Celebrity NDAs: Guess the Celebrities!

[shangri__la]

“I thought it was weird he asked for it after we’d been doing drugs and getting wasted, like, This is the moment you ask for an NDA?”

If you want to hook up with a celebrity, you might have to sign away your right to ever talk about it. https://t.co/pSXOekXPU3
- BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) June 7, 2021
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Comments

[missjersey]

Fun fact: NDAs do not protect illegal activities folks.

[unintentionalty]

If one's got a juicy enough story I'm not sure a non-nefarious (i.e., purely for protection of privacy) NDA would really help either.

[insomniachobs]

It basically becomes a matter of how much are they willing to pay you for the story vs how much you'd be liable for if you were successfully sued

[unintentionalty]

Correct, and if there's any embarrassment factor that cat will be out of the bag and no lawsuit will fix it.

[gloeden2]

The NDAs I've heard of through public information, have 7 to 8 figure penalty clauses. I'm talking for household staff and personal assistants. No gossip rag will pay you that much or cover your lawyer fees at that level. It simply wouldn't be worth it to be found out as the source of a rumor or story. And NDAs are scary because you can be kept in court, with a gag order on you, for years, and then still lose and have to pay. And, to use a hackneyed expression, you'll never work in the industry again, even if you were in the right.

[unintentionalty]

Per the article itself, NDAs are different for employees because they're receiving financial compensation in exchange so that's a real contract, whereas the "I barely know you but pls don't gossip" NDA is not tied to a sufficient enough exchange (because partying with a celeb is not a "value" you're receiving and counting sex as a received value is legally dicey) so it's unlikely to be enforceable.