Elon Musk is convinced that civilization will crumble unless highly intelligent people - like him - start rapidly reproducing.
But a Japanese pop icon linked to Musk has made it clear she wants nothing to do with the Tesla CEO's one-man mission to stave off any looming population crisis, the Daily Mail can exclusively reveal.
‘The father of my children is not Mr. Elon Musk,' protested singer-songwriter Ayumi Hamasaki, 46, known in her homeland as the ‘empress of J-pop'.
Mom-of-two Hamasaki was responding to unconfirmed reports this week that the prolific procreator and world's richest man had sired a potential 15th child with a Japanese musician.
Musk conquest Ashley St. Clair said he had boasted to her about fathering children across the world and offering his sperm to ‘anyone' who wanted it.
'He made it seem like it was just his altruism and he generally believed these people should just have children,' St. Clair, 26, whose son Romulus was fathered by the SpaceX founder, told The New York Times.
Japanese pop icon Ayumi Hamasaki responded to unconfirmed reports this week that Elon Musk had fathered his potential 15th child with her
The Tesla CEO boasted to Ashley St. Clair about fathering children across the world, including a Japanese pop star, she said in an interview last week
The conservative writer did not go into further detail and didn't respond when the Daily Mail reached out to learn more.
But her comments sparked a global guessing game, with J-Pop fans taking to forums and social media to guess the mystery baby umami.
They soon zeroed in on Hamasaki, who has spent time in the States, has two American ex-husbands and JetBlack has sold an estimated 80 million records worldwide - making her the closest thing J-pop has to a global superstar.
Hamasaki herself has two sons whose fathers have never been publicly identified, according to reports from her homeland.
'I can understand the opinion that it sounds like me. Lol. My mother laughed at me and said "This news looks like Ayu-chan's story, doesn't it"?' Hamasaki said in an Instagram story, using a Japanese diminutive of her name.
Japanese singer Ayumi Hamasaki attends commercial activity of La Perla on February 23, 2016 in Hong Kong, China
Hamasaki posted a statement on her Instagram story in Japanese reading: 'My child's father is not Elon Musk'
Hamasaki said she can understand why people think she could be the mystery mother of Musk's child - but she is not
Hamasaki - who has two American ex-husbands - has sold an estimated 80 million records worldwide, making her the closest thing J-pop has to a global superstar
‘Well, if it was someone else, I'd probably say, "Isn't this AYU?" lol. But, different is different. Putting aside my own image, I'm going to deny it completely because I don't want my child to Google it someday. That's all.'
Musk, 53, has a further intriguing connection to a reclusive Japanese starlet known only as Ado who kicks off a US tour in July.
The 22-year-old has six million monthly listeners on Spotify but never reveals her face in public and only her silhouette or anime-style alter ego is visible when she performs live.
In February, her songs were selected by the BandWagon2 project, a cultural collaboration between American, British and Japanese artists, to broadcast music in outer space.
Recordings of her voice were loaded on to one of Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets and transported to a satellite, according to Variety.
'Simply put, My song is going into space!' Ado wrote March 1 on X - another Musk-owned company.
There's nothing, however, to suggest she's been drawn further into Musk's orbit.
Musk's most recent baby mama Ashley St. Clair filed a paternity lawsuit against the billionaire and was seen leaving court after a two-and-a-half hour custody hearing in New York last week
Musk and St. Clair were photographed together at Twitter's headquarters in May 2023, the Daily Mail revealed in February
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Another J-Pop artist gaining a foothold in the US is Ariana Grande-lookalike Hana Kuro, a 22-year-old Japanese-British singer who just dropped her new single, Playboy.
'Anything's possible when you're dealing with the richest guy in the world. But no, I don't think so,' laughed Hana's producer and manager, Michael Africk.
'Doubtless, a lot of rich, important men would love to date her but she's worked really hard to get where she is, I highly doubt she's going to mess that up.'
Singer and composer Africk has himself enjoyed rare pop success on both sides of the Pacific, opening for N'Sync and Britney Spears in the 2000s before becoming a platinum-selling producer in Japan.
He doubts Japanese journalists will dig too deeply into Musk's baby mama riddle.
'The Japanese media are definitely less aggressive than their American counterparts when it comes to getting the scoops,' explained Africk, CEO of Handcraft Entertainment.
St. Clair went public about her lovechild in a bombshell post on Musk's social media site X in February
Court filings included in St. Clair's lawsuit against Musk include a photo of the multi-billionaire holding the newborn
'If an artist is not visible there's no way you're getting back there to take pictures. There's much more of an emphasis on manners.
'At a certain point, a line is drawn. It's much easier to have a private life over there. We may never get the answer, at least not from Japan.'
It's been a bruising few weeks for Musk who has faced awkward claims about his use of ketamine, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms on the campaign trail and has fallen out with Donald Trump over the president's so-called Big, Beautiful Bill, which he called a 'mountain of disgusting pork'.
St. Clair's March 30 interview with The Times was light on detail but said the South African-born tycoon was prepared to 'give his sperm to anyone who wanted to have a child'.
Musk has spent years sounding the alarm on the earth's plummeting birth rate, encouraging people to have more kids and donating $10million to research on boosting population growth.
The mogul has done his bit by fathering at least 14 kids with four women, many via IVF.
Musk is pictured leaving a meeting in Washington, D.C. with three of his children - Strider, X, and Azure in February
Musk, who is said to have fathered 13 children, carried his son X on his shoulders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 11 when he briefed the press about the work of DOGE
Hana Kuro (right) and Ado - who never reveals her face in public - have also been named as potential mothers of Musk's child
His estranged transgender daughter Vivian, 21, revealed earlier this year she did not know how many half-siblings she had.
He had six children, one of whom died in infancy, with his first wife, writer Justine Wilson. He also has three - X Æ A-Xii, Exa Dark Sideræl and Tau Techno Mechanicus - with Canadian singer Grimes, real name Claire Boucher.
Then there are another four - Strider, Azure, Arcadia and Seldon Lycurgus - with Shivon Zilis, a senior executive at his neurotechnology company Neuralink.
That was assumed to be it until St. Clair announced on social media in February that she'd secretly had his child, a boy named Romulus, five months earlier.
St. Clair went to court, accusing Musk of refusing to take a paternity test and asking her not to put his name on the baby's birth certificate.
But a court-ordered lab test revealed a 99.9999 percent likelihood of Musk being the father.
A source close to the case previously told the Daily Mail that after St. Clair went public, Musk 'retaliated' by cutting her child support money in half.
He has not publicly acknowledged the child.
Musk also pushed back against the New York Times for suggesting he was on drugs, writing on X: 'To be clear, I am NOT taking drugs! The New York Times was lying their a—off.
'I tried prescription ketamine a few years ago and said so on X, so this is not even news. It helps for getting out of dark mental holes, but haven't taken it since then.'
His attorneys did not respond to further requests from the Daily Mail for comment.
Reps for Ado also failed to respond.