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Musk denies he sexually harassed flight attendant on private jet

Elon Musk looks at his mobile phone at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. January 19, 2020. [Reuters]

Billionaire Elon Musk took to Twitter late on Thursday to denounce "utterly untrue" claims in a news report that he had sexually harassed a flight attendant on a private jet in 2016.

Business Insider reported earlier on Thursday that Musk's SpaceX paid $250,000 in 2018 to settle a sexual harassment claim from an unnamed private jet flight attendant who accused Musk of exposing himself to her.

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