SpaceX founder Elon Musk said in a tweet late Thursday that « wild accusations » against him are not true.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk said in a tweet late Thursday that « wild accusations » against him are not true. He did not explain what those accusations were. But his response came after a Business Insider report on Thursday said the aerospace company had paid $250,000 in severance to a flight attendant who accused the billionaire of sexual misconduct. The report, which cited interviews and documents obtained by Insider, said the woman claimed that during a massage she was giving Musk he exposed his erect penis, touched her thigh without her consent and offered to buy her a horse if she performed sex acts. Musk, without referring directly to the report, tweeted that « for the record, those wild accusations are utterly untrue. »
« The attacks against me should be viewed through a political lens – this is their standard (despicable) playbook », he tweeted. Insider reported that the alleged incident occurred in Musk’s room aboard a SpaceX jet on a flight to London in late 2016, after the world’s richest person asked her to give him a « full body massage.
