Seems just like the Elon Musk rocket is about to crash and burn…
So if you happen to don’t observe the Tesla CEO on Twitter — you understand, the app he thought he was about to purchase — there was fairly the attention-grabbing improvement on Wednesday. He put out a sequence of tweets about how he’ll completely vote Republican as a result of Democrats are evil, blah blah blah. However then he adopted it up with a pair extra ominous messages:
“Now watch their soiled methods marketing campaign towards me unfold…”
and…
“Political assaults on me will escalate dramatically in coming months”
In case you’ve been on this enterprise so long as we now have, you’ll be able to scent a PR technique like this a mile off. We instantly thought to ourselves, “OK, is Elon making an attempt to get forward of a foul story popping out?” In spite of everything, information retailers attain out for a remark earlier than they publish — so public figures are very hardly ever blindsided by tales. To not point out the actual fact they know what they did…
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Calling out future “political assaults” may match together with his cultish followers, nevertheless it doesn’t actually make any sense. We imply… all he did was say he’s gonna vote Republican. It’s not like that’s a giant shock. Most billionaires do, as a result of that’s the occasion that offers them one of the best tax breaks.
Anyhoo, it solely took about 24 hours earlier than our suspicions had been confirmed. Enterprise Insider turned out to be the outlet with the inside track, and right here it’s:
Elon Musk secretly paid a SpaceX flight attendant $250,000 to settle a sexual misconduct declare in 2018. They usually have all the main points.
A good friend of the flight attendant opened as much as the location, signing a declaration and in addition handing over numerous correspondence and paperwork. All the following comes from this supply and their data:
Based on the supply, the younger girl labored as cabin crew for SpaceX’s company jet fleet in 2016. After taking the job, she was inspired to get a therapeutic massage license as effectively, particularly so she may very well be tasked with giving Elon massages at any time when he needed. OK, ew already. The good friend says:
“They implied that she would get to fly extra typically if she had been to do that as a result of she’d be capable to give Elon correct massages. I believed that was form of unusual as a result of — you weren’t employed to be a masseuse. You had been employed to be a flight attendant. And if Elon likes massages, then he needs to be paying so that you can go to masseuse faculty. However she was simply so blissful and wanting to have the job and be capable to journey.”
However that’s simply the beginning of the line-crossing. Throughout a flight to London on his Gulfstream G650ER, the girl claimed, Elon requested her to return to his non-public cabin to provide him “a full physique therapeutic massage.” When she entered, he “was utterly bare aside from a sheet protecting the decrease half of his physique.” In the course of the therapeutic massage, she stated, he purposely “uncovered his genitals” after which “touched her and supplied to purchase her a horse if she would ‘do extra,’ referring to the efficiency of intercourse acts.”
Sorry, a horse?! What an odd element… The supply informed the location:
“He whipped out his penis, it was erect. And he began propositioning her, like he touched her thigh and informed her he would purchase her a horse. And he mainly tried to bribe her to carry out some kind of sexual favor.”
Apparently the flight attendant rides horses, and Elon was knowledgeable of this in some unspecified time in the future. Anyway, she rejected the supply and continued with the therapeutic massage in an expert method.
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Later she opened as much as the good friend about this whereas on a hike. The good friend described her as distraught over the incident:
“She was actually upset. She didn’t know what to do.”
First, the good friend says, this clearly ruined her job for her:
“Earlier than the incident, she regarded Mr. Musk as an individual to look as much as. However after he uncovered himself, touched her with out permission, and supplied to pay her for intercourse, she was full of tension.”
Then the job began to go away, in a sample any waitress or different hourly employee who’s been the sufferer of misconduct will acknowledge:
“She figured issues might simply return to regular and she or he would faux like nothing occurred. Nevertheless, she began to really feel as if she was receiving some kind of retaliation the place her shifts had been in the reduction of, and she or he was beginning to really feel actually burdened.”
The attendant (whose id Insider says they’ve however are holding secret to guard a sufferer of sexual misconduct) felt like “she was being pushed out and punished for refusing to prostitute herself.” Ultimately, in 2018, she employed a lawyer and filed a criticism by SpaceX’s HR division. She informed her story, and the legal professional received the good friend’s sworn assertion as up to date corroboration.
However this story by no means noticed a courtroom, therefore us by no means listening to something about it.
She and Elon met with a mediator, and she or he was supplied a severance cost of $250k in change for a promise by no means to file a lawsuit over the declare. The written settlement consists of non-disclosure and non-disparagement clauses that stop her from telling this story to anybody else — or saying something in regards to the severance cost in any respect.
Yeah. It’s a hush cash cost.
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The good friend, nevertheless, is just not certain by the settlement. And after Elon began going off about “free speech” and daylight being “one of the best disinfectant,” she felt an obligation to return ahead. She stated:
“I completely felt a duty to return ahead with it, particularly now. He’s the richest man on this planet. Somebody with that stage of energy inflicting that form of hurt after which throwing some cash on the state of affairs, that’s not accountability. There are predators everywhere in the world. However when somebody is especially rich and highly effective, they actually have techniques which can be like a machine working for them, to set them up to have the ability to do no matter they need.”
Curiously, California — the place SpaceX relies — not permits using NDAs in settlements involving sexual harassment, discrimination, or assault.
As we stated, Insider adopted the foundations and reached out to Elon for remark. He emailed again asking for extra time to reply, telling them there’s “much more to this story.” He then argued:
“If I had been inclined to interact in sexual harassment, that is unlikely to be the primary time in my total 30-year profession that it involves gentle.”
Insider truly did give him an extension.
However after all, we all know what he did after that — he goes on-line and says he’s a goal of political assaults proper earlier than a damning piece comes out. He went exhausting pro-Republican and stated the boogeyman Democrats would come and get him for it. Hmm.. sounds oddly acquainted…
What do YOU take into consideration these accusations, Perezcious readers??
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