Ashley St. Clair is tired of being asked the same questions about Elon Musk. "People treat me like I'm some Elon psychoanalyst," she said during a September visit to The New York Times. The former conservative influencer gave birth to one of Musk's children in 2024. This fall she appears in "Musk," Alex Gibney's nearly four-hour documentary about the world's first trillionaire, where she focuses on what she sees as a deeper problem: "We've equated capital with morality."
After TMZ reported that St. Clair rejected a $40 million N.D.A., Musk responded on X, writing, "She was never offered that and has a history of making false claims." He also criticized Gibney's documentary, calling it a "hit list of people who either have an axe to grind or don't even know me." Gibney, the Oscar-winning filmmaker, said St. Clair had a front-row seat during the 2024 campaign and told him things he didn't know about Musk's motivations.
St. Clair said she met Musk in 2023, when she was a single mother working at The Babylon Bee and posting MAGA talking points on Twitter. Musk followed her and messaged her, and soon she was on his plane to Providence, R.I. She described the relationship as emotionally intimate, though she said there was also a degree of idolization of Musk as a free speech champion. In January 2024, during a vacation in St. Barts, Musk suggested they have a child together, a idea she said appealed to her because she wanted more children and financial security.
St. Clair said that watching the film was both validating and frightening, because the accounts of Musk from her, Justine Wilson, Sam Harris and Geoffrey Hinton line up closely. She said that when people with no connection to one another describe the same pattern, it points to the truth.
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