Twitter once paid a sky-high legal fee of $90 million for "selling his body", and new owner Musk decided to sue for recovery.

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen OC_Formula for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com July 9 news, Twitter parent company X Corp. Last Friday, the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz sued for the recovery of $90 million in legal costs (CTOnews.com Note: currently about 651 million yuan).

Former Twitter executives hired the law firm to push Musk to buy Twitter for $44 billion (currently about 318.12 billion yuan).

Linda Yaccarino, the current chief executive of Twitter, wants to recover the legal costs on the grounds that the lawsuit is based on false statements to Twitter.

The law firm charged an "emergency fee" of $84.3 million (currently about 609 million yuan) and a bill of $16 million per hour (currently about 116 million yuan) to help facilitate a deal between Twitter and Musk.

The amount of the fee shocked Martha Ryan Fox, the former Twitter chief executive and board member, who wrote succinctly in an email after receiving a copy of the bill: "Oh, my God".

Twitter board members were initially shocked, but they voted to approve the deal. According to the document, 84 million US dollars (currently about 607 million yuan) was transferred to the law firm just minutes before the deal was signed.