Musk's lawyer told the jury the tweet was an insult provoked by Unsworth and did not rise to the level of defamation. Attorney Alex Spiro said Unsworth also failed to show actual damages.
Unsworth had ridiculed Musk’s effort to help in the rescue by having engineers at his companies, including Space X and The Boring Co., develop a mini-submarine to transport the boys. Despite working around the clock to build the sub, Musk arrived in Thailand late in the rescue effort and the craft was never used.
In his closing argument, Wood called Musk a “billionaire bully” who lied when he claimed “pedo guy” only means “creepy old man” and said his apologies to Unsworth were insincere.Unsworth testified that he had to sue Musk for defamation because if he didn't, the allegation would seem true. Spiro mocked Unsworth's claims that he had been shamed and humiliated and that the tweet effectively sentenced him to a life sentence without parole.
It's certainly not a compliment. Of course, few people KNOW the actual definition of 'pedophile.' They don't even know a lectern from a podium.
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I'm sorry, this pedo label has stuck for me. I can't get the association out if my head. Poor guy, I'll now always think of him as a pedo and also a bit greedy, having sought $190m in damages. $2m would have been plenty.
In Spanish, calling someone 'Pedo guy' is equivalent to calling them an 'old fart'. 'Pedo' means fart in Spanish. Much to do about nothing.
Now where that bum will find money to pay for really expensive US attorney? So far he's broke livin' on tips from tourists.
Lucky
Your sister, aka cnbc will be quite disappointed.
“Kings and queens and prime ministers don't stand next to pedophiles.”
Congrats elonmusk. I for one appreciate you keeping it real.
Like hell he didn’t.
man I wish I could be a do-nothing billionaire. I would have so much more fun that Elon would!
Yeah he did. But no one cares about the cave explorer guy. Literally everyone in America would have sued Musk for it. I personally would have sued him for a Tesla or two.
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