"They encouraged her to get licensed as a masseuse, but on her own time, on her own dime," the friend said.
According to the friend, the flight attendant was encouraged by her superiors to purchase her own professional massage training for her sessions with Musk. SpaceX places a special emphasis on massages, going so far as to employ in-house massage therapists as a perk for executives.
The living room inside a Gulfstream G650ER like the one used by Musk.Ĭourtesy of Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation "However, she started to feel as if she was receiving some sort of retaliation where her shifts were cut back, and she was starting to feel really stressed."Įventually, the declaration says, the attendant felt "she was being pushed out and punished for refusing to prostitute herself." "She figured things could just go back to normal and she would pretend like nothing happened," the friend told Insider.
"But after he exposed himself, touched her without permission, and offered to pay her for sex, she was full of anxiety." Musk as a person to look up to," the declaration says. The flight attendant told her friend that work began to dry up after she refused Musk's advances. The friend described the attendant as distraught and visibly shaken.
The friend said that the attendant told her about the misconduct while they were on a hike together shortly after the London trip. "Punished for refusing to prostitute herself" And he basically tried to bribe her to perform some sort of sexual favor." "And he started propositioning her, like he touched her thigh and told her he would buy her a horse. "He whipped out his penis, it was erect," the friend said, describing the allegations. Insider is also aware of the flight attendant's identity, but is not naming her because she has claimed to be a victim of sexual misconduct. She spoke on the condition of anonymity, citing fears for her personal safety, but Insider is aware of her identity. In an interview with Insider, the friend described the attendant's allegations in more detail. "She is not going to perform sexual favors for money or gifts." The incident occurred during a flight to London. The attendant "is not for sale," the friend's declaration said. The attendant, who rides horses, declined and continued with the massage without engaging in any sexual conduct. When she arrived, the attendant found that Musk "was completely naked except for a sheet covering the lower half of his body." During the massage, the declaration says, Musk "exposed his genitals" and then "touched her and offered to buy her a horse if she would 'do more,' referring to the performance of sex acts." The flight attendant told her friend that the billionaire SpaceX and Tesla founder asked her to come to his room during a flight in late 2016 "for a full body massage," the declaration says.
It was during one such massage in a private cabin on Musk's Gulfstream G650ER, she told the friend, that Musk propositioned her.Īn allegation that Musk offered a horse in exchange for an erotic massage The details in this story are drawn from the declaration as well as other documents, including email correspondence and other records shared with Insider by the friend.Īccording to the declaration, the attendant confided to the friend that after taking the flight attendant job, she was encouraged to get licensed as a masseuse so that she could give Musk massages.
The incident, which took place in 2016, is alleged in a declaration signed by a friend of the attendant and prepared in support of her claim. She accused Musk of exposing his erect penis to her, rubbing her leg without consent, and offering to buy her a horse in exchange for an erotic massage, according to interviews and documents obtained by Insider. The attendant worked as a member of the cabin crew on a contract basis for SpaceX's corporate jet fleet. SpaceX, the aerospace firm founded by Elon Musk, the world's wealthiest man, paid a flight attendant $250,000 to settle a sexual misconduct claim against Musk in 2018, Insider has learned.