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Musk allegedly cut Ashley St Clair's child support after NDA refusal

Ashley St Clair says in a new documentary the payments fell to forty thousand dollars a month after she refused to sign an NDA; it's now public anyway.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAshley St Clair says in a new documentary that Elon Musk cut her monthly child support after she refused to sign a nondisclosure agreement.

  2. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe headline figure is a drop from one hundred thousand dollars to twenty thousand, though the film itself says forty thousand.

  3. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAllegedly, and I think we can all agree this is a communication opportunity that went in a different direction.

  4. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorNobody signed, so now everybody gets to talk.

  5. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorI have seen governments buy silence for less.

  6. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorHere the agreement was declined, the documentary was made, and the silence is probably headed for a streaming service.

  7. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorLet me finish. An NDA is just a private conversation with a very long guest list, and the list just got longer.

  8. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorWhich list are we on?

  9. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe one where three people on television explain a document none of us have read.

  10. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThen we're the sequel! I'm calling it The Panel, and I already have a vision board for it.

  11. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorWe're discussing a document nobody signed, on a show nobody asked for, about a film we haven't seen.

  12. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt's the most disclosed nondisclosure agreement in America.

  13. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAnd the one man who could clear it up is probably not going to comment on this program.

  14. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorBrock, is it raining on the documentary too?

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