Blake Lively- Jason Baldoni and NYT - False Light claims

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Anonymous wrote:Wallace has filed his amended complaint. Makes Blake look really bad, like she’s punching down. The judge should grant his MTD, and if he doesn’t, Blake should settle out of court and pay him what he’s asking for (14 million) and cut her losses. I think it’s pretty clear she’s caused this guy a lot of trouble, and he’s really just a regular person who got paid for a job and had never met Blake or Justin and knew nothing of the supposed SH. It’s a bit ridiculous that she’s suing him.

What you’re saying is insane. He’s a regular guy who could… remotely have $14 million in real damages from reputational damage? She should just go ahead and pay this “regular guy” $14 million (i.e., more money than an actual regular person will come close to earning in their entire life)? This take really shows you’ve jumped the shark.

The "settle" Anon is the worst. They're not settling anytime soon and it most definitely won't be for 14 million dollars.

There are multiple parties to this case and some will and should be dismissed or settled. This is really about Blake/Ryan vs Justin/Wayfarer and then also Abel/Wayfarer vs Jones. Wallace, Sloane, NYT and Sorowitz (as an individual separate from wayfarer) could all honestly be cut loose. Lawyers tend to add in everything to see what sticks, but some of these parties are really just caught in the crossfire.

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Anonymous wrote:Wallace has filed his amended complaint. Makes Blake look really bad, like she’s punching down. The judge should grant his MTD, and if he doesn’t, Blake should settle out of court and pay him what he’s asking for (14 million) and cut her losses. I think it’s pretty clear she’s caused this guy a lot of trouble, and he’s really just a regular person who got paid for a job and had never met Blake or Justin and knew nothing of the supposed SH. It’s a bit ridiculous that she’s suing him.

What you’re saying is insane. He’s a regular guy who could… remotely have $14 million in real damages from reputational damage? She should just go ahead and pay this “regular guy” $14 million (i.e., more money than an actual regular person will come close to earning in their entire life)? This take really shows you’ve jumped the shark.

Thank you.

To the PP: Wallace's lawyers of course want to position him as a "regular guy" who isn't even involved and should be dismissed from the case.

In reality, Wallace has a history of calling himself a "fixer", promising the ability to sculpt online sentiment to his will, and engaging in unethical business tactics. He has previously been sued for administering some kind of drug addiction program that, the plaintiff argued, almost killed him. He was repped by Bryan Freedman in that case from several years ago, the same Bryan Freedman who now reps Baldoni and has previously worked for Megyn Kelly and Perez Hilton.

Wallace is mentioned several times in the texts from Abel's phone, including in a text from Nathan reassuring Baldoni that Jamey Heath has spoken to Wallace to better understand the work he is doing for them.

Wallace, of course, is not in these texts because he only communicates via Signal. How many "regular people" do you know who only communicate via Signal?

I don't know if Wallace did anything worthy of liability in this case, but the idea he's just a regular fellow who has been unfairly dragged in by Blake is laughable. Or that she owes him 14 million, lol!

YES! The only people I have heard of being on Signal are Trump admin folks who are trying not to get caught. Who does that?!

Still unknown exactly who was paying Wallace, which also seems weird. He’s just a regular guy living in a two million dollar mansion in Austin who just makes little reports on social media but definitely doesn’t do anything except that and exclusively communicates on Signal. 👌

Every journalist I know, all of them Democrats. Also a lot of Dem political operatives.

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Anonymous wrote:Wallace has filed his amended complaint. Makes Blake look really bad, like she’s punching down. The judge should grant his MTD, and if he doesn’t, Blake should settle out of court and pay him what he’s asking for (14 million) and cut her losses. I think it’s pretty clear she’s caused this guy a lot of trouble, and he’s really just a regular person who got paid for a job and had never met Blake or Justin and knew nothing of the supposed SH. It’s a bit ridiculous that she’s suing him.

What you’re saying is insane. He’s a regular guy who could… remotely have $14 million in real damages from reputational damage? She should just go ahead and pay this “regular guy” $14 million (i.e., more money than an actual regular person will come close to earning in their entire life)? This take really shows you’ve jumped the shark.

The "settle" Anon is the worst. They're not settling anytime soon and it most definitely won't be for 14 million dollars.

There are multiple parties to this case and some will and should be dismissed or settled. This is really about Blake/Ryan vs Justin/Wayfarer and then also Abel/Wayfarer vs Jones. Wallace, Sloane, NYT and Sorowitz (as an individual separate from wayfarer) could all honestly be cut loose. Lawyers tend to add in everything to see what sticks, but some of these parties are really just caught in the crossfire.

