Air hostess who accused Musk of sexual misconduct paid $2,50,000 by SpaceX to maintain quiet: Report

An air hostess who accused Elon Musk of sexual misconduct was allegedly paid off to remain silent on the matter, a report mentioned.

A flight attendant who accused Elon Musk of sexually harassing her on a flight in 2016, was reportedly paid $2,50,000 to stay silent on the matter.

A flight attendant who accused SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk of sexually harassing her on a flight in 2016, was reportedly paid $2,50,000 to stay silent on the matter. The air hostess was paid by SpaceX in 2018 to settle the declare of sexual misconduct towards Elon Musk.

The attendant, who used to work on a contract foundation for the company jet fleet of SpaceX, accused Musk of exposing himself to her, rubbing her leg with out consent and providing to purchase her a horse or an erotic therapeutic massage, the Business Insider reported.

“The incident is alleged in a declaration signed by a friend of the attendant and prepared in support of her claim. The details in this story are drawn from the declaration as well as other documents, including email correspondence and other records shared with Insider by the friend,” added the Business Insider report.

According to the declaration, the attendant advised her good friend that after taking the flight attendant job, she was pushed to get licensed as a masseuse in order that she may give massages to Musk. She additional mentioned throughout one such therapeutic massage session, in a personal cabin on Musk’s Gulfstream G650ER, he propositioned her.

The flight attendant advised her good friend that in 2016, Musk requested her to come back to his room throughout a flight for a full-body therapeutic massage. She mentioned in her declaration, that when she got here to his room, she discovered him “completely naked except for a sheet covering the lower half of his body.”

During the therapeutic massage, the declaration mentioned, Musk “exposed his genitals” after which “touched her and offered to buy her a horse if she would ‘do more'”.

When requested for a remark, Musk advised Insider there may be “a lot more to this story.”

He referred to as the report ‘politically motivated’, including, “If I were inclined to engage in sexual harassment, this is unlikely to be the first time in my entire 30-year career that it comes to light.”