"A court order is not necessary"
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, has expressed that he would not refuse a paternity test for the woman who claimed to have given birth to his 13th child.
According to The Hill and other U.S. political media outlets on the 31st of last month (local time), Musk posted on his X (formerly Twitter) account, "I don't know if the child is mine or not, but I do not oppose a (paternity) test," adding, "A court order is not necessary."
This statement from Musk came after reports that a court had ordered him to undergo a paternity test. Musk is currently involved in a legal battle over child support and other issues with influencer Ashley Saint Clair, who claims to have given birth to his 13th child.
Saint Clair alleges that Musk reduced child support payments. Musk responded, "I'm not sure, but I have given Ashley $2.5 million (about 3.7 billion KRW) and send $500,000 (about 700 million KRW) annually." Saint Clair announced via X in February this year that she had given birth to Musk's child five months earlier.
At that time, she filed a lawsuit for paternity confirmation and custody, stating that Musk "has met the child only three times so far and has not been involved in the child's upbringing or care at all."
Regarding Musk's recent statement, Saint Clair criticized, "You refused to take a paternity test even before the child (whom you named) was born." She added, "You did not send money to me but sent money for the child you thought you needed," and claimed, "You withdrew most of it to punish me for 'disobedience.'"
Before Saint Clair revealed that she had given birth to Musk's child, Musk was known to have 12 children. Two weeks after the claim of the 13th child, Shervin Pishevar, an executive at Musk's neurotechnology startup Neuralink, announced the birth of their fourth child with Musk. Including Saint Clair's child, Musk is known to have 14 children in total.
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