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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lively and Reynolds:

- brought this lawsuit, dragged it on for 18 months, spent tens of millions of dollars doing it
- had their personal communications to friends released. Compromised trust of other celebrities who had their texts released. 
- had embarrassing facts about Blake’s business failures published. Including horrific drop in sales of her beauty line and drinks products. Admitted Betty buzz is dissolving and focus is getting rid of whatever stock they have through Amazon.
- asked for $300 million in damages. Got zero dollars.
- safe to say they wanted an NDA abd didn’t get one. They did not want Justin’s lawyers parading around talking to creators and podcasts. They are doing that. Reports are he might have a tell all in the works, which he will profit immensely from, at their expense, and more podcast, deep dives, and weeks of bad press for them.

Please tell me again how they won.

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I don't think they won, but I also don't think Baldoni or Wayfarer won. They:

- Admitted in writing that Lively's claims "deserved to be heard."
- Had their entire countersuit dismissed by the judge for failure to articulate even a single valid claim against Blake, Ryan, the NYT, or Sloane. Asked for $400 million in damages. Got zero dollars. Have zero opportunity to recover attorneys fees from any of the litigation and they have given up their chance to appeal.
- Had texts and emails detailing how Wayfarer and their public relations teams sought to "bury" Lively widely publicized, as well as many embarrassing texts where, for instance, Abel is revealed to mock Baldoni for some of the same behavior Blake ultimately sues him for as well as other tone deaf and embarrassing behavior, like wanting to go on a quack doctor's show to blame his behavior on his neurodivergence, or going to Mexico to get a sketchy stem cell infusion for free that ultimately landed him in the hospital
- Baldoni was regularly dragged in the press for being whiny, weird, and vindictive, mocked with Onion headlines like "Justin Baldoni sues Justin Baldoni for getting him into this mess"
- A myriad of women have come forward to express displeasure of working with Baldoni and Heath, including but not limited to: their longtime podcast cohost, two other actresses on IEWU, another director who had worked with them prior to IEWU, and the independent producer they hired for the film
- Sarowitz's tasteless comments about Israel and Gaza widely publicized 
- Lost their representation by WME and, to my knowledge, remain unrepresented in the industry
- Baldoni has not worked or even appeared publicly in his capacity as producer of a project since IEWU came out
- Baldoni and his wife have placed their California home up for sale and had to relocate to Tennessee
- Nathan, Wallace, and Freedman are now subject to multiple other suits related to activities uncovered in discovery during this case. 
- Abel still being sued by Stephanie Jones and unclear if Sarowitz's money for her defense will extend to that action now that Sarowitz and Wayfarer are no longer parties. Wallace still being sued for attorney's fees in Texas. All parties still subject to potential damages in the 47.1 action and have given up right to appeal any decision on that motion.

Again, I don't think Blake won the case. But Baldoni didn't win either and isn't even done with litigation. Who know what will be come of the 47.1 motion (maybe nothing, maybe something, I truly have no idea) but there's actually now a ton of pending litigation concerning other Wayfarer parties. Where is Jen Abel's career? Melissa Nathan? Will Jed Wallace change his name and start over or what? I don't see a victory lap here.

FWIW I have a number of family members in the film industry and the general attitude of people who don't know any of these parties is that they all suck -- Blake, Ryan, Baldoni, Nathan, Abel, Heath, Sarowitz, Wallace. They are all kind of toxic right now. People will still work with Ryan and Sarowitz/Wayfarer because both still have financial leverage (whatever people may assume about Ryan's finances, he still has a lot of profitable businesses and plenty of friends in the industry) but Blake and Baldoni are kind of third rail at the moment and I think they'll both need time away before most people (especially anyone A list or aspiring A list) will associate with either of them. Hoover is also being sidelined from involvement with her ongoing projects -- she'll make bank but likely won't be doing press or red carpet for Verity when it comes out in the fall unless things cool down considerably from where they are now before then.

Everybody lost.[/quote]

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