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Back in 2022, Business Insider reported that Elon Musk<\/strong> had secretly fathered twins<\/a> with Shivon Zilis,<\/strong> a top executive at one of his companies. \u201cDoing my best to help the underpopulation crisis. A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far,\u201d he tweeted<\/a> at the time. \u201cMark my words, they are sadly true.\u201d An obsession with procreating aside, the news was fairly surprising at the time\u2014not only because it brought Musk\u2019s offspring headcount<\/a> 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 wasn\u2019t even the first employee Musk proposed reproducing with.<\/p>\n The Wall Street Journal<\/em> reported<\/a> on Tuesday, in a long story about Musk\u2019s \u201cboundary-blurring relationships with women at SpaceX,\u201d that in 2013, a woman who directly reported to the billionaire \u201calleged that Musk had asked her on multiple occasions to have his babies, according to people familiar with the allegations.\u201d 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,<\/em> she continued to work for SpaceX but the relationship with Musk \u201cdeteriorated.\u201d In addition to the baby business, people familiar with the matter also told the Journal<\/em> that Musk \u201cdenied the woman a raise and complained about her performance.\u201d She later left the company with a cash and stock exit package worth more than $1 million, according to the report.<\/p>\n Allegedly asking someone in his employ to bear his children is not the only bit of inappropriateness the Journal<\/em> alleged in its story. There was also this:<\/p>\n When\u00a0Elon Musk\u00a0personally 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. She\u2019d 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.<\/em><\/p>\n 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.\u00a0He 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 Musk\u2019s executive team, according to friends she told and to people familiar with her time at SpaceX. The woman left the company in 2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n In affidavits signed by the woman and provided to the Journal<\/em> by her lawyers\u2014who also happen to represent Musk\u2014the woman claimed that there was no \u201cromantic relationship\u201d with the SpaceX CEO while she was employed from 2017 to 2019, though she confirmed they\u2019d had a romantic relationship in the past.<\/p>\n In 2022, Business Insider reported<\/a> 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<\/a> the claims \u201cutterly untrue\u201c and proposed<\/a> the scandal be dubbed \u201cElongate.\u201d<\/p>\n In an equally bizarre anecdote, the Journal<\/em> also reported this week that a SpaceX employee who worked for both Musk and Gwynne Shotwell,<\/strong> the company\u2019s president, was accused by Shotwell of having an affair with the exec\u2019s husband after helping plan a surprise birthday party for her. Afterwards, Shotwell reportedly tried to push the woman out\u2014and then Musk \u201cinitiated a sexual relationship with the woman, who by that time was working directly for him alone,\u201d the woman reportedly told people close to her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n