Posted on 08/25/2017 9:01:23 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Bill Nye is suing the Walt Disney Company and a host of its subsidiaries today for more than $37 million, alleging he didn’t receive his fair share of the net profits generated by his long-running series Bill Nye the Science Guy.
“Plaintiff is informed and believes and thereon alleges that as a direct and proximate result of the Defendants’ breach of fiduciary duty, Plaintiff has suffered damages in the amount of not less than Nine Million Three Hundred Fifty Thousand Five Hundred Sixty dollars (USD$9,350,565.00), the final amount to be proven at trial,” says the complaint, dropping some big bucks demands (read it here).
And then the big bucks get bigger, like three times bigger.
“Plaintiff is further informed and believes and thereon alleges that the Defendants, by breaching their fiduciary duties, enriched themselves, at the expense of the Plaintiff and the BNSG Owners, obtaining ill-gotten profits of not less than Twenty Eight Million Fifty One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Five dollars (USD$28,051,695.00),” Nye does some math at Disney’s expense that alleges to be at his expense.
The 28-page suit, filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court , says that Nye received a check in April 2008 for $585,000 as his share of the net profits. However, a few months later, Buena Vista Television sent a second letter retracting its prior calculations. According to the second letter, Nye instead owed BTV $496,111.
Deadline has reached out to Disney for comment but has not heard back.
Bill Nye the Science Guy ran on PBS from 1994 to 1999 and also was syndicated to local stations. The show aired for 100 half-hour episodes spanning five seasons and was nominated for 23 Emmy Awards, winning 19
Rex/Shutterstock The suit that Nye and his lawyers put before the court contends that “the disturbing size of the supposed ‘accounting error,’ coupled with the seeming indifference of both BVT and WDC, left Nye suspicious of the veracity of the accounting.”
Nye claims that he stopped receiving royalty or participation payments as of July 22, 2008, with the suit stating accountants insisting that he first repay the amount allegedly owed from the “overpayment.”
Formally, Nye’s action claims fraudulent concealment, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of the convenent of good faith and fair dealing, and various accounting issues.
On the attorney front, Nye is represented by Burbank’s Hamrick & Evans LLP.
Then Bill Nye fits in perfectly. As far as Nye getting ripped off for millions by Disney? My guess is he has a v good case.
Do you have any idea what a phobia is? I have a strong dislike for homosexuality and it's deleterious effects on our culture. I do not in any way fear it.
Nye is upset that Owl Gore is making bank pretending to be an informed scientist, while Crazy Bill can’t get paid as big for his faking.
Yes, but it is a Bachelor of “Science” degree in mechanical Engineering..../s
Seriously, what people do in their own personal life is not your concern. Some couples roll-play, some watch porn, some strictly make love, some sleep apart, and I’m sure every other permutation under the moon occurs every night all across the earth...including whatever it is that you do.
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Bill Nye didn’t have a show that said “keep it private”. It was more like “parades for all paraphilias!”
The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won’t shut the hell up.
First off, it isn’t homophobia, it’s disgust! And yes, if people are going to demand that we know what they do “behind closed doors”, then people have a right to give them an opinion about those actions.
If “it’s no ones business”, then why the hell bring it out of the closet or bedroom or slave room or whatever fetish-haven in which those actions take place? Disney is PUSHING this as a normal, everyone should be okay with it, lifestyle, and people have a right to disagree and be disgusted.
Disagreeing with someone’s lifestyle choices concerning homosexuality doesn’t make them “homophobic”, it makes them DISGUSTED with their life choices.
If you decide to “let it go”, congratulations. However, if someone else doesn’t like a business pushing wild fetish ideas onto the public, especially using a company with such broad appeal to small children, I think they have a right to stand-up for their beliefs.
Why can’t you “let it go” and allow people to have an opposing view?
He had a BS minor........or a minor in BS...................
Can I hope BOTH of them lose?
He majors in BS now....
Yes. :D
Does Disney own all the Science Guy crap? If so they should send it all to the black hole of oblivion and make this clowns persona disappear. On the one hand it would be just the kind of backstabbing move Disney has become known for since Walt died and on the other it would be a wonderful thing for it to become Bill Nye the Science who?
Most homosexuals were sexually molested as children.
They seek to promote and normalize their behavior to attain easier access to sexually molest our children.
THAT is why we object to the promotion!
I have another dozen sources if the 2 below aren’t enough.
>https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/deceit-and-lies-we-have-been-told-on-homosexuality<
The science guy is a fraud. Dolph Lundgren even has a better and an actual science background.
Disney should counter sue him for being a fraud himself.
First off, it isn’t homophobia, it’s disgust! And yes, if people are going to demand that we know what they do “behind closed doors”, then people have a right to give them an opinion about those actions.
That’s actually a pretty reasonable point.....
So does this mean we will no longer see that loon on TV?
Hope so.
I hope the trial ends in a victory for the average American. That is, when a sweet meteor takes out all parties involved.
>>...is the homophobia really necessary?
Homophobia is a lying word. What I have is the creeps.
I used to strongly support faggots back in the 70’s and 80’s because people just want to be free to do whatever they want to do in the privacy of their own bedrooms, and nobody has a right to complain if it doesn’t impact them. I’m all for freedom, for everyone! Even the mentally ill.
But then came the huge impact of disease that is rampant in that community. And then the lies that the diseases aren’t their fault! That takes away my freedom.
And then came the fact that homosexuals have now become Fascist monsters trying to tear down the fabric of society. That takes away my freedom. Now that people like me have mistakenly given them political clout, they will destroy anyone who speaks ill of them, and truth be damned.
“...but is the homophobia really necessary”
The problem is not the gay individual, living their life quietly like the rest of us, it is the militants with the agenda of forcing EVERYONE not only to accept their life-style as “normal”, but to celebrate it. And if you dare point out that homosexuality is not “normal”, you are excoriated, ridiculed, and ostracized.
Capiche?
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