The Wall Street Journal has published an article attempting to ‘Me Too’ the South African tech billionaire Elon Musk, who recently denounced Donald Trump’s sham conviction in Manhattan as politically motivated.
The WSJ claims it spoke to “more than four dozen people, including former employees, people familiar with Musk’s interactions with female subordinates and friends and family of the women” involved in its story. However, it could only produce three new “victims,” at least one of whom wanted no part in the “scoop.”
The newspaper described the first “victim” as a SpaceX intern turned executive team member who had a consensual sexual relationship with Musk. The report concedes “she broke off the relationship with Musk [and] they remained friends.”
The WSJ appears to have relied on “friends” of the former employee to produce her story, despite admitting she “told friends not to speak with Journal reporters and later said that she didn’t want to be part of an article, following outreach from the Journal.”
A second supposed victim “alleged that Musk had asked her on multiple occasions to have his babies” during severance negotiations, after he had “denied [her] a raise and complained about her performance.”
The third supposed victim, like the former intern who did not want to be part of the WSJ story, had a consensual sexual relationship with Musk. However, months later was “telling her friends that she felt used” because she wanted “more than drinks at his house and sex.”
Musk, who was going through a messy divorce at the time of their tryst, said she “insisted on coming to my house to sleep with me when I was just sad and tired and wanted to be alone.” She is also alleged to have had an affair with an executive’s husband.
