Ryan Reynolds is increasing his soccer empire!
The Deadpool & Wolverine star and his Wrexham AFC co-owner, Rob McElhenney, have been named Thursday, January 16, amongst a gaggle of traders set to take excessive Colombian workforce, Membership Deportivo La Equidad Seguros.
In response to Bloomberg and ESPN, the group of traders is led by actual property investor Al Tylis and soccer govt Sam Porter, who each personal a stake within the Mexican soccer workforce Necaxa. Different traders embody 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 stuffed with alternatives.”
“Al Tylis and Sam Porter not solely have in depth expertise within the sports activities world however additionally they have the assist of acknowledged figures equivalent 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 ownership of Welsh team Wrexham in 2021, serving to the membership obtain worldwide visibility partly 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.
Information of Reynolds’ newest funding got here the same day as he was named a defendant in a $400 million lawsuit filed by Justin Baldoni, his spouse Blake Energetic’s It Ends With Us costar and director.
In response to the filing obtained by Us Weekly on Thursday, Baldoni, 40, is accusing Energetic, 37, Reynolds, and Energetic’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 friend” of Energetic’s to simply accept the actress’ adjustments to the movie’s script.
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 Energetic and her workforce’s duplicitous try to destroy Justin Baldoni, his workforce 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 Energetic was both severely misled by her workforce or deliberately and knowingly misrepresented the reality.”
The lawsuit follows one filed by Lively against 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 Energetic’s rep, fellow defendant Sloane, for remark Thursday however didn’t hear again.
Ryan Reynolds is increasing his soccer empire!
The Deadpool & Wolverine star and his Wrexham AFC co-owner, Rob McElhenney, have been named Thursday, January 16, amongst a gaggle of traders set to take excessive Colombian workforce, Membership Deportivo La Equidad Seguros.
In response to Bloomberg and ESPN, the group of traders is led by actual property investor Al Tylis and soccer govt Sam Porter, who each personal a stake within the Mexican soccer workforce Necaxa. Different traders embody 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 stuffed with alternatives.”
“Al Tylis and Sam Porter not solely have in depth expertise within the sports activities world however additionally they have the assist of acknowledged figures equivalent 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 ownership of Welsh team Wrexham in 2021, serving to the membership obtain worldwide visibility partly 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.
Information of Reynolds’ newest funding got here the same day as he was named a defendant in a $400 million lawsuit filed by Justin Baldoni, his spouse Blake Energetic’s It Ends With Us costar and director.
In response to the filing obtained by Us Weekly on Thursday, Baldoni, 40, is accusing Energetic, 37, Reynolds, and Energetic’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 friend” of Energetic’s to simply accept the actress’ adjustments to the movie’s script.
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 Energetic and her workforce’s duplicitous try to destroy Justin Baldoni, his workforce 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 Energetic was both severely misled by her workforce or deliberately and knowingly misrepresented the reality.”
The lawsuit follows one filed by Lively against 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 Energetic’s rep, fellow defendant Sloane, for remark Thursday however didn’t hear again.