New court filings reveal that Elon Musk's family office spent tens of thousands on a private investigator to dig up details about Thai cave rescue hero Vernon Unsworth, after Musk called him a 'pedo' on Twitter.
After calling him a "pedo guy," Elon Musk is facing a defamation lawsuit in the U.S. brought by the Thai cave rescue hero Vernon Unsworth.
British caver Vern Unsworth talks during Reuters interview at a hotel, in the northern province of Chiang Rai, Thailand, July 17, 2018.and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says he once worried that British cave diver Vernon Unsworth might be "another Jeffrey Epstein." The deposition came out as Musk and his lawyers asked a judge to dismiss the defamation case Unsworth brought against Musk for previous comments calling him a "pedo guy.
"And I was like, well, what if this is a real situation? What if what we have here is another Jeffrey Epstein. We should, you know -- I have this -- I am told this information. I don't know if it is true. But what if we have another Jeffrey Epstein on our hands? And what if he uses whatever celebrity he gains from this cave rescue to shield his bad deeds? This would be terrible."
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