Elon Musk has hit out at a newspaper after it published an extensive report claiming he is secretly trying to create a “legion” of offspring as part of his wider mission to one day occupy Mars to save civilisation.
The Wall Street Journal’s article included an in-depth account from MAGA influencer Ashley St Clair, 26, who alleges the 53-year-old tech billionaire attempted to buy her silence after she gave birth to a boy she claims was fathered by him.
Within hours of the article’s publication, Musk took aim, declaring it worse than US tabloid site TMZ.
“TMZ >> WSJ,” he wrote on social media platform X, which he also owns.
It’s not the first time that he has taken issue with the Journal, which in January he called “trash” following the publication of a separate report surrounding his alleged pervasive drug use which was said to be causing a headache for his companies' directors.
The Journal’s latest offering, which was published on Wednesday, detailed how Musk - who has at least 14 children with four women - is allegedly planning to populate the world with more babies of “high intelligence” ahead of a prospective population collapse.
Musk’s impressive brood includes four children - Strider, Azure, Arcadia, and Seldon Lycurgus - with Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis.
He also has three more - X Æ A-Xii, Exa Dark Sideræl, and Tau Techno Mechanicus - with music artist Grimes.
Plus, he has six children with Justine Wilson, whom he was married to for eight years from 2000.
Musk previously maintained that he does not know “for sure” whether is the father of St Clair’s child, but the “Probability of Paternity was 99.9999%,” according to test results that came back last Friday, the Journal reports.
St Clair alleges Musk offered her $15 million and $100,000 a month to not disclose he is the father of her child - an arrangement she claims is in place with several other women.
His “harem drama” reportedly doesn’t end there, with multiple sources close to him said to have told the outlet that the number of children fathered by him is “much higher than publicly known.”
