Musk to testify in own defence in defamation trial, his lawyer says | Malay Mail

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LOS ANGELES, Nov 26 — Tesla Inc's chief executive, Elon Musk, will testify in his own defence against a defamation lawsuit brought by a British cave explorer, Musk's lawyer said yesterday in US District Court in Los Angeles. Vernon Unsworth is suing Musk for calling him a “pedo guy.” Musk...

Tuesday, 26 Nov 2019 01:03 PM MYT

Vernon Unsworth is suing Musk for calling him a “pedo guy.” Musk posted the tweet after Unsworth accused Musk in a CNN interview of grandstanding by offering to help Unsworth's diving team rescue 12 boys and their soccer coach from a Thailand cave in July 2018. Unsworth will also testify, said his attorney, L. Lin Wood. He will provide evidence of damages by “talking about his worries, his anxieties, his concern by being branded a pedophile,” Wood told the court.

Musk had argued that Unsworth became a public figure because of his help with the high-profile rescue and needed to prove “actual malice.”

 

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