Damn she only got $250k?
Poor woman got cheated.
I'd gladly take $250k to not perform a sex act with Elon Musk.
Either way, everyone involved in this has WAY too much bias to take anything they at face value. Rich people can do shitty things, so sure, maybe it happened. On the other hand, lots of reporters who hate Musk would gladly jump at the chance to accuse him without any sort of verification or actual journalism.
This also comes one day before being accused, and one day after Musk was mocked as being special needs by a twitter employee. Either of those could be a reason Elon would announce a rejection of his previously held ideology.
If they have the paperwork for a payoff, you at least know that happened, but you don't know the reasoning and you likely never will. If they don't even have that, then they have almost nothing other than a secondhand story about a guy they hate. It might be true, and it might not. No one will probably ever actually know aside from Musk and his accuser. What would really be crazy is if the woman who went to the press is telling the full truth, but she was lied to by her friend. I guess that's another possibility.