DP.

That's fine but there's no indication any of the parties are interested in settling. So the "they should just settle" PP is strange. Settlement takes two sides ready to agree. There's just no evidence of that here.

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Anonymous wrote:Wallace has filed his amended complaint. Makes Blake look really bad, like she’s punching down. The judge should grant his MTD, and if he doesn’t, Blake should settle out of court and pay him what he’s asking for (14 million) and cut her losses. I think it’s pretty clear she’s caused this guy a lot of trouble, and he’s really just a regular person who got paid for a job and had never met Blake or Justin and knew nothing of the supposed SH. It’s a bit ridiculous that she’s suing him.

What you’re saying is insane. He’s a regular guy who could… remotely have $14 million in real damages from reputational damage? She should just go ahead and pay this “regular guy” $14 million (i.e., more money than an actual regular person will come close to earning in their entire life)? This take really shows you’ve jumped the shark.

Thank you.

To the PP: Wallace's lawyers of course want to position him as a "regular guy" who isn't even involved and should be dismissed from the case.

In reality, Wallace has a history of calling himself a "fixer", promising the ability to sculpt online sentiment to his will, and engaging in unethical business tactics. He has previously been sued for administering some kind of drug addiction program that, the plaintiff argued, almost killed him. He was repped by Bryan Freedman in that case from several years ago, the same Bryan Freedman who now reps Baldoni and has previously worked for Megyn Kelly and Perez Hilton.

Wallace is mentioned several times in the texts from Abel's phone, including in a text from Nathan reassuring Baldoni that Jamey Heath has spoken to Wallace to better understand the work he is doing for them.

Wallace, of course, is not in these texts because he only communicates via Signal. How many "regular people" do you know who only communicate via Signal?

I don't know if Wallace did anything worthy of liability in this case, but the idea he's just a regular fellow who has been unfairly dragged in by Blake is laughable. Or that she owes him 14 million, lol!

So much of what you’ve written is irrelevant to the facts of the case and meant to distract. But since we’re talking about shady behavior, Blake hired Wallace’s own former lawyer who had represented him in another case. There needs to be an entire class of new laws called the lively laws to close all of the unethical loopholes she’s tapping into in this case. Can you imagine the privileged information this lawyer has and is now using against Wallace? Also, I’m not sure living in a 2m house makes you not a regular person. I’m quite sure lots of people on this very forum would disagree.

If the lawyer is sharing privileged info about Wallace, he can be disbarred.

Did you know Bryan Freedman represented a screenwriter who was suing Wayfarer and Baldoni before he started representing them against Lively? Lawyers sometimes do that.

The difference is lively hired this lawyer to sue Wallace. It’s just very weird. Blake and Ryan move in a very shady way. It’s like they see themselves as untouchable

Is there a not a means for Wallace to contest this as a conflict of interest? It is different than Baldoni's case. He chose to hire a lawyer who'd sued him.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wallace has filed his amended complaint. Makes Blake look really bad, like she’s punching down. The judge should grant his MTD, and if he doesn’t, Blake should settle out of court and pay him what he’s asking for (14 million) and cut her losses. I think it’s pretty clear she’s caused this guy a lot of trouble, and he’s really just a regular person who got paid for a job and had never met Blake or Justin and knew nothing of the supposed SH. It’s a bit ridiculous that she’s suing him.

What you’re saying is insane. He’s a regular guy who could… remotely have $14 million in real damages from reputational damage? She should just go ahead and pay this “regular guy” $14 million (i.e., more money than an actual regular person will come close to earning in their entire life)? This take really shows you’ve jumped the shark.

The "settle" Anon is the worst. They're not settling anytime soon and it most definitely won't be for 14 million dollars.

There are multiple parties to this case and some will and should be dismissed or settled. This is really about Blake/Ryan vs Justin/Wayfarer and then also Abel/Wayfarer vs Jones. Wallace, Sloane, NYT and Sorowitz (as an individual separate from wayfarer) could all honestly be cut loose. Lawyers tend to add in everything to see what sticks, but some of these parties are really just caught in the crossfire.

DP.

That's fine but there's no indication any of the parties are interested in settling. So the "they should just settle" PP is strange. Settlement takes two sides ready to agree. There's just no evidence of that here.

