Former CNN host Don Lemon has filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk as well as X Corp and X executives, accusing them of fraud, negligent misrepresentation, and breach of contract, among other things. The lawsuit claimed that Lemon suffered economic damages as well as "psychological and emotional distress, humiliation, and mental and physical pain and anguish." He has demanded a jury trial in the case.
The lawsuit, filed in the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of San Francsico, stated that "Amid Defendants ongoing struggle to retain advertisers, Defendants sought to affiliate with reputable figures whose name, likeness and reputation they could use to piggyback off of to retain advertisers. Lemon was a top prospect for X, and thus, Defendants saw an opportunity and sought to reach an exclusive partnership deal with Lemon, following his termination at CNN, at a time when Lemon was vulnerable."
The lawsuit claimed that Lemon had expressed "reservations" about the exclusive partnership with X "given the ongoing controversies surrounding the X platform," but the defendants went on to "induce Lemon through false promises and representations about what would be expected of them and how much Lemon would be compensated to get him to agree, all while concealing material facts from Lemon."