Elon Musk, one of the world’s richest men, allegedly sexually assaulted a flight attendant aboard his private jet.
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Sexual Assault Claim
Elon Musk, once (and potentially currently, depending on the value of his assets) the richest man in the world was battling claims of sexual assault this week that took place in 2016. During a flight to London aboard his private Gulfstream 650ER, Musk allegedly requested a full body massage from a flight attendant in his bedroom. The flight attendant that worked on his aircraft for some time had been encouraged to acquire training as a masseuse for long-duration flights. SpaceX generally promotes massages to reduce stress and employs staff masseuses.
Upon entering Musk’s private bedroom, the flight attendant found Musk nude but for a sheet over his lower half according to a friend of the accuser. At some point during the massage, Musk removed the sheet exposing his genitals and offered to buy her a horse if she would “do more” while touching the flight attendant’s leg. She declined. According to the accuser’s friend, the flight attendant was an avid equestrian.
The sexual misconduct claims have been denied by SpaceX who employed the flight attendant and by Musk himself.
Accusation, Payoff
The co-founder of Zip2, PayPal, and founder of The Boring Company, Neuralink, Tesla, and SpaceX has been at the center of news media the last few weeks after he offered to buy Twitter in its entirety. While the company has not commented publicly on any disbursements, Business Insider claims to have confirmed that SpaceX paid a flight attendant $250,000 for the alleged incident.
The accuser’s friend came forward as she could not herself due to a purported non-disclosure agreement (NDA) she executed in connection with the 2018 payment.
“While Musk did not specify which accusations he was referring to in his tweets, he told Insider there was “a lot more to this story” as he asked the publication for more time to respond to the article’s claims, according to the outlet.
“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,” Musk wrote to Insider, according to the story. He also said its article was a “politically motivated hit piece,” the outlet reported. – CNBC
He added that the “wild accusations are utterly untrue.” The claim came out just one day following an announcement that while he had voted Democrat in the past he would vote Republican in upcoming elections and that the accusations are from those who have a “major political axes to grind.”
Private Flight Attendants
Private flight attendants face challenges other flight attendants for major airlines do not. It’s possible the only passenger on the aircraft is the direct employer and, in this case, one of the richest men in the world. Privacy, bedrooms, and a unique flying schedule allow opportunities for impropriety. In the case of Musk, it also eliminates corroborating witnesses who may have been able to corroborate that the allegations made were untrue.
Conclusion
The accuser in this case can’t come forward directly (though it seems it would still violate her NDA if she shared the details with a friend.) A payoff is not an admission of guilt. SpaceX would likely spend far more than $250,000 on a court case regardless of the veracity of the claims made. True or not, fiscally settling the claims out of court (in this case, through a mediator) would be the more prudent decision. That said, I don’t want to cast doubt on the claims made – just two people know what really happened on that flight and I am neither one of them. The matter does bring to light just how difficult being a private flight attendant can be and the precarious situations one can find themselves in.
What do you think? Is there a way to maintain privacy but allow protections for private flight attendants?
And he immediately switched to republican party. Water finds its level. And the moron talks about freedom of speech while making people sign NDAs
White Republican males are terrorists, rapists, hypocrites, sexual predators. Not all of them of course, but why waste time making that distinction.
Most sexual abusers are democrats and most mass shooters are black.
Sorry you suffer from race envy.
Statistics and crime shows you’re won’t and jealous
@Random gawande
Wow, you sound like a super educated, open minded, non-bias, anti-hate filled American….
I mean come on… none of those traits exist on the left… can’t be that maybe your opinions blind you and cause ignorance to pour out of your mouth and drip onto your keyboard.
I am no fan of Elon, but he’s far from a republican… MAYBE more independent and in the middle, but not a republican. He wants to help save the world; FORCE clean energy (that’s AOC type stuff, not Trump), anti-oil, feed the world,
Your hate comes from the fact he worked harder and made more money than you… and sure, luck had a lot to do with it… But you’re just jealous and want more of his money; you won’t be happy until he’s taxed to the point were you don’t have to work… or get a free Tesla.
