Elon Musk’s Next Challenge Comes From Twitter’s Sacked Employees Parag Agrawal, Ned Segal, Vijaya Gadde, Sean Edgett [Video]

Former high-ranking officials of Twitter have taken legal action against Elon Musk and X Corp., alleging they are owed more than $128 million in severance payments left unpaid. The lawsuit, filed on Monday, involves Twitter’s ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, Chief Legal Counsel Vijaya Gadde, and General Counsel Sean Edgett, who claim they were terminated without valid reasons on the day of Musk’s acquisition of Twitter in 2022, later rebranded as X.

Accusing Musk of fabricating grounds for their dismissals to avoid paying severance, the executives including former CEO Parag Agrawal stated he “made up fake cause and appointed employees of his various companies to uphold his decision,” as per the lawsuit filed in federal court in the Northern District of California. This legal action highlights a broader pattern, as Elon Musk has faced lawsuits from numerous former who were similarly denied severance after being terminated en masse.

The lawsuit portrays Musk’s approach as one …