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Elon Musk challenges Johnny Depp to a ‘cage fight’ amid libel trial
SpaceX founder’s name has been mentioned repeatedly in Depp’s libel trial over a newspaper that described him as a ‘wife beater’
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Your support makes all the difference.Elon Musk has challenged Johnny Depp to a “cage fight”, while condemning the more “salacious” elements of Depp’s current libel trial.
The billionaire SpaceX mogul has been mentioned repeatedly through Depp’s defamation suit against The Sun’s publisher, News Group Newspapers, and its executive editor, Dan Wootton.
Depp’s legal team have alleged that Musk had an affair with ex-wife Amber Heard while she was married to Depp. Texts allegedly sent from Depp, in which he threatened to slice off Musk’s penis, were also read to the court.
“If Johnny wants a cage fight, just let me know,” Musk joked to The New York Times. He also denied many of the allegations in the trial that have mentioned his name.
“I definitely was not having an affair with Amber while she was married to Johnny, this is totally false,” Musk said. He also denied ever having group sex with Heard and the actor and model Cara Delevingne.
“We did not have the threesome, you know,” Musk insisted. “So I think people think these things are generally more salacious than they are.”
Musk advised Depp and Heard to stop fighting one another.
“For the two of them, I would just recommend that they bury the hatchet and move on,” he said.
This weekend, Musk was criticised by partner Grimes after he appeared to mock gender pronouns on Twitter.
“I love you but please turn off ur phone or give me a dall [sic],” Grimes tweeted in response. “I cannot support hate.”
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