American "business insider" website broke out the "sex scandal" of Tesla CEO Elon Musk on the 19th, saying that a stewardess of SpaceX's business aircraft fleet accused musk of sexual harassment, including exposing her private parts, but was later "sealed" by SpaceX for $250000.
After that, musk intensively tweeted, accusing it of being a political attack on him and intended to interfere with his acquisition of twitter. He also named the "scandal" - elongate, and challenged the stewardess to tell him something unknown to the outside world, such as scars or tattoos.
"Business insider" reported that the informant was a friend of the stewardess involved, who signed a statement in support of the stewardess' allegations. The relevant details of the report came from the statement and other documents, including the e-mail and other records of the friend and the party.
The statement said that the stewardess' accusation occurred on a flight to London at the end of 2016. At that time, musk invited the stewardess to his private cabin for a full body massage. When she entered the room, she found that musk was "naked with only a sheet covering his lower body". During the massage, musk "revealed his private parts" and "stroked her and said that if she could 'do more', she would buy her a horse". The statement said that this refers to sexual behavior. The stewardess refused, but continued to finish the massage.
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The "business insider" website quoted a friend of the stewardess as saying that after the incident, the stewardess felt that she had suffered "some kind of revenge" for refusing musk, damaging her job opportunities in SpaceX, which prompted her to hire a lawyer in 2018. SpaceX later paid the stewardess $250000 and reached an out of court settlement agreement with her, including a confidentiality agreement to prohibit the stewardess from talking about the matter, the report said.
"Business insider" contacted musk for comment on the allegations. Musk said in an email, "if I have a tendency to sexual harassment, it would not be exposed for the first time in my 30-year career", calling the report a "politically motivated attack". He asked for more time to respond and said "there is still a lot about this story". "We will not comment on any settlement agreement," Christopher kadaisy, vice president of legal affairs of SpaceX, said in an interview
After that, musk posted intensive posts on Twitter to make a voice on this matter, and only sent 6 tweets on the 20th. From the perspective of Reuters, they should have no right to fight for the good future, but musk said, "from the perspective of politics, they should have no right to stop me from fighting for the good future." However, he did not mention the allegations in the "business insider" report. ↓
After that, musk directly refuted the allegations. "I want to challenge the liar who claims that their friend (the stewardess involved) saw me 'exposed' - just describe one thing, anything the public doesn't know (scars, tattoos...). She can't do this because it never happened," he wrote in a tweet ↓
Musk said in another tweet that "these crazy allegations are completely untrue". The article was also intended to interfere with his own business insider. ↓
In a recent tweet, musk said: "finally, we can use 'elonmen' as the name of the scandal. It's a little perfect." In this tweet, musk cites his 2021 tweet - "if there's a scandal about me, please call it 'elongate'.". ↓
Reuters said on the 20th that it was impossible to verify what was described on the "business insider" website.