PP here, I’m also the one who said Blake should settle the case with Wallace. He does seem like a regular person to me who owns a small business and has been caught in the middle of a celebrity feud between two people he has never met. Blake has leaked his home address, his medical records, defamed his company such that anyone who does business with him would be looked at suspiciously (the same way people look at Nathan suspiciously). The damages he’s asking for are pocket change to Blake and Ryan and I think in his case they should cut him loose, pay him and move on. The evidence against him is weak. Blake’s own exhibits show sentiment had turned negative against her weeks before he was hired and she said herself in her request for pre litigation discovery that she didn’t have enough evidence to bring a case, yet that didn’t stop her from defaming him in the nyt.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wallace has filed his amended complaint. Makes Blake look really bad, like she’s punching down. The judge should grant his MTD, and if he doesn’t, Blake should settle out of court and pay him what he’s asking for (14 million) and cut her losses. I think it’s pretty clear she’s caused this guy a lot of trouble, and he’s really just a regular person who got paid for a job and had never met Blake or Justin and knew nothing of the supposed SH. It’s a bit ridiculous that she’s suing him.

What you’re saying is insane. He’s a regular guy who could… remotely have $14 million in real damages from reputational damage? She should just go ahead and pay this “regular guy” $14 million (i.e., more money than an actual regular person will come close to earning in their entire life)? This take really shows you’ve jumped the shark.

The "settle" Anon is the worst. They're not settling anytime soon and it most definitely won't be for 14 million dollars.

There are multiple parties to this case and some will and should be dismissed or settled. This is really about Blake/Ryan vs Justin/Wayfarer and then also Abel/Wayfarer vs Jones. Wallace, Sloane, NYT and Sorowitz (as an individual separate from wayfarer) could all honestly be cut loose. Lawyers tend to add in everything to see what sticks, but some of these parties are really just caught in the crossfire.

DP.

That's fine but there's no indication any of the parties are interested in settling. So the "they should just settle" PP is strange. Settlement takes two sides ready to agree. There's just no evidence of that here.

PP here, I’m also the one who said Blake should settle the case with Wallace. He does seem like a regular person to me who owns a small business and has been caught in the middle of a celebrity feud between two people he has never met. Blake has leaked his home address, his medical records, defamed his company such that anyone who does business with him would be looked at suspiciously (the same way people look at Nathan suspiciously). The damages he’s asking for are pocket change to Blake and Ryan and I think in his case they should cut him loose, pay him and move on. The evidence against him is weak. Blake’s own exhibits show sentiment had turned negative against her weeks before he was hired and she said herself in her request for pre litigation discovery that she didn’t have enough evidence to bring a case, yet that didn’t stop her from defaming him in the nyt.

I think you are giving him a weird amount of credit. You should really look into his backstory. Wallace is not just a small business owner in Texas. In fact, his company was based on California. As he discloses in his own complaint, he's previously done work for and been in litigation with Paramount Pictures. She also alludes to the fact that his business sometimes "helps" people who have drug addiction. This is because he was involved in a fairly high profile case where he was hired to help an entertainer deal with a drug addiction, and was later sued for his methods. Wallace has a long history with Hollywood and the entertainment business, and a shady past with his own business dealings.

You might also want to ask yourself why, when Meghan Twohey reached out to Wallace, Abel, Nathan, Baldoni, and Heath (each separately) to inform them of the upcoming NYT article in December and request comment, Wallace has Jennifer Abel tell Twohey they he, like all the others, was represented by Bryan Freedman (who has a history with Wallace as both his lawyer and his client). But now Wallace claims to have nothing to do with the matter and has retained separate counsel. If Wallace truly had nothing to do with this matter, why would he not have issued a *separate* response to Twohey and immediately retained his own counsel.

Wallace is a shady dude and his involvement in this case is entirely his own doing.

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Anonymous wrote:Wallace has filed his amended complaint. Makes Blake look really bad, like she’s punching down. The judge should grant his MTD, and if he doesn’t, Blake should settle out of court and pay him what he’s asking for (14 million) and cut her losses. I think it’s pretty clear she’s caused this guy a lot of trouble, and he’s really just a regular person who got paid for a job and had never met Blake or Justin and knew nothing of the supposed SH. It’s a bit ridiculous that she’s suing him.

What you’re saying is insane. He’s a regular guy who could… remotely have $14 million in real damages from reputational damage? She should just go ahead and pay this “regular guy” $14 million (i.e., more money than an actual regular person will come close to earning in their entire life)? This take really shows you’ve jumped the shark.

The "settle" Anon is the worst. They're not settling anytime soon and it most definitely won't be for 14 million dollars.

There are multiple parties to this case and some will and should be dismissed or settled. This is really about Blake/Ryan vs Justin/Wayfarer and then also Abel/Wayfarer vs Jones. Wallace, Sloane, NYT and Sorowitz (as an individual separate from wayfarer) could all honestly be cut loose. Lawyers tend to add in everything to see what sticks, but some of these parties are really just caught in the crossfire.

