Musk Faces Lawsuits for ‘Paedo’ Remark, Tesla Tweet

San Francisco/London: There are legal problems galore for Elon Musk as a cave diver who the tech billionaire baselessly called a ‘paedo guy’ is not the only one who has threatened to sue him. A short-seller is also suing Musk for his August 7 “misleading” tweet about taking Tesla private, the media reported. The cave diver, Vernon Unsworth, 63, said he would sue the Tesla boss for defamation in three countries - Thailand, Britain and the US, The Evening Standard reported on Thursday.

Unsworth, who lives with his girlfriend in Chiang Rai, Thailand, helped rescue 12 children and their football coach who got trapped in a cave. But he attracted Musk’s ire when he said that the tech billionaire’s mini-submarine theory for rescuing the boys had “absolutely no chance of working.” In a tweet in July, Musk had called Unsworth a “paedo”. But in an email to a journalist, Musk launched a fresh tirade against Unsworth, without providing any document to support his allegations, the Guardian reported on Wednesday. But Unsowrth is not the only one who wants to sue Musk. Activist short seller Andrew Left is suing Tesla and its CEO for violating federal securities laws, CNBC reported on Thursday. (IANS)