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Originally Posted by Wormius
I hope this isn't the trend. I don't know if this helps anybody when this route is followed. Buying victims' silence sends a bad message and will inevitably create future problems.
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That's going to be the strategy though.
It all comes down to numbers. Lets say that your a scumbag, and over your career in Hollywood you've abused or casting couched 50 woman with the promise of a career.
So you split it up. which ones are famous, which ones gave up and went home to Pudumski, Indiana.
So your slick lawyers show up at the restaurants or whatever that they're working with and have a check for $100,000 in exchange for your silence.
So you knock that number way down and your dealing with maybe half of those victims, and you offer them more and shave off more.
so lets say that you knock it down to 20, and then negotiate it down to 10. You're a hollywood biggidy big with lets say 50 or 100 million in the bank and you spend half of that.
So lets say you negotiate it down to 5. Before they can come forward you jump on and say that your sick and you need help and your going away to get help. Even with the come forwards of 5, you're statement and you going to rehab and apologizing publically and doing something to make it right, lets you control the narrative, and you go radio dark for a year and then come back and everyone has forgotten about it.
You also still have a bunch of money in the bank.
You can bet that this is going to be the strategy going forward. There's too much sympathy for the villains for you to stand there and call them liars and fight them and survive the release of details. So you play the contrition card, while working to reduce the number of complaints through quick and quiet settlements.