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.
