To The Moon

Ashley St. Clair wanted to prove that Elon Musk was the father of her newborn baby.But to ask the billionaire to take a paternity test, the right-wing social-media influencer had to go through Musk's longtime fixer, Jared Birchall."I don't want my son to feel like he's a secret," St. Clair told Birchall in a two-hour phone call in December.Birchall offered St. Clair some advice. His boss was a "very big-hearted, kind and generous person," he said. But Musk had a different side. When a mother of his child goes "the legal route" in these discussions, "that always, always leads to a worse outcome for that woman than what it would have been otherwise," Birchall told the 26-year-old. Plus, he said, Musk wasn't sure the child was his.It wasn't the first such conversation for Birchall. His public job is running Musk's family office, and he recently helped organize Musk's more than $250 million push in support of Donald Trump's election.Musk refers to his offspring as a "legion," a reference t