Musk threatens to sue documentary maker

Elon Musk's lawyers put the makers of a new four-hour documentary about the multibillionaire on formal legal notice days before its premiere, warning that the film defames him.
The film premiered last week at the Venice Film Festival to a lengthy standing ovation and strong reviews.
Alex Gibney traces the career and life of the South Africa-born Musk from dot-com entrepreneur in Silicon Valley in the early 2000s to becoming the world's first trillionaire.
It also delves into his personal life, including his difficult childhood and the 14 known children he has fathered with a series of women.
Trade bible Variety called it a 'lacerating portrait', while Deadline said the 'damning' film had 'thrashed' Musk as 'petty, narcissistic, megalomaniacal, cruel'.
The letter from attorney Alex Spiro, addressed to a producer at Alex Gibney's Jigsaw Productions, accuses the Oscar-winning documentarian of building 'Musk' around a predetermined conclusion.
It also says Gibney refused to fact-check the film with the world's richest man.
'This project did not begin as an inquiry. It began with a conclusion', Spiro wrote.
Jigsaw hit back in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, saying scrutiny of powerful public figures is protected by the First Amendment.
This was something all Americans should defend, 'including the associates of Elon Musk, who has proclaimed himself to be a 'free speech absolutist', the statement added.
Musk has spent several days attacking Gibney on X, the platform he owns, calling the film a 'hit piece that misses' and dismissing it as boring. — AFP