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Blake Lively Filed A Sham Lawsuit. Is This Now A Criminal Case? | Candace Ep 179
Mon, 21 Apr 2025
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Chapter 1: What is Blake Lively’s sham lawsuit about?
And speaking of Easter, Sede Vacante, that is Latin for the seat is vacant. Yes, the Pope has passed away. We're going to speak about that, obviously. Plus, in case you missed it, Roseanne Barr did, after our show on Thursday, issue an apology for saying that she was going to knock me the F out. So we'll talk about that later.
But first, I am totally seized by the updates in the Ryan and Blake case. I think a lot of people may have missed it because it was Easter weekend and we were all doing, you know, family time and things that were more important. But in case you did miss what transpired on Friday, the case is now solved. And it's so much more ugly and more psychotic than any of us could have possibly envisioned.
Essentially, she got caught filing a sham lawsuit. Power tripping. This has got to be white collar crime. Let's get started. Welcome back to Candace. You guys, this is the last full week of the podcast before I go on leave. Crazy. Just crazy to think about that. Like I said, it's going to be so sad.
Sad for everyone except for Ryan Reynolds and Harley Pasternak and Blake Lively and Emmanuel Macron. They're probably counting down the days on a calendar like they're going on a Disney trip. Whatever. I'm going to miss you guys. They're not going to miss me. Where to begin with this?
So I'm assuming that regarding this Blake Ryan, Justin case, that things may have just transformed from civil to criminal. And I'll tell you why. And like I said, in case you somehow missed the updates over the weekend, don't worry. Sit down because this is going to be wild. It's unbelievable. Don't worry, because I'm also going to unpack it very slowly.
Of course, I've made a little timeline to make things easier because you likely need a refresher. There hasn't been much movement in this case. But without question, this is the most explosive update since it all began. It's the final piece of the puzzle. It pulls everybody in. The New York Times, the PR firms, Brian Friedman must be having an absolute field day.
And by the way, I want to say this could have all been avoided if they had listened to me when I told them, drop the lawsuits. Just drop. When you know you are doing nothing good, get out of doing the nothing good as soon as possible, especially when the whole world is watching and you've got mommy sleuths on the case. So remember, we had to work backwards with everything.
We didn't, if you were me at least, I didn't know who Justin Baldoni was. I didn't know Colleen Hoover. I didn't watch the movie. I just saw a crazy lawsuit being filed, a CRD complaint, looked shady, sounded weird. I'm not a big Me Too person. And then we kind of had to go backwards. Like, wait, what happened?
And then we were surprised because we saw the New York Times data and it looked like this was some sort of a plot. But there were still some elements that didn't make sense, which is... When Blake and Ryan began colluding with the New York Times, we didn't understand how exactly Stephanie Jones PR was able to give these messages to the New York Times ahead of time.
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Chapter 2: How was the sham lawsuit orchestrated and who was involved?
Like there was this missing piece of what Stephanie Jones was saying that she was complying with a subpoena. So I'm going to slowly remind you of who she is and why it's actually the most relevant piece of the entire puzzle. OK, so this is the PR chart, right? They start making this movie and Jones Work PR, which is run by Stephanie Jones. She's a coffee and Adderall is life woman.
OK, is doing the PR for Wayfarer Studios. That's Justin Baldoni, Steve Sarowitz. She is doing her. Her firm is doing the PR for this film. But she's not personally managing that PR. She has someone under her named Jennifer Abel, who you see there. And she is dealing with this, quote unquote, smaller account.
And by smaller account, I mean that while Stephanie Jones is out flying around with Jeff Bezos and his soon to be wife, Jennifer Abel is dealing with this little baby account that only earns them 20K a month for the firm. Jennifer Abel decides that she wants to leave this firm and she wants to start her own firm.
