Crime Junkie creator and host Ashley Flowers’ Audiochuck, a juggernaut podcast company in true crime and mystery storytelling, has received a $40 million minority investment from Peter Chernin’s The Chernin Group.

Top true-crime podcast company Audiochuck, founded by Ashley Flowers, has received $40 million in funding from Peter Chernin's the Chernin Group. It's the first outside capital for Audiochuck, which plans to use the investment to "scale the company and fuel its next phase of growth,

Flowers hosts the second most popular show in the US. Now she’s brought on investors to take on YouTube, Hollywood and her biggest live tour yet.

In the petitions filed on Friday, which were obtained by Rolling Stone, she asks the court to legally establish Musk, the billionaire DOGE chief, as the father of the baby, identified as R.S.C. in the documents and born to St. Clair in September 2024, and to obtain sole custody of the child. The news was first reported by User Mag .

Ashley St. Clair, a conservative political commentator and children's author, is seeking to legally declare Elon Musk is the father of her child. Plus, she wants to get sole custody of her 5-month-old son, which comes after a pair of petitions she filed in Manhattan Supreme Court on Friday, February 21.