Elon Musk

Elon Musk depicted as liar, visionary in Tesla tweet trial

Lawyers in a trial focused on a Tesla buyout that never happened depicted Elon Musk as either a liar who jeopardized people's savings or a visionary. More

January 18, 2023

Musk testifies in lawsuit over Tesla compensation package

Elon Musk is defending himself in a Tesla shareholder suit challenging a compensation package he was awarded that's potentially worth over $55 billion. More

November 16, 2022

Elon Musk pay package at Tesla challenged in court

In a Delaware courtroom, Tesla shareholders are challenging a compensation plan for CEO Elon Musk potentially worth more than $55 billion. More

November 14, 2022

Musk faces deposition with Twitter ahead of October trial

Elon Musk will spend the next few days answering Twitter lawyers' questions before a trial determines whether he must honor his $44 billion agreement. More

September 26, 2022

Judge: Musk can use Twitter whistleblower but not delay case

Elon Musk will be able to include new evidence from a Twitter whistleblower as he fights to get out of his $44 billion deal to buy the company. More

September 7, 2022

Elon Musk subpoenas Twitter whistleblower ahead of trial

Former Twitter executive Peiter Zatko — also known by his hacker handle “Mudge” — received a subpoena from Elon Musk’s team. More

August 29, 2022

Musk subpoenas former Twitter CEO and friend Jack Dorsey

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has subpoenaed his friend and former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey as part of an effort to back out of his $44 billion agreement to acquire the company Dorsey helped found. More

August 22, 2022

Twitter-Musk takeover dispute heading for an October trial

Tesla CEO Elon Musk lost his fight to delay Twitter’s lawsuit against him as a Delaware judge set an October trial. More

July 19, 2022

EXPLAINER: What happens next in the Musk-Twitter saga?

Twitter claims in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Delaware that Musk's “outlandish” and “bad faith” actions have caused the social media platform irreparable harm and sunk its stock price. More

July 13, 2022

Twitter sues to force Musk to complete his $44B acquisition

Twitter sued Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday, trying to force him to complete his $44 billion takeover of the social media company More

July 12, 2022

Musk abandons deal to buy Twitter; company says it will sue

Elon Musk announced that he will abandon his $44 billion offer to buy Twitter after the company failed to provide enough information about the number of fake accounts. Twitter fired back, saying it would sue the Tesla CEO to uphold the deal. More

July 8, 2022

Elon Musk’s daughter granted legal name, gender change

A California judge has approved a request by Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s adult daughter to change her name and gender on her birth certificate. More

June 23, 2022

Musk denies sexual misconduct allegation by flight attendant

A report by Business Insider said SpaceX paid the woman $250,000 in severance in 2018 in exchange for her agreeing not to file a lawsuit over her claim. More

May 20, 2022

Judge rejects gag order in suit over 2018 Elon Musk tweets

A federal judge in California has rejected a request from shareholders in a lawsuit to force Elon Musk stop talking about his 2018 tweets in which he said he had the funding to make Tesla a private company. More

April 20, 2022

Tesla stockholders ask judge to silence Musk in fraud case

A group of Tesla shareholders suing CEO Elon Musk over some 2018 tweets about taking the company private is asking a federal judge to order Musk to stop commenting on the case. More

April 18, 2022

Musk to opposing lawyer: ‘I think you are a bad human being’

By PAUL WISEMAN and TOM KRISHER AP Business Writers WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Tesla founder Elon Musk took to a witness stand Monday to defend his company’s 2016 acquisition of a troubled company called SolarCity against a lawsuit that claims he’s to blame for a deal that was rife with conflicts of interest and never […] More

July 12, 2021

Elon Musk in court dances around meaning of ‘pedo guy’ tweet

Tesla CEO Elon Musk denied that he meant to call a British cave diver, Vernon Unsworth, a pedophile when he dubbed him "pedo guy" on social media. More

December 4, 2019

Tesla CEO Musk facing defamation trial for ‘pedo guy’ tweet

  By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Elon Musk is going on trial Tuesday for his troublesome tweets in a defamation case pitting the billionaire against a British diver he allegedly branded a pedophile. The Tesla CEO will be called to testify early in the case in Los Angeles federal court to […] More

December 3, 2019