WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former CNN anchor Don Lemon sued Elon Musk on Thursday, saying that the billionaire entrepreneur refused to pay him after a partnership with the X social media platform acquired shelved.
The lawsuit was filed in California Superior Courtroom in San Francisco, a authorized submitting confirmed.
X canceled its partnership with Lemon in March after he mentioned Musk could be his first visitor in an interview.
“His method was mainly simply ‘CNN, however on social media’, which does not work,” Musk later mentioned in a put up on the platform, including that Lemon was welcome to construct viewership on the platform.
Lemon, a well-liked prime-time character, was fired from CNN in April final yr after 17 years on the cable tv community after a brief tenure as morning present co-host.
(Reporting by Ismail Shakil, Doina Chiacu and Akash Sriram; Modifying by Maju Samuel)