Multimillionaire anti-aging fanatic Bryan Johnson used nondisclosure agreements to silence employees about his weird conduct — corresponding to strolling round bare across the workplace and discussing his “sexual activities, including erections,” based on a bombshell report.
Johnson spends a whopping $2 million yearly on his over-the-top routine – together with 54 every day tablets and dietary supplements, a nighttime erection tracker, shock remedy and blood transfusions from his then-17-year-old son – making the audacious declare that it has reversed his age by 5.1 years.
His unorthodox well being obsession has gained a following for his “Don’t Die” faith, setting him as much as launch his well being start-up Blueprint and a starring function in a latest Netflix documentary.
However behind the scenes, the 47-year-old former Mormon missionary was pressuring staff, distributors and contract employees at his startup Blueprint, in addition to his sexual companions, into signing restrictive confidentiality agreements, based on The New York Instances.
Quickly after Johnson made his thousands and thousands from the sale of his funds agency Braintree to PayPal in 2013, he divorced his spouse, employed prostitutes and experimented with acid and psychedelics like DMT, the outlet reported after interviewing 30 individuals for its expose.
Johnson has the chemical construction of DMT tattooed on his arm.
In 2016, he based Kernel, a mind tech start-up. He had turned down a suggestion to type the same firm with Tesla founder Elon Musk, who ended up launching Neuralink, based on the report.
As Musk’s star-power grew, Johnson grew extra centered on his personal picture, questioning why he was not getting as a lot publicity because the Tesla mogul and began to lean extra closely on the NDAs, former associates and staff informed the Instances.
As of final yr, the agreements had been 20 pages lengthy with a variety of restrictions, like protecting confidential “any nonpublic information regarding Bryan’s home, office, personal effects in his home or office, any spaces rented or owned by Bryan, any vehicles/planes/automobiles/boats/other methods of transportation that are not publicly accessible,” based on a duplicate reviewed by the Instances.
Staff typically had to enroll to a few separate paperwork, the Instances stated.
One was an uncommon “opt-in” doc wherein staffers needed to say they had been comfy with Johnson sporting “little and sometimes no clothing/no underwear” and with listening to “discussions of sexual activities, including erections,” based on a duplicate considered by the Instances.
Additionally they needed to agree that his conduct was not “unwelcome, offensive, humiliating, hostile, triggering, unprofessional or abusive,” based on the report.
In a put up on X, Johnson stated the opt-in doc was “fair to all concerned and is in everyone’s best interest.”
Johnson typically walked round sporting little clothes through the workday, and flirted with Blueprint’s largely feminine workers, sources informed The Instances.
They stated they felt they might not communicate up due to the agreements.
A consultant for Johnson didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Jamie Contento, who was Johnson’s private assistant, left Blueprint final yr and informed the Instances she emailed human assets to boost issues concerning the work atmosphere.
She is one in every of no less than three of Johnson’s former staff – together with his former fiancée – to file complaints with the Nationwide Labor Relations Board about his confidentiality agreements.
Taryn Southern, Johnson’s former fiancée and worker at Kernel, had beforehand raised issues, submitting a 2021 lawsuit accusing Johnson of firing her from the corporate after breaking apart together with her whereas she had Stage 3 breast most cancers.
Within the go well with, Southern alleged Johnson pushed her to signal an NDA that included a $500,000 penalty every time she broke the confidentiality guidelines.
She stated Johnson had damaged a promise to pay her $150,000 in trade for lease and shifting out of their dwelling after their cut up, based on the Instances.
However Johnson moved the lawsuit to arbitration and in 2023, it was dominated that Southern needed to adjust to the settlement, which meant she couldn’t sue him.
Johnson countersued for authorized charges – and Southern was ordered to pay him greater than $584,000.
The well being fanatic posted a YouTube video detailing the ordeal, and later made a 2,400 phrase put up on X claiming his well being routine had saved Southern from her most cancers, and that he feared she would kill him with scissors.
Johnson had stated in his YouTube video that he would arrange a belief so funds from “his accuser” would go towards her medical charges. He opened the belief final yr, however closed it with out placing any cash into it, based on the Instances.
The report additionally claims statistics about Johnson’s well being had been cherry-picked, like him reversing getting older by 5.1 years – and that outcomes from different research confirmed his organic age had truly elevated as a lot as 10 years, based on blood take a look at outcomes considered by the Instances.
In February, Johnson had warned the Instances was getting ready a success piece on him “reviving accusations” from Southern “that were twice rejected by two legal forums, repackaging them for clicks.”
