Elon Musk, Ashley and the Alleged Child Support NDA

Burchill is Musk's fixer. He manages his personal finances and hires bodyguards and private eyes.

Elon would connect us to discuss certain areas of concern.

He was responsible for the disbursement of all the funds and all the money.

This will come with a basic agreement that basically says, "I understand that I'm accepting this money and that it's to be used for these purposes, and I understand that confidentiality and privacy is very important to the father."

Basically just that. So an NDA as well.

Uh, yeah. The NDA that he had provided me was labeled as a child support agreement.

It was a lump sum of $15 million and then $100,000 a month for 21 years.

Did the other mothers sign one?

Did the... Uh, yeah, absolutely. Well, they don't seem too happy, do they?

Um, I mean, I don't think a drugged out, uh, musician is ever going to find true happiness, and, uh, I think Yvon goes in and out of finding contentment.

Jared was very adversarial. I don't know how to characterize someone who degrades and borderline threatens a woman who's freshly postpartum.

Elon is a very big-hearted, kind, and generous person.

But when a mother of his children or a woman in general who he, uh, trusted and/or, you know, had a relationship with decides that they're gonna go the legal route, that always, always leads to a worse outcome- Yeah ... for that woman than, than what it would've been otherwise.

W- you know, what did you opt into? W- were you opting into a retirement plan or were you opting into a child?

Being a mom. What's that? Being a mom. I was covering Elon Musk for the Wall Street Journal when I started speaking with Ashley.

It was very clear from the phone call and some of the corresponding text messages that they had a system in place.

Under this NDA that she's told to sign, she would not be able to reveal the paternity of this child to anyone other than that child.

She didn't feel like that was a bargain she wanted to take.

I told him, "I cannot in good conscience sign that document."

She came out with a tweet saying that she had mothered one of his children, and that's when he really began distancing himself and even casting doubt as to whether he was the father.

After she put out the tweet announcing that the baby was Elon's, Elon revoked the $15 million payment, and he reduced her stipend from $100,000 a month to $40,000 a month, and then he halved the payment again.

This was financial retaliation for speaking out.

It was almost as if he didn't show a certain side of himself until after I had our baby.