Justin Baldoni and Steve Sarowitz are like, we are going with you if you're going independent because you're the only one we even know at this firm. And we're happy to stay your little account. And Stephanie Jones is like, nah, that is not happening. I am Stephanie Jones. I'm married to a big wig over at WME. No one leaves Stephanie.
I mean, we're talking like toxic relationship with your employer. It doesn't matter what the reason is that someone wants to leave. They want to leave. Let them go. Goodbye. Okay. You can't have this sort of a relationship with your employees. Like, but she was under a lot of pressure and she thought, well, does this mean she's going to steal more clients from me? I may, Jennifer Abel.
No one leaves me and takes one of my clients. Okay. So despite the fact that Jennifer Abel gave six weeks notice, like I said, she was going to leave in July. She's like, you know, I'm not going to leave until August to give you time. Right before she's about to leave, Steph Jones calls her in. She's got a lawyer. She's got the chief level. I think it was the CEO there. She's got security.
And she's like, we need your phone because we have a subpoena that we're complying with. and we're taking your personal phone. Jennifer Abel's crying. She's like, I've had this phone number since high school. What do you mean? It has all my pictures, my Facebook, everything. And she's like, nah, hand over your phone right now. It's going down like this, okay?
She hands over her phone and there you have it. Suddenly these text messages that are in Jennifer Abel's personal phone end up in the New York Times. I had to just give you that backstory because you have to remember why it's so important. Now, the million dollar question for all of us that were looking at this was what subpoena was Stephanie Jones complying with? There was no lawsuit.
This went down in August, right? There was no lawsuit until December. What subpoena was she complying with? Well, we finally have our answer and it's positively shocking. Check out this headline. It reads, this is in the Daily Mail, revealed Blake Lively's super shady legal tactic that set off the war with Justin Baldoni before he even had a clue.
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Chapter 3: What timeline reveals the legal tactics behind the case?
They filed this lawsuit in September, the end of September, September 27th, 2024. That then allows, so that you guys understand, that then allows them to give it, any lawyer at that point can just write a subpoena, right? So the way that subpoenas work, just to remind you guys, remember I got that crazy subpoena regarding Kanye's lawsuit. Okay, so somebody filed a lawsuit against Kanye.
Then their lawyer wrote a subpoena And of course, a normal person is not going to comply with a ridiculous subpoena. So I'm not complying with that. I'm going to go, good luck getting a judge to sign off on this. You're not getting five years of my phone records because you had to watch the Batman with Kanye West. That's as in I'm not complying with that. Right.
But Stephanie, of course, then tried to pretend that she complied with it. But this was all being done backwards. She had already taken the phone. And that's why she never wanted to show anybody this subpoena. OK, that's why she was being weird, cagey. They wouldn't answer the lawsuit because they had hit it purposely because it's a sham.
Now let's get into Van Zandt Incorporated, the plaintiff that is listed and which they never wanted us to be able to uncover. So Van Zandt Incorporated has an address which is listed in New York City, 888 7th Avenue. crazy. I worked in that building for four years. I literally worked in exactly where this is. I used to work in private equity in that exact building.
So it's listed as 888 7th Avenue. You can see it says Blake Reynolds, Van Zandt Incorporated. It was formed in Delaware. That's very typical for an LLC. It says the type of business that they're engaged in is entertainment. We took a look at this and it looks like the firm that's working on behalf of them. Is it ML Schuyler? I'm going to have to look that up.
I think it's like ML Company or whatever. Yeah, ML Company. And you can see that their agent that they have listed here that is to accept service on behalf of this LLC is Eric Binder, okay? So the only business, when you look back through these documents of Van Zandt Incorporated, this is where it's going to get crazy. The only business that it was recorded as having completed...
was receiving two shipments, shipments of furniture and fabric and doors. OK, it was sent to Blake and Ryan's home in Westchester County. Now, why would they use an LLC to get Blake's? Honestly, that's kind of tax evasion. to be honest, unless they have an office, which they're working from, which they could in their Westchester home, but like they're actors and entertainers.
