Billionaire Elon Musk ‘had sex with SpaceX employee who started as an intern and asked another woman at the company to have his babies’
- Wall St Journal claims 52-year-old Musk was involved with an intern who was 20 years younger
Elon Musk had sexual relations with a SpaceX director and a former intern, and asks another staff member to have his babies, it is alleged.
These are the latest unflattering posts about the tech billionaire’s personal life, accusing him of crossing boundaries at work.
The Wall St Journal claims that Musk, 52, was involved with an intern 20 years his junior and tried to rekindle the romance when she formally joined the company.
She is said to have first met Musk in early 2010, while still in college, after contacting him about improving SpaceX.
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of Twitter, gestures while attending the Viva Technology conference in June 2023
Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s chief operating officer, said the Journal’s reporting painted a “completely misleading story” (a spacecraft launched by SpaceX, Musk’s company)
He flew her to Sicily Italywhere he attended an exclusive Googling conference.
In 2017, Musk reached out again to offer the woman a full-time position at SpaceX, where she would identify problems at the company. The Journal alleged that he invited her for drinks and touched her breasts.
He would have said, ‘Oh, I’m so bad. I shouldn’t be doing this’.
In an affidavit the woman provided to the Journal, she says she rejected his advances. But one of her friends said he would still “text her a lot” and once invited her to his house.
In the intern’s affidavit, she said there was no “romantic relationship” during her time at SpaceX and that he was never “predatory.”
Musk is also accused of repeatedly asking another female employee to have children with him before she received a £780,000 payout and left the company in 2013.
It is additionally alleged that Mr Musk dated a female SpaceX executive in 2014 when he was separated, but not divorced at the time, from current ex-wife Talulah Riley.
He approached the woman, who worked directly for him and worked seventeen hours a day.
Mr Musk reportedly asked her to join him for drinks at his Bel-Air mansion and praised her for having “beauty and brains”.
Elon Musk attends the Viva Technology conference at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris in 2023
The Wall St Journal claims that Musk, 52, was involved with an intern 20 years his junior
The Journal reports they had sex and the next morning he promised the woman Tesla stock. But she would begin to settle in and negotiated a £66,000 exit package from SpaceX.
The three charges follow claims that Musk, who is worth at least £160 billion, propositioned a flight attendant for sex in 2016 by offering to buy her a horse.
She was one of several former employees who said Mr. Musk — who founded Tesla and SpaceX and now owns X — made strides toward them or gave them unnecessary attention.
Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s chief operating officer, said the Journal’s reporting painted a “completely misleading story.” Musk’s attorney Alex Spiro did not respond to a request for comment.
