TMZ reports that the voice of Elmo, Kevin Clash, paid Sheldon Stephens $125,000 to recant his underage sex allegations. Stephens claimed that he and Clash had a sexual relationship when he was only 16. Clash acknowledges the relationship but insists that is started when Clash was an adult. One requirement of the pay out was that if Stephen's was asked about the relationship he was to say, "He wants it to be known that his sexual relationship with Mr. Clash was an adult consensual relationship".