So that would be hard for me to imagine that they do. They're running it through an LLC for a tax benefit, which they're likely just doing renovations to their homes. Who knows? I'm not an IRS agent, but this is a really stupid thing to do. But they're running it through their business. They've received fabrics and doors to their Westchester home. Interestingly enough, it was shipped to
that fabric and doors was shipped to the name, because they probably don't want to put their name on it, Molly Caro. Okay, this is the only business action. If you go through Van Zandt Incorporated documents, it shows you that this was shipped to Molly Caro on behalf of Blake. Now, who is Molly Caro? Very important. She is the PR officer that works for Vision PR. Let's pull up our PR thing again.
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Chapter 4: What are the legal implications and potential criminal charges?
Chapter 5: Who are the key players in the PR firms and their roles?
On August 21st, that's when Stephanie Jones confiscates Jennifer Abel's phone. OK, we're going to get skip the August 29th when we're going to get to that later. Then on September 27th, a sham lawsuit is filed. Now, what sham lawsuit are we talking about? I want to skip ahead and show you this because what went down and I'm going to tell you, this is me reading into the situation now.
was they took her phone, they were going to hand it to the New York Times, and then somebody in the group, maybe it's Ryan Reynolds, I think it's Ryan Reynolds, says, whoa, whoa, whoa, was that legal? We have the messages and we're going to go to press and we're going to fight this in the New York Times, but can we get in trouble?
And they all scrambled on the back end and they said, holy crap, we need to pretend that there's a real subpoena. Otherwise, you maybe just stole your employee's phone and now we're about to go to the New York Times.
So they actually found a lawyer to give them advice and to tell them how to file a fake lawsuit so that they could use that fake lawsuit to pretend that they legally took Jennifer Abel's phone. Okay. So they find a woman and somehow they hit up this attorney, Samantha Katz. She is the moron that involved herself. She's got a face like a moron, right? She just looks like a moron.
Decides to involve herself in this plot. This is the unknown individual that she works for Manette, Phelps and Phillips, which is in New York City. And she devised with her clients to file this lawsuit, which prior to last week, nobody could find. And I'll tell you why, because look at this. The plaintiff is Van Zandt Incorporated.
This is an LLC that is owned by Blake Reynolds that nobody would have known to look for. We're going to get more into the details of that. Right. And a couple of things that you should know about the Van Zandt lawsuit. You're looking right here. There's no defendants listed. It just says the lawsuit lists 10 Jane Doe's. So they didn't list any defendants.
It's just like anonymous 10 people that were filing a lawsuit against. We are Van Zandt LLC. The language throughout the lawsuit is intentionally vague because they never wanted the public to find it. OK, they never want to find this is again. They're trying to work backwards to legitimatize something that they likely stole. So I'm going to read you directly from this sham lawsuit.
It writes, it accuses the 10 Jane Does of, quote, "...they have participated and may continue to participate in efforts to harm plaintiff, including by failing to act in plaintiff's best interests, taking actions to their personal benefit at plaintiff's expense."
failing to freely communicate with plaintiff regarding matters that impact plaintiff's business and reputation and disclosing to third parties and failing to keep strictly confidential plaintiff's confidential and or private information. This is just words like Samantha Katz, OK, was just typing words so that they could get a lawsuit filed that they never intended to do anything but drop.
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Chapter 6: What does the connection between Blake Lively’s LLC and Taylor Swift reveal?
Chapter 7: When did the Pope pass away and what does it mean for the world?
Then their lawyer wrote a subpoena And of course, a normal person is not going to comply with a ridiculous subpoena. So I'm not complying with that. I'm going to go, good luck getting a judge to sign off on this. You're not getting five years of my phone records because you had to watch the Batman with Kanye West. That's as in I'm not complying with that. Right.
