People on X missing the point with this book. JD fans saying he has moved on and this dredges it up etc.
The book has direct quotes from his employees, they’ve been interviewed by this journalist. Everyone who works for him will has signed privacy agreements regards his personal life…the very fact that they’ve been interviewed means he’s approved this. That doesn’t mean he’s approved the end result, just the process of being involved.
The oddity is that it’s taken 3 years to publish. Maybe there have been legal concerns causing a delay. As long as JD himself doesn’t give an interview post the date of the settlement agreement (December 2022) then he is safe from any legal action from AH. It’s possible he was interviewed but it’s all been removed due to legal concern.
There may also have been concern of the risk of AH trying to sue others for defamation for telling these stories outside of court (like she did Doug Stanhope), but I doubt she would bother trying to now as she will look petty and also if JD bankrolls anyone’s defence or they have good insurance, the cost will all fall on her, and they may then also be able to recover legal costs from her.
I don’t think she’s as wealthy as many believe. She has the townhouse in Madrid, but there is no evidence of lavish holidays, she’s even been seen flying commercial and photographed eating outside a cheap cafe. For her daughter’s birthday she called the paps on herself and stood in the street holding basic balloons and a cake. She probably likes the attention, but also she’s clearly calling them and as it’s arranged she may even get a small payment for it. All reeks of desperation.
If Elon isn’t the baby daddy, then money will be running out fast. If he is, he may have stipulations on how the money he pays her can be used to ensure it benefits the children which would exclude petty legal disputes which don’t concern the children at all.
Her fans do her no favours. Many of them say vile things, wish harm on others, say JD deserved to be abused because she is prettier, tell very blatant lies about the legal cases and evidence. Many people on X say these are bots. But that doesn’t make sense, they are making her look worse not better, many are so unhinged.
JD overwhelmingly won on public opinion. Where he really loses out is with the media. The reason they can’t change their stance is because the case threw into question the moral behaviour of the media declaring, or strongly implying, guilt of a serious crime without any evidence or due process. That in itself, if they had to change their ways, would empty their newspapers, if they actually had to check something was true before writing it, is catastrophic for the media industry.
A lot of these feminist journalists who say it was wrong that he could take her to court over spreading unproved accusations via the media, are the same people who make a living out of writing such stories. They don’t want that jeopardised. That’s why, no matter how much proof or how many court cases are won, they won’t back down on the idea that AH was entitled to make accusation via the media, regardless of whether truthful, and face no legal repercussions.
I do find it interesting that the people who want men’s right to sue an accuser taken away, done also want the equivalent taken away for women. AH tried to sue Doug Stanhope, then tried to sue JD, then countersued when he sued her. Either defamation by accusing or denying information about relationships/domestic violence is acceptable in legal terms or it’s not. Imagine if AH had been able to make the progress on suing JD for defamation purely for stating he didn’t do as he was accused and he lost in court. The feminists wouldn’t have any issue with that and indeed would celebrate her victory.
The other thing journalists seem to miss entirely, and intentionally, is the fact that the only reason the trial was streamed is because the court received more requests for journalist access than they could manage fairly. So it was the media that caused it to be streamed, then the media responded to that by claiming that it damaged women’s rights etc.