From offering a horse for sex, to donating sperm, Elon Musk’s bizarre relation with female SpaceX staff

Former employees of SpaceX have filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk, accusing the tech billionaire of sexual harassment during their tenure at the aerospace company.

This lawsuit has brought to light several alleged incidents of sexual abuse involving Musk, including one where a woman alleged that Musk showed his genital and offered her a horse in return for engaging in sex acts with him after she gave him a massage during a flight.

As per a report in the Wall Street Journal, a woman working as a flight attendant on one of the flights that Musk took for SpaceX, alleged that the billionaire CEO offered her a horse in return for sexual favours and after she refused to do so, the company cut her shifts.

Musk refuted the flight attendant’s allegations, calling them “utterly untrue". The SpaceX CEO even went on to add on social media that the scandal should be called “Elongate”.

According to the report, Musk denied having a flight attendant on his plane. However, he had used flight attendants in the past, including in 2016, which coincides with the time period being referred to by the woman.

Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s president and chief operating officer, defended Musk in a companywide email following the news report. She wrote, “Personally, I believe the allegations to be false; not because I work for Elon, but because I have worked closely with him for 20 years and never seen nor heard anything resembling these allegations.”

Another woman, who reported directly to Musk, alleged that he had repeatedly asked her to have his babies. Musk, a father of at least 10 children, has often spoken about the world facing an underpopulation crisis and the need for people with high IQs to procreate. “If people don’t have more children, civilisation is going to crumble. Mark my words,” he said in 2021, the same year he had children with one of his employees.

Shivon Zilis & Musk’s encouragement

Shivon Zilis, an executive at Musk’s Neuralink BCI company, shares twins with him. Zilis has stated that Musk encouraged her to have children and offered to be the sperm donor. “I can’t possibly think of genes I would prefer for my children,” Zilis is quoted as saying in “Elon Musk,” a biography by author Walter Isaacson.

A woman also claimed to have had a month-long sexual relationship with Musk in 2014 while she worked directly with him. The tryst, however, ended badly. She would go on to leave the company and sign an agreement which stopped her from discussing the work she did for Musk.