Elon Musk is said to have repeatedly asked a SpaceX employee to “have a baby”

Back in 2022, Business Insider reported that Elon Musk was secret Twins with Shivon Zilis, a top executive at one of his companies. “Do your best to help the low population crisis. Falling birth rates are the greatest danger that civilization has faced to date.” tweeted at that time. “Mark my words, they are sadly true.” Obsession with fertility aside, the news was quite surprising at the time – not least because it gave Musk number of descendants amounting to nearly double digits but since Zilis is one of his own employees, this is often considered taboo in the modern workplace. As it turns out, however, Zilis wasn’t even the first employee Musk offered to work with.

Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, in a lengthy story about “Musk’s boundary-blurring relationships with women at SpaceX,” in 2013, a woman who reported directly to the billionaire “alleged that Musk had sexually abused her. once asked her to bear his children, according to people familiar with the allegations.” In contrast to Zilis, who accepted Musk’s proposal after he reportedly offered his sperm to her, the other woman refused and apparently had to do so multiple times. Later, follow magazine, she continued to work for SpaceX but her relationship with Musk “deteriorated.” In addition to the baby business, people familiar with the matter also said. magazine that Musk “refused the woman a raise and complained about her performance.” She then left the company with a cash and stock withdrawal package worth more than $1 million, according to the report.

Being accused of asking your employee to have a baby isn’t the only inappropriate behavior magazine alleged in its story. There’s also this:

When Elon Musk personally reached out to a former SpaceX technical intern to discuss a role on his executive team in 2017, the woman excitedly told friends about the role. high-level problem solving at a rocket company, a dream for someone for several years. out of university. She and Musk met years ago during her internship, when she was still in college. She approached him with ideas to improve SpaceX. She told friends that her approach led to a date, a kiss and eventually sex. A year after the internship, the billionaire took the recent college graduate to a resort in Sicily before they called it quits, according to documents reviewed by Wall Street Journal.

Musk, who is 20 years older than her, tried to restart their relationship but she rejected his advances. They remained close as she tried to settle into her new job. He often texted her and invited her to his mansion in Los Angeles at night many times. Sometimes she accepted his invitations, but friends said she told them at the time that his behavior made her job more difficult. She eventually left Musk’s executive team, according to friends she told and those familiar with her time at SpaceX. The woman left the company in 2019.

In the affidavit signed by the woman and provided to magazine by her attorney — who also represents Musk — the woman claimed that there was no “romantic relationship” with the SpaceX CEO while she worked from 2017 to 2019, even though she He confirmed that they had a romantic relationship in the past.

In 2022, Business Insider reported that Musk allegedly approached a SpaceX flight attendant and offered to buy her a horse in exchange for sexual favors. According to reports, she said no and the company allegedly reduced her shifts. According to Insider, SpaceX eventually agreed to pay this woman $250,000. musk call statements that are “completely false” and propose The scandal was dubbed “The Lasting.”

In an equally strange anecdote, magazine also reported this week that a SpaceX employee worked for both Musk and Gwynne Shotwell, company president, was accused by Shotwell of having an affair with the CEO’s husband after helping organize a surprise birthday party for her. Shotwell then allegedly tried to push the woman out — and then Musk “began to have sex with the woman, who at the time was working directly for him alone,” who This woman told people close to her.