DP.

That's fine but there's no indication any of the parties are interested in settling. So the "they should just settle" PP is strange. Settlement takes two sides ready to agree. There's just no evidence of that here.

PP here, I’m also the one who said Blake should settle the case with Wallace. He does seem like a regular person to me who owns a small business and has been caught in the middle of a celebrity feud between two people he has never met. Blake has leaked his home address, his medical records, defamed his company such that anyone who does business with him would be looked at suspiciously (the same way people look at Nathan suspiciously). The damages he’s asking for are pocket change to Blake and Ryan and I think in his case they should cut him loose, pay him and move on. The evidence against him is weak. Blake’s own exhibits show sentiment had turned negative against her weeks before he was hired and she said herself in her request for pre litigation discovery that she didn’t have enough evidence to bring a case, yet that didn’t stop her from defaming him in the nyt.

I think you are giving him a weird amount of credit. You should really look into his backstory. Wallace is not just a small business owner in Texas. In fact, his company was based on California. As he discloses in his own complaint, he's previously done work for and been in litigation with Paramount Pictures. She also alludes to the fact that his business sometimes "helps" people who have drug addiction. This is because he was involved in a fairly high profile case where he was hired to help an entertainer deal with a drug addiction, and was later sued for his methods. Wallace has a long history with Hollywood and the entertainment business, and a shady past with his own business dealings.

You might also want to ask yourself why, when Meghan Twohey reached out to Wallace, Abel, Nathan, Baldoni, and Heath (each separately) to inform them of the upcoming NYT article in December and request comment, Wallace has Jennifer Abel tell Twohey they he, like all the others, was represented by Bryan Freedman (who has a history with Wallace as both his lawyer and his client). But now Wallace claims to have nothing to do with the matter and has retained separate counsel. If Wallace truly had nothing to do with this matter, why would he not have issued a *separate* response to Twohey and immediately retained his own counsel.

Wallace is a shady dude and his involvement in this case is entirely his own doing.

Meant to say his company was based in California until recently. He only moved it to Texas within the last year or two, likely in part because he believes anti-SLAPP provisions there can protect him and his business.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wallace has filed his amended complaint. Makes Blake look really bad, like she’s punching down. The judge should grant his MTD, and if he doesn’t, Blake should settle out of court and pay him what he’s asking for (14 million) and cut her losses. I think it’s pretty clear she’s caused this guy a lot of trouble, and he’s really just a regular person who got paid for a job and had never met Blake or Justin and knew nothing of the supposed SH. It’s a bit ridiculous that she’s suing him.

What you’re saying is insane. He’s a regular guy who could… remotely have $14 million in real damages from reputational damage? She should just go ahead and pay this “regular guy” $14 million (i.e., more money than an actual regular person will come close to earning in their entire life)? This take really shows you’ve jumped the shark.

Thank you.

To the PP: Wallace's lawyers of course want to position him as a "regular guy" who isn't even involved and should be dismissed from the case.

In reality, Wallace has a history of calling himself a "fixer", promising the ability to sculpt online sentiment to his will, and engaging in unethical business tactics. He has previously been sued for administering some kind of drug addiction program that, the plaintiff argued, almost killed him. He was repped by Bryan Freedman in that case from several years ago, the same Bryan Freedman who now reps Baldoni and has previously worked for Megyn Kelly and Perez Hilton.

Wallace is mentioned several times in the texts from Abel's phone, including in a text from Nathan reassuring Baldoni that Jamey Heath has spoken to Wallace to better understand the work he is doing for them.

Wallace, of course, is not in these texts because he only communicates via Signal. How many "regular people" do you know who only communicate via Signal?

I don't know if Wallace did anything worthy of liability in this case, but the idea he's just a regular fellow who has been unfairly dragged in by Blake is laughable. Or that she owes him 14 million, lol!

So much of what you’ve written is irrelevant to the facts of the case and meant to distract. But since we’re talking about shady behavior, Blake hired Wallace’s own former lawyer who had represented him in another case. There needs to be an entire class of new laws called the lively laws to close all of the unethical loopholes she’s tapping into in this case. Can you imagine the privileged information this lawyer has and is now using against Wallace? Also, I’m not sure living in a 2m house makes you not a regular person. I’m quite sure lots of people on this very forum would disagree.

If the lawyer is sharing privileged info about Wallace, he can be disbarred.

Did you know Bryan Freedman represented a screenwriter who was suing Wayfarer and Baldoni before he started representing them against Lively? Lawyers sometimes do that.

