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.
ROTFLMAO. I watched a couple of his shows when my son was little.
The only one that stuck in my head was the one on ice cores. He had a great chart on the cycles of the ice ages and warm periods. however, because of man he projected that the heat would go off the chart because of global warming (the show was on before they started saying climate change) so his last spike actually went off the chart and was 4 times as high as the previous spike.
The guy is a bloody sadist scaring the bejeebers out of kids. If I ever see him I’m going to smack him on the back of his head.
How much was Mr. Wizard paid?
For all the lies and frauds he has propagated his fair share should be 0 if not jail time.
>>>but is the homophobia really necessary?<<<
Homophobia is a Leftist term as is Transphobia. You deny People their God Given Right of Free Association by labeling them with Leftist Alinsky labels.
In case you missed it, people who do not go along with Militant Homosexuality are driven to Government sanctioned Financial Ruin and in fear of their lives if they refuse to Condone it.
That is the issue, not Homosexuality in itself. Homosexuality has existed since the Dawn of Man, so has Polygamy. That doesn’t mean you have to like it.
Open a Bakery and say no to making a Wedding Cake for a Gay Wedding due to your Religious convictions.
Then say no to Baking a Cake for a Nazi’s Wedding due to your Political convictions. Heck, refuse to Bake a Cake for a Trump Victory Party.
Then tell us which refusal ruins your Business, Financial and Personal Life. Liberty died in 1964.
One other thing for the record.
I know and have known Gay People all my Life.
I am 64 Years Old and met my first Gay “Couple” when I was five Years old. This isn’t a new Fad.
Nobody had to tell me they were Gay, which wasn’t even a word used to describe them back then. They were just who they were and nobody cared.
They were wonderful People who were Tenants of my Grandmother. They looked after her when she was getting up in Years. We always had a good time when we Visited my Grandmother and they showed up. Like I said, nobody cared.
My Father’s 2nd Cousin was a Lesbian, and we loved her just the same. There was no Agenda, all these people were just living their lives. The Goalposts moved, not us.
Haha, I think he’s jealous. :D
That much paper causes global warming.
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