A lawyer for the British cave explorer suing Elon Musk said in Los Angeles federal court Friday that the Tesla founder should pay at least $190 million for branding his client a “pedo guy” in a heated Twitter exchange.

Attorney L. Lin Wood said in closing arguments that Musk’s suggestion that his client, Vernon Unsworth, was a pedophile was like a “nuclear bomb” that will affect his relationships and job prospects for years to come, and that jurors should teach the “billionaire bully” a lesson.

The total requested damages — which dwarf a $75,000 demand found in the original suit — would consist of $5 million in actual damages, $35 million in assumed damages and at least $150 million in punitive damages.

Given Musk’s estimated net worth of $20 billion, the punitive damages should be seen as a “hard slap on the wrist,” Wood told jurors.

Wood likewise told the jury that Musk is “a liar is a liar is a liar,” according to a tweet by BuzzFeed reporter Ryan Mac.

“He says he lied on the stand about when he knew about the threat of litigation and about apologizing,” Mac tweeted. “The biggest lie, however, was calling Unsworth a pedophile.”

The reporter added that “it’s hard to say how the jury reacted. By the end of the argument one was playing with her hair and another half smiled when the $150m number was said out loud. They mostly listened intently tho and focused on Wood.”

A lawyer for Musk will also deliver a closing argument Friday and the three-man, five-woman jury may begin deliberating later in the day. The trial in federal court in Los Angeles began Tuesday.

Unsworth, who in July 2018 helped rescue a youth soccer team and its coach from a flooded cave in Thailand, had ridiculed Musk’s attempt to assist in the rescue by donating a mini-submarine to transport the boys.

Despite Musk team’s working around the clock to build the sub, it was never used.

Musk insisted earlier this week that he never called Unsworth a pedophile, telling the jury that the phrase he tweeted off the cuff “was obviously a flippant insult, and no one interpreted it to mean pedophile.”

Unsworth’s lawyer asked the billionaire how the insult was cast in the media worldwide, and Musk said he recalled that news organizations “correctly interpreted it as an insult, not an accusation of pedophilia.”

The spat began when Unsworth ridiculed Musk’s effort to help in the rescue by having engineers at his companies, including Space X and The Boring Co., develop a mini-submarine that could transport the boys. Despite working around the clock to build the sub, Musk arrived in Thailand late in the rescue effort and the craft was never used.

Unsworth called it nothing more than a “PR stunt” and said Musk could stick the sub “where it hurts.”

With Post wires