The difference is lively hired this lawyer to sue Wallace. It’s just very weird. Blake and Ryan move in a very shady way. It’s like they see themselves as untouchable

Is there a not a means for Wallace to contest this as a conflict of interest? It is different than Baldoni's case. He chose to hire a lawyer who'd sued him.

I imagine it’s a gray area, which lively likes to exploit so much. Wallace says that this lawyer lively retained had previously represented him in a matter involving paramount pictures. He seems to hint that this lawyer is the reason Blake knew he had worked with paramount pictures before, saying this is obscure and hard to find information (or something to that effect).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wallace has filed his amended complaint. Makes Blake look really bad, like she’s punching down. The judge should grant his MTD, and if he doesn’t, Blake should settle out of court and pay him what he’s asking for (14 million) and cut her losses. I think it’s pretty clear she’s caused this guy a lot of trouble, and he’s really just a regular person who got paid for a job and had never met Blake or Justin and knew nothing of the supposed SH. It’s a bit ridiculous that she’s suing him.

What you’re saying is insane. He’s a regular guy who could… remotely have $14 million in real damages from reputational damage? She should just go ahead and pay this “regular guy” $14 million (i.e., more money than an actual regular person will come close to earning in their entire life)? This take really shows you’ve jumped the shark.

Thank you.

To the PP: Wallace's lawyers of course want to position him as a "regular guy" who isn't even involved and should be dismissed from the case.

In reality, Wallace has a history of calling himself a "fixer", promising the ability to sculpt online sentiment to his will, and engaging in unethical business tactics. He has previously been sued for administering some kind of drug addiction program that, the plaintiff argued, almost killed him. He was repped by Bryan Freedman in that case from several years ago, the same Bryan Freedman who now reps Baldoni and has previously worked for Megyn Kelly and Perez Hilton.

Wallace is mentioned several times in the texts from Abel's phone, including in a text from Nathan reassuring Baldoni that Jamey Heath has spoken to Wallace to better understand the work he is doing for them.

Wallace, of course, is not in these texts because he only communicates via Signal. How many "regular people" do you know who only communicate via Signal?

I don't know if Wallace did anything worthy of liability in this case, but the idea he's just a regular fellow who has been unfairly dragged in by Blake is laughable. Or that she owes him 14 million, lol!

YES! The only people I have heard of being on Signal are Trump admin folks who are trying not to get caught. Who does that?!

Still unknown exactly who was paying Wallace, which also seems weird. He’s just a regular guy living in a two million dollar mansion in Austin who just makes little reports on social media but definitely doesn’t do anything except that and exclusively communicates on Signal. 👌

Every journalist I know, all of them Democrats. Also a lot of Dem political operatives.

What does being a democrat or republican have to do with this? That’s a bizarre bit of extra shading you added.

If journalists are using Signal to protect their sources and political operatives are hiding the money or other trails, while normal PR operatives like Nathan etc are using email and texting, what possible reason could little old Jed Wallace “just monitoring social media” have to use Signal and nothing else? It’s bizarre.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wallace has filed his amended complaint. Makes Blake look really bad, like she’s punching down. The judge should grant his MTD, and if he doesn’t, Blake should settle out of court and pay him what he’s asking for (14 million) and cut her losses. I think it’s pretty clear she’s caused this guy a lot of trouble, and he’s really just a regular person who got paid for a job and had never met Blake or Justin and knew nothing of the supposed SH. It’s a bit ridiculous that she’s suing him.

What you’re saying is insane. He’s a regular guy who could… remotely have $14 million in real damages from reputational damage? She should just go ahead and pay this “regular guy” $14 million (i.e., more money than an actual regular person will come close to earning in their entire life)? This take really shows you’ve jumped the shark.

The "settle" Anon is the worst. They're not settling anytime soon and it most definitely won't be for 14 million dollars.

There are multiple parties to this case and some will and should be dismissed or settled. This is really about Blake/Ryan vs Justin/Wayfarer and then also Abel/Wayfarer vs Jones. Wallace, Sloane, NYT and Sorowitz (as an individual separate from wayfarer) could all honestly be cut loose. Lawyers tend to add in everything to see what sticks, but some of these parties are really just caught in the crossfire.

DP.

That's fine but there's no indication any of the parties are interested in settling. So the "they should just settle" PP is strange. Settlement takes two sides ready to agree. There's just no evidence of that here.

