Ashley St. Clair offloaded her Tesla amid her contentious custody battle with Elon Musk.
The 26-year-old author sold her $100,000 car over the weekend to “make up” for Musk — who is the CEO of the automotive company — allegedly slashing their son’s child support.
Paparazzi caught up with St. Clair as she handed over the keys of her black Model S to a representative for an auto sales company.
When asked why she chose to sell the swanky vehicle, St. Clair told paparazzi she needed to “make up for the 60 percent cut that Elon made to our son’s child support.”
The influencer said she didn’t know why the richest man in the world would do such a thing. When asked if she believes it was a “vindictive” move, St. Clair replied, “Well, that’s his modus operandi, when women speak out.”
Page Six has reached out to Musk, 53, for comment.
Last month, St. Clair claimed that the businessman fathered her 6-month-old son.
She later alleged that he was an absentee father as they duked it out over paternity. She claims she has not spoken to the tech billionaire since Feb. 13 — one day before she announced the shocking news.
St. Clair ended the interaction by taking a jab at the current anti-Tesla rhetoric amid growing frustrations about Musk’s role in the United States government.
“You can check the stocks, I’m not the only one who is cleaning up after his messes,” she joked.
The comments came less than two weeks after St. Clair alleged that Musk slashed her child support after she sued him for sole legal custody.
“Elon Musk has financially retaliated against his own child and reduced his financial support substantially and unilaterally,” her legal team told People at the time.
“He did this after Ashley was forced to bring this matter to court, when he refused to respond to her many private attempts to resolve this matter without publicity.”
They also called out the entrepreneur for filing “an emergency application to gag Ashley and prevent her from communicating about his actions,” which a judge allegedly denied.
“Ashley is vigorously opposing this application in order to preserve her right to speak-out. All while Mr. Musk fashions himself a first amendment warrior and freely communicates via his owned social media platform,” they claimed.
“Given that Mr. Musk is dedicated to transparency in government, it would be helpful if he administered his own life by the same principles.”
St. Clair previously claimed that Musk was not present for the birth of their son, whose name has not been revealed and is referred to by his initials, “R.S.C.”
The conservative influencer alleged that Musk “has met him only three times and has had no involvement in his care and upbringing.”
Although she called for the tech founder to “publicly acknowledge” their son, he has yet to address the situation.
However, he notably responded to other user’s tweets slamming St. Clair.
St. Clair allegedly started seeing Musk around May 2023. She claims they conceived their son in early January 2024 while they were on vacation.
In a filing obtained by Page Six, St. Clair included alleged screenshot messages between herself and Musk.
In one alleged exchange, the tech founder said he was looking forward to seeing her and the baby. He also told her he wanted “to knock [her] up again” in a November 2024 message.
If Musk is the father of St. Clair’s child, that would make him the father of 14 children.
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