Tobias is suing Jonathan. I know that someone’s going to bring it up anyway, so I’m starting a thread with a caveat: if you want to discuss this, keep it professional. Don’t rant about H&FJ’s legal history or either of the guys involved. If you want to get catty do so on twitter, that’s what it’s for.
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HAMM: Scoundrel! Why did you engender me?
NAGG: I didn't know.
HAMM: What? What didn't you know?
NAGG: That it'd be you.
A son unwanted by his father only after the fact, yet the two are entirely codependent. A partner who wasn't really a partner, who hung on for years disbelieving the flimsiness of his position. Ouch.
I don't think the numbers are totally ridiculous, insofar as the partnership (such as it was) had far more value than the sum of its parts, and very promising future earnings. There are apartments in NYC that sell for half again more than $80 million, so the number wouldn't seem extreme to a NYC court or jury.
There's a lot that isn't clear yet, but the weirdness of it all is so extreme that I wonder if it can be settled out of court. I suppose we have to be grateful to H&FJ for giving us our very own courtroom drama.