PP here, I’m also the one who said Blake should settle the case with Wallace. He does seem like a regular person to me who owns a small business and has been caught in the middle of a celebrity feud between two people he has never met. Blake has leaked his home address, his medical records, defamed his company such that anyone who does business with him would be looked at suspiciously (the same way people look at Nathan suspiciously). The damages he’s asking for are pocket change to Blake and Ryan and I think in his case they should cut him loose, pay him and move on. The evidence against him is weak. Blake’s own exhibits show sentiment had turned negative against her weeks before he was hired and she said herself in her request for pre litigation discovery that she didn’t have enough evidence to bring a case, yet that didn’t stop her from defaming him in the nyt.

I think you are giving him a weird amount of credit. You should really look into his backstory. Wallace is not just a small business owner in Texas. In fact, his company was based on California. As he discloses in his own complaint, he's previously done work for and been in litigation with Paramount Pictures. She also alludes to the fact that his business sometimes "helps" people who have drug addiction. This is because he was involved in a fairly high profile case where he was hired to help an entertainer deal with a drug addiction, and was later sued for his methods. Wallace has a long history with Hollywood and the entertainment business, and a shady past with his own business dealings.

You might also want to ask yourself why, when Meghan Twohey reached out to Wallace, Abel, Nathan, Baldoni, and Heath (each separately) to inform them of the upcoming NYT article in December and request comment, Wallace has Jennifer Abel tell Twohey they he, like all the others, was represented by Bryan Freedman (who has a history with Wallace as both his lawyer and his client). But now Wallace claims to have nothing to do with the matter and has retained separate counsel. If Wallace truly had nothing to do with this matter, why would he not have issued a *separate* response to Twohey and immediately retained his own counsel.

Wallace is a shady dude and his involvement in this case is entirely his own doing.

Idk, seems like little to none of this would ever be admissible in court. Just looking strictly at the case involving Blake, it looks weak and seems like he’s just in the crossfire…

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Anonymous wrote:Wallace has filed his amended complaint. Makes Blake look really bad, like she’s punching down. The judge should grant his MTD, and if he doesn’t, Blake should settle out of court and pay him what he’s asking for (14 million) and cut her losses. I think it’s pretty clear she’s caused this guy a lot of trouble, and he’s really just a regular person who got paid for a job and had never met Blake or Justin and knew nothing of the supposed SH. It’s a bit ridiculous that she’s suing him.

What you’re saying is insane. He’s a regular guy who could… remotely have $14 million in real damages from reputational damage? She should just go ahead and pay this “regular guy” $14 million (i.e., more money than an actual regular person will come close to earning in their entire life)? This take really shows you’ve jumped the shark.

Thank you.

To the PP: Wallace's lawyers of course want to position him as a "regular guy" who isn't even involved and should be dismissed from the case.

In reality, Wallace has a history of calling himself a "fixer", promising the ability to sculpt online sentiment to his will, and engaging in unethical business tactics. He has previously been sued for administering some kind of drug addiction program that, the plaintiff argued, almost killed him. He was repped by Bryan Freedman in that case from several years ago, the same Bryan Freedman who now reps Baldoni and has previously worked for Megyn Kelly and Perez Hilton.

Wallace is mentioned several times in the texts from Abel's phone, including in a text from Nathan reassuring Baldoni that Jamey Heath has spoken to Wallace to better understand the work he is doing for them.

Wallace, of course, is not in these texts because he only communicates via Signal. How many "regular people" do you know who only communicate via Signal?

I don't know if Wallace did anything worthy of liability in this case, but the idea he's just a regular fellow who has been unfairly dragged in by Blake is laughable. Or that she owes him 14 million, lol!

YES! The only people I have heard of being on Signal are Trump admin folks who are trying not to get caught. Who does that?!

Still unknown exactly who was paying Wallace, which also seems weird. He’s just a regular guy living in a two million dollar mansion in Austin who just makes little reports on social media but definitely doesn’t do anything except that and exclusively communicates on Signal. 👌

Every journalist I know, all of them Democrats. Also a lot of Dem political operatives.

What does being a democrat or republican have to do with this? That’s a bizarre bit of extra shading you added.

If journalists are using Signal to protect their sources and political operatives are hiding the money or other trails, while normal PR operatives like Nathan etc are using email and texting, what possible reason could little old Jed Wallace “just monitoring social media” have to use Signal and nothing else? It’s bizarre.

Dp, but you sound out of touch. Signal is very popular these days, particularly among government employees who want to discuss things like doge without doge knowing.

