Yes, the celebrity CEO had better lawyers

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Yes, the celebrity CEO had better lawyers, but it still felt like the fix was in during a recent battle.

Elon Musk

Vernon Unsworth – British cave explorer

Elon Musk did not defame cave rescuer in ‘pedo guy’ tweet, LA jury finds

LOS ANGELES — Elon Musk did not defame a British cave explorer when he called him “pedo guy” in an angry tweet, a Los Angeles jury found Friday.

Vernon Unsworth, who participated in the rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped for weeks in a Thailand cave last year, had angered the Tesla CEO by belittling his effort to help with the rescue as a “PR stunt.”

Musk said Unsworth’s comments in an interview with CNN were an unprovoked attack on his sincere and voluntary efforts to help in the rescue.

Musk had 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.

Musk, who said his stock in Tesla and SpaceX is worth about $20 billion, insisted in his testimony that the phrase he tweeted off-the-cuff “was obviously a flippant insult, and no one interpreted it to mean pedophile.”

A jury of five women and three men deliberated for less than an hour in the afternoon in U.S. District Court.

Jury foreman Joshua Jones said the panel decided that Unsworth’s lawyers spent too much time trying to appeal to their emotions and not concentrating on the evidence.

“The failure probably happened because they didn’t focus on the tweets,” Jones said after the verdict was announced. “I think they tried to get our emotions involved in it. In a court of law you have to prove your case, which they did not prove.”

Unsworth’s attorney suggested to the federal jury Friday that it award $190 million in damages to the cave explorer. – Source