Ryan Reynolds is increasing his soccer empire!
The Deadpool & Wolverine star and his Wrexham AFC co-owner, Rob McElhenney, had been named Thursday, January 16, amongst a gaggle of buyers set to take excessive Colombian group, Membership Deportivo La Equidad Seguros.
In response to Bloomberg and ESPN, the group of buyers is led by actual property investor Al Tylis and soccer govt Sam Porter, who each personal a stake within the Mexican soccer group Necaxa. Different buyers embrace actress Eva Longoria, supermodel Kate Upton and Upton’s husband, MLB pitcher Justin Verlander.
“We welcome Al Tylis and Sam Porter, who arrive with a transparent, long-term imaginative and prescient to proceed strengthening our membership,” La Equidad shared in an announcement by way of X on Thursday. “This is step one in the direction of a future filled with alternatives.”
“Al Tylis and Sam Porter not solely have intensive expertise within the sports activities world however additionally they have the assist of acknowledged figures comparable to Eva Longoria, Rob McElhenney, Ryan Reynolds, Justin Verlander, Kate Upton, Shawn Marion and Scott Galloway,” the assertion continued.
Reynolds, 48, and McElhenney, 47, took over possession of Welsh group Wrexham in 2021, serving to the membership obtain worldwide visibility partially because of their FX docuseries, Welcome to Wrexham. Tylis purchased a small stake in Wrexham in April 2024, whereas Reynolds and McElhenney invested in Necaxa, reported Bloomberg.
Blake Vigorous and Justin Baldoni. Courtesy Sony Photos Ent.
Information of Reynolds’ newest funding got here the identical day as he was named a defendant in a $400 million lawsuit filed by Justin Baldoni, his spouse Blake Vigorous’s It Ends With Us costar and director.
In response to the submitting obtained by Us Weekly on Thursday, Baldoni, 40, is accusing Vigorous, 37, Reynolds, and Vigorous’s publicist, Leslie Sloane, of civil extortion, defamation, false gentle invasion of privateness and different claims. Within the swimsuit, Baldoni claimed he was pressured by Reynolds and a “megacelebrity good friend” of Vigorous’s to simply accept the actress’ modifications to the movie’s script.
UPDATE 1/16/25 at 12:43 p.m. ET: Justin Baldoni’s Wayfarer Studios filed a $400 million lawsuit towards It Ends With Us costar Blake Vigorous and her publicist, Leslie Sloane, on Thursday, January 16. Within the 179-page submitting obtained by Us Weekly, Baldoni claimed that Vigorous was “decided” to make him a “real-life villain in her story.” […]
Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, shared in an announcement to Us, “This lawsuit is a authorized motion based mostly on an awesome quantity of untampered proof detailing Blake Vigorous and her group’s duplicitous try to destroy Justin Baldoni, his group and their respective corporations by disseminating grossly edited, unsubstantiated, new and doctored data to the media.”
The assertion continued, “It’s clear based mostly on our personal all out willingness to supply all full textual content messages, emails, video footage and different documentary proof that was shared between the events in actual time, that it is a battle she is not going to win and will definitely remorse. Blake Vigorous was both severely misled by her group or deliberately and knowingly misrepresented the reality.”
Justin Baldoni’s authorized battle with It Ends With Us costar Blake Vigorous continues with a brand-new explosive lawsuit. In response to the submitting obtained by Us Weekly on Thursday, January 16, Baldoni, 40, is accusing Vigorous, 37, her publicist, Leslie Sloane, and Ryan Reynolds of civil extortion, defamation, false gentle invasion of privateness and different claims. […]
The lawsuit follows one filed by Vigorous towards Baldoni on December 31, 2024, accusing him of sexual harassment, retaliation, breach of contract, infliction of emotional misery, invasion of privateness and misplaced wages.
Us reached out to Vigorous’s rep, fellow defendant Sloane, for remark Thursday however didn’t hear again.
