A stewardess on a private SpaceX jet accused the tycoon Elon Musk for a case of sexual harassment inside an airplane of the company that he owns, but the complaint did not prosper after an agreement by which SpaceX paid $250,000 in exchange for his silencesecure the portal Business Insiderwhose source is a friend of the affected.
Musk has already reacted on his Twitter account denying the facts, alleging that the person who gave his testimony is “a far left activist from Los Angeles” and that “the only objective (of those who support the complaint) was to interfere in the purchase of Twitter,” adding that the journalist wrote his article without having consulted him.
According to the article, Musk had hired a private jet for a trip to London in 2016 and asked a massage as part of the services available for senior executives, and in the middle of the massage he showed his erect penis to the masseuse – who had initially been hired as a stewardess – and touched her thighstelling her that if she acceded to his wishes he could “buy her a horse”, but she refused.
The stewardess, whose name is not revealed, was eventually fired in retaliation for not acceding to Musk’s wishesand then hired a lawyer, but in 2018 the SpaceX company He proposed a payment of 250,000 dollars not to take the case to court and never refer to it againin a meeting of his lawyer in which Musk himself was present, always according to the article.
Neither the stewardess nor her lawyer have wanted to speak to the media, while the vice president of Space X, Christopher Cardaci, has said that does not intend to “comment on settlement agreements”.
Musk has chosen to respond via Twitter, using the account of a Fox News journalist, and in his comments he added: “I have to challenge that liar who claims that her friend saw me ‘exposed’: Describe only one thing – a tattoo, a scar, whatever-that the public doesn’t know about. He won’t be able to do it, because it never happened.”