags: - "birth rates" - "elon musk" - "humanity" --- # In Leaked Text, Elon Musk Harangued Woman to Have as Many of His Babies as Possible ![Alarming new details about Elon Musk's attempts to buy the silence of the mother of yet another of his secret children are coming to light.]() *\Image: Getty / Futurism\* Alarming new details about billionaire Elon Musk's attempts to buy the silence of the mother of yet another of his secret children are coming to light. As the [*Wall Street Journal* reports](), 26-year-old [conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair]() was offered $15 million, plus a monthly $100,000 in support, to keep her from publicizing the fact that she had birthed his child. St. Clair ultimately turned down the offer and has since been on a public crusade, suing the billionaire for custody of the kid. Before things turned sour, their relationship was anything but conventional. According to the *WSJ*, Musk told her that he wanted to bring in other women to have more of their children faster. "To reach legion-level before the apocalypse, we will need to use surrogates," he reportedly texted her. The use of the word "legion" alone demonstrates Musk's baffling obsession with having as many children as possible. The term refers to a unit of several thousand men in the ancient Roman army (so it shouldn't come as a surprise that St. Clair named her son Romulus, after the founder and first king of Rome). Musk also tried to get her to deliver the baby via caesarean section after [publicly claiming]() that vaginal births limit brain size, a [disputed theory](). He even told her she should have as many as ten babies. However, St. Clair didn't agree to play by Musk's rules, deciding against a C-section. She also notably refused to sign a gag order NDA. "I don’t want my son to feel like he’s a secret," she told Musk's longtime fixer Jared Birchall in December, as quoted by the *WSJ*. St. Clair isn't the only woman Musk has seemingly attempted to coerce into having children. According to the newspaper, he has personally [reached out via DMs to other women](), offering them to let them have his babies. Musk has also had four young children with Shivon Zilis, an executive at his brain computer interface company Neuralink. In total, he has had 14 children we know about with four different women. Sources close to Musk told the *WSJ* that the real number could be significantly higher. To Musk, it's allegedly part of an attempt to boost humanity's chances of survival. He has [argued on many occasions]() that falling birth rates are our biggest existential threat, a belief that [experts have long refuted](). But according to the billionaire, women play only an insignificant, childbearing role in that fight. "In all of history, there has never been a competitive army composed of women," he texted St. Clair while canvassing for Trump in Pennsylvania, as quoted by the *WSJ*. "Not even once." "Men are made for war," he added. "Real men, anyway." **More on the story:** *[Elon Musk Reportedly Sends DMs on Twitter Offering Women the Chance to Have His Babies]()* ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()