I am completely unsurprised that he's decided to comment on this, but I'm sure his legal team would have told him not to.
The timing on this is incredible, though, because even if Ethan wins the case, he's now having to run defence for claims of various labour law violations like "unpaid overtime" and "not letting her have a lunch break but still docking her half an hour out of her paycheck every day".
This clip isn't recent but got shared -
That's probably about the nanny ("like a babysitter") and it's pretty damning about how they view the help and how they view raising their own children; he complains he was "stuck with the baby at 1:30 in the morning".
Which does lead onto
the hr lady who fired the housekeeper and lied to her on the phone about the reason is literally named BISH you cant make this shit up lol
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This is well after the Ryan Kavanaugh lawsuits started, and the housekeeper was dealing with the Executive Vice President of Finance for Teddy Fresh and using a Teddy Fresh timecard. Kavanaugh's legal angle was that he wanted to sue Teddy Fresh as it was basically a shell company that contained most of the money and assets belonging to either the Kleins or to the H3 Productions ("Ted Entertainment") business; he alleged that's where all the real money was hidden or would be hidden if he were successful.
Despite Ethan declaring it all a massive win, only two of the court cases were dismissed with prejudice; the torturous interference one ("Ethan and Hila are trying to extort me by threatening to shit talk my app") and domain squatting. One of the other two, the copyright one, was settled for an undisclosed amount in August last year.
I think Ethan later revealed they settled for about $3k, mostly because they'd been engaged in prolonged lawfare for years over it. However, there's still the defamation case ongoing - a hearing relating to that was supposed to be going forward in December 2024. This nanny's case is going to be pretty damning as it proceeds because it's establishing they comingled funds, engaged in unauthorised diversion of corporate funds or assets, paid personal debts with corporate funds, utilised corporate funds for personal purchases, claimed to have personal liability for the debts of the corporation etc etc - I mean, they were paying for a housekeeper by employing her at their "fashion" company; in most places you can expense a cleaning service but only if they're specifically cleaning the workplace and not your home.
I reckon they've got into a lot of clever sounding tricks to stretch their money but this is actually going to prove quite challenging to them - especially if IRS decide they want to audit. It's the same thing with the pretextual reason for sacking this woman. California's an at-will state and Ethan's claiming he gave her multiple warnings about fat shaming the nanny. But even assuming there's an actual HR paper trail there of written warnings about it (which I doubt) it's still going to stink that this apparent ongoing issue was being left to fester and only when she announces she needs medical leave does she discover the next day that her timecard has been deactivated (she was only formally fired when she rang up the Teddy Fresh IT department for help).
It's causing a house of cards to fall - the nanny's lawsuit is against Teddy Fresh
and Ethan and Hila, because the case is arguing she was employed by Ethan and Hila but contracted through Teddy Fresh, and the two are alter egos of each other and you can't sue Ethan and Hila without suing Teddy Fresh (and vice-versa). That means they now
can't hide their money in Teddy Fresh from Ryan Kavanaugh, but also they can't hide their money in their own accounts from the housekeeper.
On top of all that, their finances are likely up the creek anyway. Teddy Fresh
allegedly had to lay off a third of its staff just before Christmas as it's just not shifting stock, and Ethan has been blowing loads of money on unnecessary lawsuits (like trying to sue H3 Snark out of existence). I kind of wonder if the pressure of the Kavanaugh defamation suit and their depleting funds are what was contributing to Ethan's nervous breakdown.
Something like this is CEO corpo cunt level of evil. Can you die of irony poisoning? Because i think i am overdosing. Put it in American Dad and Seth McFarlane would call it satire take downs of right wingers.
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