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Elon Musk has reportedly asked a SpaceX employee who reports to him to have a child.
The Wall Street Journal The paper, citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter, said the employee left the company in 2013 and later accused Musk of asking her multiple times to have children.
The Wall Street Journal reported that sources said the women rejected their offers, which ultimately led to a deterioration in their working relationships with Musk, and that he also refused to give them raises.
SpaceX employees received severance packages of more than $1 million when they left the company, the Journal reported, citing a person familiar with the agreements.
Elon Musk and Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment outside of regular working hours.
Musk is a well-known advocate of the pro-natal movement, which fears that a falling birth rate will lead to the collapse of global civilization. The billionaire is known to have 10 children and has previously said he is doing his best to save the world from the underpopulation crisis.
The Tesla CEO also has a child with another employee, Neuralink executive Sivon Gillis.
Business Insider previously reported that Musk gave birth to twins with Gillis in 2021, and she told Musk biographer Walter Isaacson that the SpaceX founder encouraged her to have children and offered to donate his sperm.
The Wall Street Journal article also reported allegations that Musk had a brief relationship with a former summer intern at SpaceX, as well as a sexual relationship with another employee in 2014.
This is not the first time SpaceX and Musk have come under scrutiny over how they treat female employees.
According to a civil rights complaint reported by Bloomberg earlier this year, seven former employees accused SpaceX executives of joking about sexual harassment and firing employees who raised concerns, and in 2021, another former SpaceX engineer published an essay accusing the company of fostering an environment that was “riddled with sexism.”
BI also previously reported that SpaceX paid a flight attendant $250,000 in 2018 to settle sexual misconduct allegations against Musk.
According to interviews and documents obtained by BI, a flight attendant working on the company’s private jets accused Musk of stripping naked for her and offering to buy her a horse in exchange for an erotic massage.
Musk denied the allegations, calling them “completely false,” and later responded to YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley on Twitter with a joke.