In recent years, Alex Spiro has become one of the best-known trial lawyers in the country—with a reputation for protecting the rich and famous from the consequences of their worst decisions.
In the summer of 2018, four years before he bought Twitter, the entrepreneur Elon Musk was facing legal consequences for two of his more reckless forays on the social-media platform. A boys’ soccer team in Thailand had been trapped in a flooded cave for more than two weeks, and a caver involved in the rescue said on CNN that a bespoke submarine Musk had sent to save the children was a “PR stunt.
Spiro represented Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots, who was accused of solicitation at the Orchids of Asia massage parlor in Jupiter, Florida . He defended the twenty-two-year-old son of the industrialist Peter Brant and the supermodel Stephanie Seymour when the young man, inebriated at J.F.K. Airport, punched a Port Authority police officer .
The private investigator, it turned out, was a convicted con man, and the allegations that Musk had passed along to BuzzFeed were false. Musk would later describe the e-mail to Mac as “one of the dumbest things I’ve ever done.” Still, when Unsworth filed a defamation suit, Musk was unwilling to settle. He wanted to go to trial, although most experts following the drama believed that he—and Spiro—had no case.
Spiro is “a bit of a cowboy, and he’s very good at it,” G. Taylor Wilson, one of Unsworth’s lawyers, told me. “He framed the case as this sort of back-and-forth joke: Why are we in court over this ‘pedo guy’ tweet?” What had started out as a serious matter—a heroic volunteer being falsely branded a child molester—suddenly seemed no more than a petty accusation, a waste of the jury’s time. After less than an hour of deliberation, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
“When a case is in the public eye, you have to be conscious of that when you’re litigating it,” he once told the. “And how you deal with that and interact with the court of public opinion matters.” “I have a photographic memory, basically—that’s my special secret sauce,” Spiro told me. “That and my ability to sleep three and a half hours a day and process information quickly. If it weren’t for those things, I would have zero chance of survival.” He’s also shrewd in his choice of jurors.
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