Grow up and stop being a left wing child who calls anyone with a different opinions than yours a rapists, terrorist or sexual deviant. All it does is confirm how the woke are so close minded and intolerant.
Musk said he was a republican, and that he is going to vote for Republican candidates in the future. Is that not enough, or is there some sort of initiation that you have to go through?
@jerry
That’s a good point, however, life is NOT left or right… It’s not black and white… well, it shouldn’t be anyway
We live in a very high definition world. The problem is that with only 2 main sides, that all the sheep tend to follow are yes/no; Black/White.
There is much more. You want to joke about initiation, but did the left guys and gals (have to Politicly correct here) revoked his card???? even after how far he moved the needle on Solar and Electric Cars here in the US? Where would the left be without Tesla today?
Voting for one side in a 2 party system is only, again, voting for the lessor of the 2 evils… Now, if you are hard core close minded and opposed to what he sees for the future; all electric cars (including semi trucks), solar panels on every building, travel to the moon/Mars … OR you’re too engrained in the our polarized Left/Right system and can’t think for yourself, then I can see your view… which is opposite of his.
Good he’s coming to his senses. Anyone still voting for democrats is stuck on stupid
@Koggerj
That wasn’t my point either LOL
The world is too complex for Black/White… Left/Right.
Our two party system is horrible for modern times. Every SINGLE person should have on opinion on every single topic independently.. and if you don’t, you’re part of the problem! baa
And those politicians on BOTH sides are doing a wonderful job of playing the 2 sides against each other while they laugh at us! Their goal is keeping us polarized, uninformed and flighting against each other… you know what that does? it keeps them in office….
so instead of me listing to your answer and reasoning behind your answer… “I Reclaim My Time” 😛
In Brazil we have more than 20 parties! But 2022’s elections is very polarized between Work Party (PT) with former President – who just left jail with HIS supreme court help – in one side and president Jair Bolsonaro, who was in a meeting with Elon Musk last friday.
Media and leftists screams madly making a lot of noise, for one only reason: Musk visited Bolsonaro not a PT president.
It’s the same thing in the whole World!!
Lefties doesn’t accept Right parties and right wing people now have VOICE, because they can’t live without the monopoly of (mis)information!
Not a surprise that only after Musk said would vote for republicans and made an offer for Twitter to garantee free speech for EVERYONE at that platform – which not happening nowadays – this 2016 “sexual asault”, with a deal made in 2018, become fresh news in the media in US and in Brazil where he is this weekend…
There’s no solution whike looking Right side or Left side… if you want real freedom and happiness, look UP side!! May God bless y’all!
Moooooooooo, Wilson, my Maga friend!!
Good thing Lula will expel Bolsonaro and his corrupt militia friends on this year elections. Bozo (the clown) and their criminal sons straight to jail!
Brazil back to the world.
He said he voted mostly Democrat his entire life. Funny that when he exposed the lies and manipulation pf Twitter and that due to being disgusted with Democrats he was going to vote Republican this story suddenly popped out. Ohhhh, politics!!!
Attendant should inform at that time but why now after long time ?
@Arnab – The incident took place in 2016. She should have reported anything untoward then. She felt retaliated against based on fewer hours over a period time ultimately resulting in the 2018 payout. The revelation of this four-year-old matter is part of the timing that Musk is questioning.
The ALLEGED incident.
That’s a fair edit.
Are you that naive? The guy exposed the lies of Twitter and said he will vote Republican. Any idea why this came out now?
He was asked for comment about the story the morning he declared himself a republican. Then claimed he was about to be targeted because of it… the story was already written, and the Republicans ate it all up.
