Elon Musk treats his 13 kids as if he’s a cult leader – if he wasn’t a billionaire he’d be starring on Jeremy Kyle

IF pronatalist* Elon Musk was penniless and living on a US trailer park or UK sink estate, he’d have been a shoo-in for taking centre stage on the now-defunct Jeremy Kyle show. The audience would have booed heartily at the news that he’s now fathered 13 children by four different women, and shrieked with disapproval as one of his conquests claims he texted her, “I want to knock you up again.” Lovely.

But as he is deemed to be the richest man in the world with a seat at the top table of US power, the feckless behaviour he displays in his private life appears to attract little criticism beyond the sentiment of, “Oh, that’s just how Elon is.”. Consequently, he seemingly behaves with impunity as he waltzes in and out of the lives of various women, impregnating some with his child before, evidence suggests, leaving them to join a long queue of people trying to get his attention.

Take the words of musician Grimes, mother to children numbers seven, ten and 11, who last week had to resort to Musk’s social media ­platform X to ask him to, “Plz respond about our child’s medical crisis . . . I am sorry to do this publicly but it is no longer acceptable to ignore this situation.

“This requires immediate attention. “If you don’t want to talk to me can you please designate or hire someone who can so that we can move forward on solving this. “This is urgent, Elon.”. Seriously? The post has since been deleted but, while Musk may well pay for the upkeep of his various offspring, what sort of father makes it so hard for the mother of three of them to get hold of him when it comes to parental responsibilities of the pastoral kind?.

Grimes castigated him back in January for “parading” their four-year-old son X at a White House press conference after she had specifically said she wanted to keep their children out of the public eye. Meanwhile, a clip from the same event has now gone viral as it shows Musk striding off while the young child navigates a set of steps alone, leading to accusations that he simply used him as a “prop”.

And what about his trans daughter ­Vivian who no longer speaks to her ­famous father and changed her surname to Wilson after her author mother Justine?. Last year, Musk said his “son” has been “born gay and slightly autistic” and was “killed by the woke mind virus”.

Vivian, now 20, responded: “He doesn’t know what I was like as a child because he quite simply wasn’t there, and in the little time that he was, I was relentlessly harassed for my femininity and queerness.”. Even Musk’s own dad, Errol, told a podcast last week, “No, he hasn’t been a good father.”.

On the above evidence alone, few could argue with that. And now baby number 13 — known only as “RSC”, has made an appearance in the world and his mother Ashley St Clair is suing Musk for full custody and demanding he take a paternity test. It perhaps goes without saying that he wasn’t present at the birth and “hasn’t expressed any interest in having custody”.

But if Ms St Clair’s claims are true that he texted her to say, “I want to knock you up again” and “Well, we do have a legion of kids to make”, then it’s clear that his attitude towards parenting is up there with that of an egotistical cult leader — that siring a large number of children is a reflection of his virility.

This theory is backed up by the news that he’s spent £35million on a large, multi-property compound in Austin, Texas, where he hopes his “baby mamas” will live together harmoniously and he’ll no doubt pop in occasionally to see how they’re getting on. Big of him.

So far, only Yale graduate Shivon Zilis — mother to two of Musk’s children — has reportedly taken up the offer to live in “Musktown” or whatever it’s called. The idea of a one-stop commune to make it easy for a giant ego to visit all his children at once is bad enough.

But coming from one of the most ­powerful men in the world, it’s pretty disturbing. YOGA teacher Leanne Lucas was the organiser of the Taylor Swift-themed party at which three young girls were murdered by the Southport killer. Despite being stabbed five times herself, 36-year-old Leanne managed to steer some children to safety before needing life-saving surgery for her injuries.

Yet she reveals that while she was recovering in hospital, she was targeted by online trolls blaming her for the youngsters’ deaths because she arranged the event. We all know that the majority of trolls are sad people who rarely leave their mother’s spare bedroom.

But what level of knuckle-dragging moron do you have to be to blame this brave young woman for the evil actions of a deranged killer?. DOWNTON Abbey actress Elizabeth McGovern, 63, took to the catwalk for Burberry as part of London Fashion Week. Strutting alongside her was fellow thespian Lesley Manville, 68.