The US lawsuit claimed X agreed to pay Lemon at the least $1.5 million.
Former CNN host Don Lemon has filed a lawsuit towards Elon Musk months after a partnership with Musk’s social media platform X was terminated.
YoWithin the lawsuit filed Thursday in the US, Lemon mentioned X’s proprietor wrongfully terminated his contract, refused to pay him and used the media persona’s title to draw advertisers.
The lawsuit was filed in California Superior Court docket in San Francisco, a authorized submitting confirmed.
X ended his partnership with Lemon in March after saying Musk can be his first interview visitor.
“Their strategy was mainly ‘CNN, however on social media,’ which does not work,” Musk later mentioned in a put up on the platform, including that Lemon was welcome to construct an viewers on the platform.
Lemon, a well-liked primetime persona, was fired from CNN in April final 12 months after 17 years on the cable community following a short stint as co-host of a morning present.
X, previously Twitter, has struggled to retain advertisers amid a sequence of controversies since billionaire Musk purchased the corporate in 2022.
In January, the platform employed Lemon, former U.S. Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard and sports activities radio host Jim Rome as a part of an effort to extend video content material on the positioning and entice advertisers again to its platform.
The go well with claimed X agreed to pay Lemon at the least $1.5 million with extra incentive funds and a share of promoting income.
“This case is easy. X executives used Don to prop up their promoting gross sales pitch, then terminated their partnership and dragged Don’s title by way of the mud,” mentioned Lemon’s lawyer, Carney Shegerian.