He seems like a guy that watched the docudrama about Uber and felt it would be a good idea to model his behavior after Travis Kalanick
Because Elon is no longer a “friend” of the democrat party and when that happens the party goes after you hard in any way possible. They are like the statsi.
Kind of like the Republicans that wouldn’t go along with trying to steal the election? How was Liz Cheney treated by the GOP? She’s about as conservative as you can get but lost her leadership position because she actually thinks voting is the way to choose a president.
Umm…Liz Cheney is about as conservative as Bill Clinton…..
Sara Nelson and her geratric cat ranchers are behind this.
The stew should be grateful Elon have get any attention. Probably the highlight of her life.
Sounds like if it was you in her shoes you would have gladly obliged his request
I would have ! In a heartbeat.. so what is your point??
Why some here find it’s necessary to somehow attribute party affiliation and political ideology to sexual misconduct is pretty damn weird in my opinion.
Just playing the uno reverse card. Doing what the said race and political ideology has done for decades: stereotype.
if that were the case then white men should be stereotyped and the creators of nations and wealth?
This is literally straight out of the democrat playbook. Someone says something they don’t like (they’ll even eat even their own) and they trot out the sexual harassment allegations, or their racist, or some random -phobe. I’m glad people are waking up to their bullsh1t and that they’ve so overplayed their hand.
On another note, what the hell is fatphobic? No one is frightened by fat people, you can just walk quickly away from them…
Remember in November.
Let’s see. This happened in 2016. Musk is looking to take over Twitter and the liberals are soiling themselves. So now she decides to come forward. We’ve seen this movie before. Lame at best.
Musk is the only one overplaying his hand. Twitter will be abandoned by the left and become MySpace if he ever actually takes it over, and unless he starts making teslas that emit black smoke the right will never start buying his cars en masse. Let’s see how his companies do when the government wises up and ends his subsidies. He’s smart to court the republican jock sniffers who will make sure they sign over their social security checks to him like they do with trump.. but Donald won’t like him horning in on his grift
lol. “Twitter will be abandoned by the left if Musk takes it over.” And why would they do that? Because Musk has the audacity to announce he’ll allow more free speech. Tells you everything you need to know about the Left. They don’t want to debate. They want to shut down the debate. Because they know they’ll lose every rational discussion. EVERY. TIME.
But thanks for admitting that, Billy Bob. lol
6 years later a friend who happens to be an actress and liberal activist comes forward. Why? Why now? Her friend got $250k and didn’t have a problem with that regardless of what may have happened on that plane. She agreed to that as fair so even if Musk is totally a bad guy she got paid. That ship has sailed.
Where do I apply?
Say yes and get a horse. Say no and get $250,000.
Seems solid. I can say no to giving handies daily until early retirement. Sadly I’m a middle aged dude so I may not get many offers.
And the lefty media world dutifully join hands and help spread the latest unsubstantiated accusations thrown at a heavy media influencer who dares not think like they do and dares to point out their hypocrisies. “MUST CANCEL THE HERETIC!!!”
The left are nothing if not predictable. (And completely shameless.)
Elon is a mixed bag. Everyone is. He has good traits and bad traits. its unfortunate but its life. His good traits make me hopeful for the future. His bad traits are just increasing in number and may have an affect on his buildup of goodwill. As far as politics go I think he is more a social liberal and fiscal conservative like bloomberg. He probably more thinks of himself as an independant but has been pigeonholed as a democrat because of his businesses focus on electric and solar over oil and gas.
It was inevitable that the leftists would dredge up some woman to claim sexual harassment, once Musk started getting too successful in pissing off the leftist infrastructure. As if, all of a sudden this woman feels compelled to speak “truth to power” because Musk is trying to buy Twitter and he’s owning the libs on social media. This is what they do – just ask 3 conservative justices. I don’t care who she works for, I am not buying it – simply because of the timing, and because of all of the other phony attacks we’ve seen in the past on those who threaten the power base.