But Stephanie, of course, then tried to pretend that she complied with it. But this was all being done backwards. She had already taken the phone. And that's why she never wanted to show anybody this subpoena. OK, that's why she was being weird, cagey. They wouldn't answer the lawsuit because they had hit it purposely because it's a sham.
Now let's get into Van Zandt Incorporated, the plaintiff that is listed and which they never wanted us to be able to uncover. So Van Zandt Incorporated has an address which is listed in New York City, 888 7th Avenue. crazy. I worked in that building for four years. I literally worked in exactly where this is. I used to work in private equity in that exact building.
So it's listed as 888 7th Avenue. You can see it says Blake Reynolds, Van Zandt Incorporated. It was formed in Delaware. That's very typical for an LLC. It says the type of business that they're engaged in is entertainment. We took a look at this and it looks like the firm that's working on behalf of them. Is it ML Schuyler? I'm going to have to look that up.
I think it's like ML Company or whatever. Yeah, ML Company. And you can see that their agent that they have listed here that is to accept service on behalf of this LLC is Eric Binder, okay? So the only business, when you look back through these documents of Van Zandt Incorporated, this is where it's going to get crazy. The only business that it was recorded as having completed...
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Chapter 8: What was Roseanne Barr’s apology and why is it significant?
was receiving two shipments, shipments of furniture and fabric and doors. OK, it was sent to Blake and Ryan's home in Westchester County. Now, why would they use an LLC to get Blake's? Honestly, that's kind of tax evasion. to be honest, unless they have an office, which they're working from, which they could in their Westchester home, but like they're actors and entertainers.
So that would be hard for me to imagine that they do. They're running it through an LLC for a tax benefit, which they're likely just doing renovations to their homes. Who knows? I'm not an IRS agent, but this is a really stupid thing to do. But they're running it through their business. They've received fabrics and doors to their Westchester home. Interestingly enough, it was shipped to
that fabric and doors was shipped to the name, because they probably don't want to put their name on it, Molly Caro. Okay, this is the only business action. If you go through Van Zandt Incorporated documents, it shows you that this was shipped to Molly Caro on behalf of Blake. Now, who is Molly Caro? Very important. She is the PR officer that works for Vision PR. Let's pull up our PR thing again.
Who's Vision PR? That's Leslie Sloan's PR firm. Who are Leslie Sloan's clients? Here's our chart. Leslie Sloan's clients are Blake and Ryan. So we have now just connected these two PR firms that were both involved in filing this sham lawsuit. Molly Caro, was the person that works with this LLC, works with her clients, Leslie Slick. This is a disaster for them.
Molly Caro has since wiped all her socials. Girlfriend, if you are watching and looking, it is too late. The sleuths are on it. They've put everything. There's Reddit feeds. You are done-zo. Just come forward and say that you did bad crimes. This company should be like, I did bad crimes.
My name is Molly Carroll and I did bad stuff because I was high on the supply of A-listers and didn't think we'd get caught. Molly Carroll also has an interesting connection to Taylor Swift, which I love because she's also involved. I'm not buying this whole, she just wants to be private and her and her boyfriend are hiding. No, Taylor Swift is smart. She knows when she's too close to the sun.
Molly Caro is also listed as the producer for Taylor Swift's video, I Bet You'll Think About Me, which Taylor's version, which was directed by Blake Lively. And Molly Caro is also listed as an extra in the All Too Well short film, which was Taylor Swift's other song, All Too Well, both directed by Blake Lively.
So there's a connection here between all of the players that we have seen involved and this sham lawsuit. These are just the facts, okay? Case closed, my friends. We got Leslie Sloan PR. Vision PR or her PR firm, rather Vision PR colluding with Stephanie Jones PR.
And they filed this sham lawsuit because they're going, crap, we took this phone and we got these messages, but we have to make sure it's above board. And so they got this Samantha Katz woman to file this lawsuit as quickly as humanly possible. Because then they could pretend publicly that Stephanie Jones was just complying with a subpoena. No, you weren't just complying with the subpoena.
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