Elon Musk: pedo guy insult was 'not classy' but not meant literally

Billionaire entrepreneur admits he 'would say very little at all if I just said sense'

When Elon Musk took the stand on Tuesday, the question was whether he defamed a British cave explorer by calling him a "pedo guy", but at times it seemed the real issue was more fundamental - the fragility of male egos.

"This is a case about insults between two men," said Musk's attorney, Alex Spiro, in his opening statement to the jury in a federal courthouse in Los Angeles on the first day of the trial.