Musk's first explanation about the libel was this.
But that surely does not hold much water considering he went on to admit that one of his aides was instructed to hire a private detective at a cost of more than US$50,000 to conduct an investigation of Unsworth on Musk’s behalf.“By referring to Mr Unsworth as ‘pedo guy,’ I did not intend to convey any facts or imply that Unsworth had engaged in acts of pedophilia,” Musk said in a court filing on Monday.
“Pedo guy was a common insult used in South Africa when I was growing up. It is synonymous with ‘creepy old man’ and is used to insult a person’s appearance and demeanor, not accuse a person of pedophila.”
“The investigator learned that Mr Unsworth frequented Pattaya beach which is well known for prostitution and sex tourism, and that Mr Unsworth was unpopular at the rescue site because other rescue workers thought that he was ‘creepy", Musk’s lawyers said in the filing.
The trial is scheduled for December 2.“The investigator reported that Mr Unsworth was a fixture in Pattaya Beach, Thailand – a locale notorious for prostitution and child trafficking, that he had a taste for young Thai girls, that he whoremongered his way through the go-go bars of Thailand, that his only friends were his ‘sexpat’ peers, and that he married his Thai wife when she was a teenager, after starting a relationship when she was a young girl,” the response from Musk’s lawyers reads.
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