Former CNN anchor Don Lemon is suing billionaire Elon Musk, alleging the tech billionaire canceled a deal between them following a tense interview.
Lemon filed the lawsuit Thursday towards Musk and X, previously Twitter, alleging Musk agreed to pay Lemon $1.5 million yearly to provide unique movies on the platform earlier than backing out, The New York Occasions reported.
“Nice alternative concept is a neo-Nazi trope,” Lemon informed Musk within the interview. “It’s within the neo-Nazi manifesto… It’s referenced by the Buffalo mass shooter in his manifesto, the place 10 Black folks have been murdered in Buffalo. It’s the precise title of the Christchurch shooter’s manifesto. Fifty-one folks within the Muslim mosque have been murdered.”
Musk responded, “If I quote one thing, that doesn’t imply I agree with every part in it. It’s simply one thing that I need… I feel… that is one thing folks ought to contemplate.”
Lemon didn’t signal a contract over the settlement, alleging Musk informed him in a telephone name there can be no have to “fill out paperwork,” in response to the lawsuit.
“X executives used Don to prop up their promoting gross sales pitch,” Carney Shegerian, a lawyer for Lemon, stated in an announcement to the Occasions, “then canceled their partnership and dragged Don’s title via the mud,”