Elon Musk gets no apology from caver who scoffed at ‘PR Stunt’


De Warrenne Pictures director Tom Waller (right) talking to actors for a scene of his film "The Cave" in Thailand. Vernon Unsworth was part of the story that gripped the world, determined divers racing time and the elements to rescue 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped for more than two weeks in a flooded cave deep inside a northern Thai mountain. - AP

WASHINGTON/BANGKOK: Elon Musk may find out as early on Friday (Dec 6) whether he’ll have to pay for a tweet fired off in anger disparaging a British cave expert following the rescue of football players in a Thai cave.

A jury of three men and five women in Los Angeles federal court has heard all the evidence in Vernon Unsworth’s defamation lawsuit over the tweet, in which Musk called the caver a "pedo guy.”

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