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Elon Musk accused of sexual harassment

20 mei 2022

11:22

Elon Musk’s space company SpaceX has paid a flight attendant $250,000 to keep quiet about sexual harassment from the American billionaire. The news website Insider is now releasing the story, according to Musk to sabotage his deal with Twitter.

‘Finally we can use ‘Elongate’ as the name for a scandal. It is kinda perfect.’ It didn’t take long for Tesla boss Elon Musk to take to Twitter to mock the story of a flight attendant accusing him of sexually abusive behavior. He responds to an article from the American news websites Insiderwhich released the flight attendant story on Friday.

In 2016, the woman worked aboard a business jet belonging to SpaceX, Musk’s aerospace company. According to the woman, Musk bared his genitals on board, rubbed her leg unsolicited and promised her a horse in exchange for an erotic massage. That is stated in statements that a friend of the flight attendant shared with Insider.

They encouraged her to take a massage course. They implied that she would then be allowed to fly more often because she would be able to give Elon decent massages.

Friend of the flight attendant



Lost career opportunities

The flight attendant initially ignored his behavior, but filed a complaint with the company two years later. She felt that her career prospects had been damaged because she hadn’t taken up with Musk. She was getting fewer and fewer hours at work and felt like she was being pushed toward the exit. “They encouraged her to take a massage course,” says the flight attendant’s friend. “They implied that then she would be allowed to fly more often, because then she would be able to give Elon decent massages.”

After the complaint, the flight attendant had a conversation with Musk in the presence of a mediator. In November 2018, the flight attendant signed an agreement with SpaceX in which the company promised her $250,000 (238,000 euros) if she did not take further legal action. That document also contained a confidentiality clause.

‘Sabotage’

Musk did not want to comment on the article before publication Insider† Now that the story has been published, he does, via Twitter. He says the allegations are not true and claims the story is now coming out to sabotage his deal with Twitter. The purchase agreement that Musk previously concluded with the social media platform was already shakyafter Musk tried a lower price to stipulate.

Musk has another theory about why the 2016 story is still popping up: a political reckoning. ‘The friend who gave an interview to BI (Business Insider, red.) is a far-left activist/actress from LA who still has a political appeal to pick.’

On Thursday, Musk tweeted that he voted for the Democrats because they were “(usually) the nicest party.” “But they have become the party of hatred and division. So I can no longer support them and will now vote for the Republicans. Now watch their dirty trick campaign unfold against me.”

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