An enormous Japanese pop star, Ayumi Hamasaki, has addressed the rumours that she secretly had Elon Musk’s child.
The hypothesis began when one other of the ladies Musk had a toddler with – MAGA creator and influencer Ashley St. Clair – instructed The New York Instances that he had a child with a Japanese pop star.
Hamasaki rapidly grew to become the first suspect as followers mentioned which J-Pop star St. Clair might need been referring to.
‘I’ve been maintaining a tally of this, and I suppose it’s time for me to talk up. Elon Musk is just not the daddy of [either of] my youngsters,’ Hamasaki wrote on her Instagram Story, based on Tokyo Weekender.
Hamasaki, 46, has two sons with two totally different males, born in 2019 and 2021. She has by no means revealed the identities of the fathers.
In keeping with textual content messages obtained by The Wall Road Journal, Musk texted St. Clair in 2023 about assembly with ‘Japanese officers’ about changing into a sperm donor for a high-profile Japanese girl.
‘He made it look like it was simply his altruism and he typically believed these individuals ought to simply have youngsters,’ St. Clair, who gave beginning to his thirteenth baby final 12 months, stated.
‘They need me to be a sperm donor. No romance or something, simply sperm,’ Musk texted St. Clair earlier than telling her he had agreed to offer his sperm to the girl.
Musk has beforehand claimed that ‘civilization goes to crumble’ if individuals don’t proceed to have youngsters, and views his paternal contributions as a approach of combating this.
Hamasaki laughed off the rumours, admitting its the type of factor she would possibly do: ‘Even my mother laughed when she heard the rumours, saying, “This appears type of Ayu-like,” and if I had been another person, I’d most likely be saying “Ayu is the pop star [St Clair] was speaking about, proper?” Nevertheless it’s simply not true,’ she stated on Instagram.
She continued, in a extra severe tone: ‘Setting apart my private picture, when my youngsters are sufficiently old to begin Googling issues, I don’t need them to run into the rumors and assume they’re true, so I’m firmly denying them,’ the singer added.
Hamasaki is the best-selling solo artist in Japan, having bought over 50million albums and incomes her the title ‘Empress of Pop’ throughout all of Asia.
As of 2025, Musk has fathered no less than 14 youngsters with 4 totally different girls.
Musk’s first recognized youngsters had been along with his ex-wife Justine Wilson, a Canadian creator. The couple had six youngsters collectively: Their first son, Nevada Alexander, tragically died of SIDS at simply 10 weeks outdated.
They later welcomed twins, Griffin and Vivian, in 2004, adopted by triplets, Kai, Saxon, and Damian, in 2006.
In 2022, Vivian publicly distanced herself from Musk, popping out as transgender, legally altering her identify, and adopting her mom’s surname.
Musk additionally shares three youngsters with musician Grimes (Claire Boucher). Their first baby, X Æ A-Xii, was born in 2020 and have become a viral sensation because of his identify.
He was additionally noticed on the White Home final week – with out his mom’s consent.
‘He shouldn’t be in public like this,’ Grimes wrote following the looks. ‘I didn’t see this, thank u for alerting me. However I’m glad he was well mannered. Sigh.’
In 2021, the couple welcomed a daughter, Exa Darkish Sideræl, through surrogate. Regardless of a publicly rocky relationship, that they had a 3rd baby, Techno Mechanicus (nicknamed Tau), reportedly born in 2024.
In 2021, Musk quietly had twins with Shivon Zilis, an government at his brain-computer interface firm Neuralink. The births weren’t publicly recognized till courtroom paperwork surfaced in 2022.
Since then, Zilis and Musk have had two extra youngsters: one in early 2024 and one other – a son named Seldon Lycurgus – in February 2025.
His baby with St. Clair was solely revealed in February, after St Clair, who has over one million followers on X wrote: ‘5 months in the past, I welcomed a brand new child into the world. Elon Musk is the daddy.’
She added: ‘I’ve not beforehand disclosed this to guard our baby’s privateness and security, however in current days, it has grow to be clear that tabloid media intends to take action, whatever the hurt it can trigger.’
After the billionaire commented ‘whoa’ in response, St Clair wrote a now deleted remark: ‘Elon, we now have been making an attempt to speak for the previous a number of days, and you haven’t responded. When are you going to answer to us as a substitute of publicly responding to smears from a person who simply posted pictures of me in underwear at 15 years outdated?’
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