“It’s all about control with you, and everyone can see it... America needs you to grow up, you petulant man-child”

Elon Musk’s complicated paternity situation has landed him in trouble again this week as a 26-year-old influencer claimed that the Tesla CEO had cut child support for their son.

Ashley St. Clair has claimed that Musk has “financially retaliated” against her and their six-month-old son. The story emerged after Laura Loomer, another conservative social media personality, shared a video of St. Clair purportedly selling her Tesla to make up for $100,000 in cuts to her child support payments from Musk.

Under the video Musk replied, claiming: “I don’t know if the child is mine or not, but am not against finding out. No court order is needed. Despite not knowing for sure, I have given Ashley $2.5M and am sending her $500k/year.”

What did Ashley St. Clair say about Elon Musk?

Within two hours, St. Clair had responded and was issuing a counter-version of Musk’s account. She said that Musk had “refused” to take part in the paternity test and took issue with a few of his claims.

“And you weren’t sending me money, you were sending support for your child that you thought was necessary… until you withdrew most of it to maintain control and punish me for disobedience,” St. Clair added. “But you’re really only punishing your son.”

“It’s ironic that your last effort in court was to try to gag me while you use a social media channel you literally own to distribute derogatory messages about me and our child to the entire world.”

“It’s all about control with you, and everyone can see it,” she continued. “America needs you to grow up, you petulant man-child.”

On February 14 St. Clair first claimed that she and Musk have a son together. Musk is now thought to be the father of 14 children in total, with four different women. Last month a legal team working on St. Clair’s behalf issued a statement saying: “Elon Musk has financially retaliated against his own child and reduced his financial support substantially and unilaterally.”

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