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Anonymous wrote:Wallace has filed his amended complaint. Makes Blake look really bad, like she’s punching down. The judge should grant his MTD, and if he doesn’t, Blake should settle out of court and pay him what he’s asking for (14 million) and cut her losses. I think it’s pretty clear she’s caused this guy a lot of trouble, and he’s really just a regular person who got paid for a job and had never met Blake or Justin and knew nothing of the supposed SH. It’s a bit ridiculous that she’s suing him.

What you’re saying is insane. He’s a regular guy who could… remotely have $14 million in real damages from reputational damage? She should just go ahead and pay this “regular guy” $14 million (i.e., more money than an actual regular person will come close to earning in their entire life)? This take really shows you’ve jumped the shark.

The "settle" Anon is the worst. They're not settling anytime soon and it most definitely won't be for 14 million dollars.

There are multiple parties to this case and some will and should be dismissed or settled. This is really about Blake/Ryan vs Justin/Wayfarer and then also Abel/Wayfarer vs Jones. Wallace, Sloane, NYT and Sorowitz (as an individual separate from wayfarer) could all honestly be cut loose. Lawyers tend to add in everything to see what sticks, but some of these parties are really just caught in the crossfire.

DP.

That's fine but there's no indication any of the parties are interested in settling. So the "they should just settle" PP is strange. Settlement takes two sides ready to agree. There's just no evidence of that here.

PP here, I’m also the one who said Blake should settle the case with Wallace. He does seem like a regular person to me who owns a small business and has been caught in the middle of a celebrity feud between two people he has never met. Blake has leaked his home address, his medical records, defamed his company such that anyone who does business with him would be looked at suspiciously (the same way people look at Nathan suspiciously). The damages he’s asking for are pocket change to Blake and Ryan and I think in his case they should cut him loose, pay him and move on. The evidence against him is weak. Blake’s own exhibits show sentiment had turned negative against her weeks before he was hired and she said herself in her request for pre litigation discovery that she didn’t have enough evidence to bring a case, yet that didn’t stop her from defaming him in the nyt.

I think you are giving him a weird amount of credit. You should really look into his backstory. Wallace is not just a small business owner in Texas. In fact, his company was based on California. As he discloses in his own complaint, he's previously done work for and been in litigation with Paramount Pictures. She also alludes to the fact that his business sometimes "helps" people who have drug addiction. This is because he was involved in a fairly high profile case where he was hired to help an entertainer deal with a drug addiction, and was later sued for his methods. Wallace has a long history with Hollywood and the entertainment business, and a shady past with his own business dealings.

You might also want to ask yourself why, when Meghan Twohey reached out to Wallace, Abel, Nathan, Baldoni, and Heath (each separately) to inform them of the upcoming NYT article in December and request comment, Wallace has Jennifer Abel tell Twohey they he, like all the others, was represented by Bryan Freedman (who has a history with Wallace as both his lawyer and his client). But now Wallace claims to have nothing to do with the matter and has retained separate counsel. If Wallace truly had nothing to do with this matter, why would he not have issued a *separate* response to Twohey and immediately retained his own counsel.

Wallace is a shady dude and his involvement in this case is entirely his own doing.

Idk, seems like little to none of this would ever be admissible in court. Just looking strictly at the case involving Blake, it looks weak and seems like he’s just in the crossfire…

She admitted as much by not including him in the initial complaint.

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Anonymous wrote:Wallace has filed his amended complaint. Makes Blake look really bad, like she’s punching down. The judge should grant his MTD, and if he doesn’t, Blake should settle out of court and pay him what he’s asking for (14 million) and cut her losses. I think it’s pretty clear she’s caused this guy a lot of trouble, and he’s really just a regular person who got paid for a job and had never met Blake or Justin and knew nothing of the supposed SH. It’s a bit ridiculous that she’s suing him.

What you’re saying is insane. He’s a regular guy who could… remotely have $14 million in real damages from reputational damage? She should just go ahead and pay this “regular guy” $14 million (i.e., more money than an actual regular person will come close to earning in their entire life)? This take really shows you’ve jumped the shark.

Thank you.

To the PP: Wallace's lawyers of course want to position him as a "regular guy" who isn't even involved and should be dismissed from the case.

In reality, Wallace has a history of calling himself a "fixer", promising the ability to sculpt online sentiment to his will, and engaging in unethical business tactics. He has previously been sued for administering some kind of drug addiction program that, the plaintiff argued, almost killed him. He was repped by Bryan Freedman in that case from several years ago, the same Bryan Freedman who now reps Baldoni and has previously worked for Megyn Kelly and Perez Hilton.

Wallace is mentioned several times in the texts from Abel's phone, including in a text from Nathan reassuring Baldoni that Jamey Heath has spoken to Wallace to better understand the work he is doing for them.

