On Thursday evening, Insider released a report alleging that in 2018, SpaceX paid one of its flight attendants $250,000 as severance after the company’s CEO, Elon Musk, sexually harassed her.
According to the flight attendant and her friend, Musk exposed his penis, propositioned sex, and offered to buy her a horse as a bribe. The alleged incident took place in 2016, and while it’s not the first instance of sexual harassment at SpaceX, it’s the first public allegation of sexual misconduct against Elon Musk. The report comes after a rollercoaster month of headlines for Time magazine’s 2021 Person of the Year: poison pill threats, antitrust violation concerns, so, so many tweets, and a stalled plan to buy the entirety of Twitter.
