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Back in 2022, Business Insider reported that Elon Musk had secretly fathered twins with Shivon Zilis, a top executive at one of his companies. Doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis. A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far, he tweeted at the time. Mark my words, they are sadly true. An obsession with procreating aside, the news was fairly surprising at the timenot only because it brought Musks offspring headcount to near-double digits but because Zilis was one of his own employees, which is generally considered a no-no in the modern-day workplace. Yet, as it turns out, Zilis wasnt even the first employee Musk proposed reproducing with.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, in a long story about Musks boundary-blurring relationships with women at SpaceX, that in 2013, a woman who directly reported to the billionaire alleged that Musk had asked her on multiple occasions to have his babies, according to people familiar with the allegations. In contrast to Zilis, who took Musk up on his proposal after he reportedly offered his sperm to her, the other woman declined, and apparently had to do so more than once. After this, according to the Journal, she continued to work for SpaceX but the relationship with Musk deteriorated. In addition to the baby business, people familiar with the matter also told the Journal that Musk denied the woman a raise and complained about her performance. She later left the company with a cash and stock exit package worth more than $1 million, according to the report.

Allegedly asking someone in his employ to bear his children is not the only bit of inappropriateness the Journal alleged in its story. There was also this:

WhenElon Muskpersonally contacted a former SpaceX engineering intern to discuss a role on his executive staff in 2017, the woman spoke with excitement to her friends about a high-profile problem-solving role at the rocket company, a dream for someone a few years out of college. She and Musk had met years earlier during her internship, when she was still in college. Shed approached him with ideas for improving SpaceX. Her outreach had led to a date, which led to a kiss, and eventually sex, she told friends. The year after her internship, the billionaire had the fresh college graduate flown out to a resort in Sicily, before they ended things, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Musk, who is more than 20 years her senior, attempted to restart their relationship but she rejected his advance. They remained close as she tried to establish herself in the new job.He texted her often and invited her to come over to his Los Angeles mansion at night on multiple occasions. Sometimes she accepted his invitations, but friends said she told them at the time that his behavior made her job harder. She eventually moved off Musks executive team, according to friends she told and to people familiar with her time at SpaceX. The woman left the company in 2019.

In affidavits signed by the woman and provided to the Journal by her lawyerswho also happen to represent Muskthe woman claimed that there was no romantic relationship with the SpaceX CEO while she was employed from 2017 to 2019, though she confirmed theyd had a romantic relationship in the past.

In 2022, Business Insider reported that Musk allegedly exposed himself to a SpaceX flight attendant and offered to buy her a horse in exchange for sex acts. She reportedly said no, and the company allegedly reduced her shifts. According to Insider, SpaceX eventually agreed to paid the woman $250,000. Musk called the claims utterly untrue and proposed the scandal be dubbed Elongate.

In an equally bizarre anecdote, the Journal also reported this week that a SpaceX employee who worked for both Musk and Gwynne Shotwell, the companys president, was accused by Shotwell of having an affair with the execs husband after helping plan a surprise birthday party for her. Afterwards, Shotwell reportedly tried to push the woman outand then Musk initiated a sexual relationship with the woman, who by that time was working directly for him alone, the woman reportedly told people close to her.

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Elon Musk Reportedly Asked a SpaceX Employee, on Multiple Occasions, to Have His Babies - Vanity Fair