Where is the acknowledgment that an "incident" occurred? Again how do you know that he's not just referring to the settlement/legal drama?
This abrupt change in direction you're referring to is all based on your own projections re: his statement where you've seemingly made some assumption that his statement somehow implies that the claimed incident occurred.
So when he says there's "a lot more to this story." after being informed of the entire sexual misconduct story to be published by business insider you suspect that to mean he wanted to say more about the settlement/legal drama and actually the bit about the sexual misconduct wasn't up for contention...
This is not a quality argument you're making dowie, in fact it's terrible.
When Elon Musk was briefly willing to say more on the subject the more on the subject was definitely going to involve an explanation from him about the reason there was any grounds for any settlement to be made.
The abrupt change in direction to say it's all lies is an intervention by a third party, likely legal.
Oh and if it's actually lies there should be a libel suit basically instantly right? It's published for the world to see. Going to twitter to say it's a lie is not even close to going to the judge to say it's a lie.