Elon Musk's 'pedo guy' tweet defamed British diver, lawyer says as U.S. trial starts
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Elon Musk ruined what should have been a highlight of a British diver's life by falsely accusing him of being a pedophile, a lawyer for the diver said on Tuesday as the defamation trial against Tesla Inc's chief executive got under way.Musk was expected to testify later in the day in the trial over whether he harmed Vernon Unsworth's reputation by calling him "pedo guy" on Twitter.Unsworth sued Musk in September 2018, two months after playing a leading role in the rescue..