Anonymous wrote:https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-15831191/blake-lively-ryan-reynolds-compound-debt-unpaid-workers.html

Daily mail article on the $2 million in unpaid contracting bills. It’s behind a paywall, but if you go to Reddit, you can read the full article.

One of the funniest quotes is how they wanted to do a renovation that “ honors the history and the people” while asking to put in a substantial pool house and a gym.

Howling.

Anonymous wrote:What is unfathomable is that this case is over and some of you are still weirdly obsessed with an actress you claim to not care about and her husband you also claim to not care about.

You've spent more time thinking about Blake and Ryan than I've spent thinking about my own parents at this point. It is not healthy. Get help.

Anonymous wrote:What is unfathomable is that this case is over and some of you are still weirdly obsessed with an actress you claim to not care about and her husband you also claim to not care about.

You've spent more time thinking about Blake and Ryan than I've spent thinking about my own parents at this point. It is not healthy. Get help.

Anonymous wrote:Successful spirits are marketed as fun, masculine, luxury, high quality.

Bozo Ryan’s genius idea was to market his gin to lispy, effeminate men like himself, with a cocktail called “The Vasectomy.”

Then Blake tried to shill it while stressing she does not drink the crap.

Both are dumb-as-dogshit.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:These uneducated bozos are grifters and are having money problems. Without a crystal ball just did a deep dive into the five liens they have from companies working on their Westchester property.

They bought the property for 12 million in 2018 and because they weren’t basically tearing it down from the ground up and putting in a pool house and a bunch of other things, they had to go get approval from planning boards, which took a few years. Apparently there’s some historical significance to the property. In 2023 they started major construction, eventually enlisting five different companies to do various work. All those companies were paid until December 2025. Now all five companies have liens saying they have not been paid since December.

These morons are no different than the people who win the lottery. They don’t know how to manage their money and they spent like the money train from acting was going to last forever. Wrexham is 19 million in the red, aviation is not doing that well either. None of Blakes companies made money. And they have not had acting work in the last couple years. Ryan invested a bunch of his money and another big venture that was supposed to go public this year and is not because of all the drama surrounding a lawsuit.

Then they get in to a lawsuit that’s going to cost them tens of millions of dollars.

And yet they are much richer than you are, somehow. If they are morons, what does that make you, pray tell?

I’ve been able to pay all my bills since December so no I don’t think they are richer than me. Actually think their wealth has been widely overblown. I don’t think it’s anywhere near the hundreds of millions. So no, I don’t think they are worth that much more than me but either way, I’m not living through a PR and legal nightmare so there’s that.

If you actually do not think that Ryan Reynolds is "worth that much more" than you, a random internet poster, then perhaps we shouldn't trust your commentary on anything because that's absurd. Whatever he spent on this litigation and whatever his current career prospects, he is and will always be much wealthier than any of us posting here. Don't be foolish.

Many actors and celebrities of this ilk fall into financial ruin. They’re uneducated and they get people not saying no them and they get taken advantage of by lawyers and crisis comms and others, just like Blake and Ryan.

They think the money is going to last forever and they don't know how to manage it. These idiots are investing in alcohol companies when drinking rates are as low as weve ever seen and we are entering an era where millennials and Gen Z are largely uninterested in drinking. Utter morons. They are not able to pay contractors for months of work after investing 12 million to buy property than another 17 million of renovations that they can’t afford.

Anonymous wrote:https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-15831191/blake-lively-ryan-reynolds-compound-debt-unpaid-workers.html

Daily mail article on the $2 million in unpaid contracting bills. It’s behind a paywall, but if you go to Reddit, you can read the full article.

One of the funniest quotes is how they wanted to do a renovation that “ honors the history and the people” while asking to put in a substantial pool house and a gym.

Howling.

Anonymous wrote:These uneducated bozos are grifters and are having money problems. Without a crystal ball just did a deep dive into the five liens they have from companies working on their Westchester property.

They bought the property for 12 million in 2018 and because they weren’t basically tearing it down from the ground up and putting in a pool house and a bunch of other things, they had to go get approval from planning boards, which took a few years. Apparently there’s some historical significance to the property. In 2023 they started major construction, eventually enlisting five different companies to do various work. All those companies were paid until December 2025. Now all five companies have liens saying they have not been paid since December.

These morons are no different than the people who win the lottery. They don’t know how to manage their money and they spent like the money train from acting was going to last forever. Wrexham is 19 million in the red, aviation is not doing that well either. None of Blakes companies made money. And they have not had acting work in the last couple years. Ryan invested a bunch of his money and another big venture that was supposed to go public this year and is not because of all the drama surrounding a lawsuit.

Then they get in to a lawsuit that’s going to cost them tens of millions of dollars.

Anonymous wrote: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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Anonymous wrote:These uneducated bozos are grifters and are having money problems. Without a crystal ball just did a deep dive into the five liens they have from companies working on their Westchester property.

They bought the property for 12 million in 2018 and because they weren’t basically tearing it down from the ground up and putting in a pool house and a bunch of other things, they had to go get approval from planning boards, which took a few years. Apparently there’s some historical significance to the property. In 2023 they started major construction, eventually enlisting five different companies to do various work. All those companies were paid until December 2025. Now all five companies have liens saying they have not been paid since December.

These morons are no different than the people who win the lottery. They don’t know how to manage their money and they spent like the money train from acting was going to last forever. Wrexham is 19 million in the red, aviation is not doing that well either. None of Blakes companies made money. And they have not had acting work in the last couple years. Ryan invested a bunch of his money and another big venture that was supposed to go public this year and is not because of all the drama surrounding a lawsuit.

Then they get in to a lawsuit that’s going to cost them tens of millions of dollars.

And yet they are much richer than you are, somehow. If they are morons, what does that make you, pray tell?

I’ve been able to pay all my bills since December so no I don’t think they are richer than me. Actually think their wealth has been widely overblown. I don’t think it’s anywhere near the hundreds of millions. So no, I don’t think they are worth that much more than me but either way, I’m not living through a PR and legal nightmare so there’s that.

If you actually do not think that Ryan Reynolds is "worth that much more" than you, a random internet poster, then perhaps we shouldn't trust your commentary on anything because that's absurd. Whatever he spent on this litigation and whatever his current career prospects, he is and will always be much wealthier than any of us posting here. Don't be foolish.

DP. You are foolish for many things. Signed, a random internet poster most likely worth more if not the same as Reynolds. And before you assume, self-made. I use my wealth to help others and don't punch down. I think that pushes most people to the worth more category regardless of net wealth though.

Do you let your kids add guac?