Wallace, of course, is not in these texts because he only communicates via Signal. How many "regular people" do you know who only communicate via Signal?

I don't know if Wallace did anything worthy of liability in this case, but the idea he's just a regular fellow who has been unfairly dragged in by Blake is laughable. Or that she owes him 14 million, lol!

YES! The only people I have heard of being on Signal are Trump admin folks who are trying not to get caught. Who does that?!

Still unknown exactly who was paying Wallace, which also seems weird. He’s just a regular guy living in a two million dollar mansion in Austin who just makes little reports on social media but definitely doesn’t do anything except that and exclusively communicates on Signal. 👌

Every journalist I know, all of them Democrats. Also a lot of Dem political operatives.

What does being a democrat or republican have to do with this? That’s a bizarre bit of extra shading you added.

If journalists are using Signal to protect their sources and political operatives are hiding the money or other trails, while normal PR operatives like Nathan etc are using email and texting, what possible reason could little old Jed Wallace “just monitoring social media” have to use Signal and nothing else? It’s bizarre.

Dp, but you sound out of touch. Signal is very popular these days, particularly among government employees who want to discuss things like doge without doge knowing.

Again, feds have a reason to not want their communications to be discoverable rn, no? If all Jed Wallace is doing is “monitoring social media” in a completely above-board way, what possible need does he have to use Signal where messages can be set to “disappear” after a period of time? Doesn’t he need to be able to keep records of his totally above board and legit business communications, rather than have them disappear into the ether?

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Also, if he’s trying so hard to get out of the case, why can’t he even say who exactly hired him and how much he received as payment?

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Anonymous wrote:Wallace has filed his amended complaint. Makes Blake look really bad, like she’s punching down. The judge should grant his MTD, and if he doesn’t, Blake should settle out of court and pay him what he’s asking for (14 million) and cut her losses. I think it’s pretty clear she’s caused this guy a lot of trouble, and he’s really just a regular person who got paid for a job and had never met Blake or Justin and knew nothing of the supposed SH. It’s a bit ridiculous that she’s suing him.

What you’re saying is insane. He’s a regular guy who could… remotely have $14 million in real damages from reputational damage? She should just go ahead and pay this “regular guy” $14 million (i.e., more money than an actual regular person will come close to earning in their entire life)? This take really shows you’ve jumped the shark.

Thank you.

To the PP: Wallace's lawyers of course want to position him as a "regular guy" who isn't even involved and should be dismissed from the case.

In reality, Wallace has a history of calling himself a "fixer", promising the ability to sculpt online sentiment to his will, and engaging in unethical business tactics. He has previously been sued for administering some kind of drug addiction program that, the plaintiff argued, almost killed him. He was repped by Bryan Freedman in that case from several years ago, the same Bryan Freedman who now reps Baldoni and has previously worked for Megyn Kelly and Perez Hilton.

Wallace is mentioned several times in the texts from Abel's phone, including in a text from Nathan reassuring Baldoni that Jamey Heath has spoken to Wallace to better understand the work he is doing for them.

Wallace, of course, is not in these texts because he only communicates via Signal. How many "regular people" do you know who only communicate via Signal?

I don't know if Wallace did anything worthy of liability in this case, but the idea he's just a regular fellow who has been unfairly dragged in by Blake is laughable. Or that she owes him 14 million, lol!

YES! The only people I have heard of being on Signal are Trump admin folks who are trying not to get caught. Who does that?!

Still unknown exactly who was paying Wallace, which also seems weird. He’s just a regular guy living in a two million dollar mansion in Austin who just makes little reports on social media but definitely doesn’t do anything except that and exclusively communicates on Signal. 👌

Every journalist I know, all of them Democrats. Also a lot of Dem political operatives.

What does being a democrat or republican have to do with this? That’s a bizarre bit of extra shading you added.

If journalists are using Signal to protect their sources and political operatives are hiding the money or other trails, while normal PR operatives like Nathan etc are using email and texting, what possible reason could little old Jed Wallace “just monitoring social media” have to use Signal and nothing else? It’s bizarre.

Dp, but you sound out of touch. Signal is very popular these days, particularly among government employees who want to discuss things like doge without doge knowing.

Again, feds have a reason to not want their communications to be discoverable rn, no? If all Jed Wallace is doing is “monitoring social media” in a completely above-board way, what possible need does he have to use Signal where messages can be set to “disappear” after a period of time? Doesn’t he need to be able to keep records of his totally above board and legit business communications, rather than have them disappear into the ether?

Again, everyone is using Signal these days, you are just out of touch. There is nothing nefarious about using it.