LOS ANGELES: Tesla founder Elon Musk said in a court filing on Monday that he did not mean to accuse a British caver of paedophilia when he referred to him as"pedo guy" in a tweet.Musk, who is being sued for defamation in Los Angeles by Vernon Unsworth, who helped in the dramatic rescue of 12 boys trapped in an underwater cave in Thailand last year, claimed the term"pedo guy" was a common insult used in South Africa when he was growing up.
"I did not intend to accuse Mr Unsworth of engaging in acts of paedophilia," he added."In response to his insults in the CNN interview, I meant to insult him back by expressing my opinion that he seemed like a creepy old man."The dispute between the two men erupted after Unsworth said a miniature submarine Musk sent to Thailand to help with the rescue efforts would have been ineffective and was nothing more than a"PR stunt".
Additionally, Musk says, the investigator"reported that Mr Unsworth associated with Europeans who engage in improper sexual conduct in Thailand and had been travelling to Thailand since the 1980s."He claimed the 64-year-old caver married his Thai wife when she was a teenager and that the investigator learned that he frequented Pattaya Beach"which is well known for prostitution and sex tourism".
"Musk's motion is as offensive to the truth and the sworn testimony developed in this case as was his initial false and heinous accusation of paedophilia," Wood told AFP in an email.
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