Hollywood Domination Chapter 293: Reverse proposal
IRS——, the Internal Revenue Service of the United States is also one of the most powerful and mysterious government agencies in the United States. It is closely related to the lives of American citizens. As long as you are an American, as long as you have income, then you must Paying taxes, and tax evasion is not a low-cost matter, because IRS can directly freeze your assets without the consent of the court. It can be said that this is an institution with great power and almost no checks and balances, especially for the rich. , They even talked about the irs discoloration, and the reason is very simple: almost no wealthy person in the United States is not avoiding taxes. If there is a company, then there will be more unclear accounts. It is almost difficult for irs to check When no evidence can be found, not to mention the high fines to be paid at that time, the most annoying thing is that the entire assets are frozen and the turnover remains unchanged.
Of course, such situations are not very common, because irs is not an institution that abuses power extremely, and its internal management is also quite strict, and they also have to weigh the cost of investigation actions and final profits, which is not very good for some issues Seriously, the evidence is not easy to collect, and the irs has no motivation to discover all tax evaders. Therefore, for ordinary people, as long as they find an accounting firm, as long as they are not too unlucky, they will generally not be marked with the irs. Even if there is a problem, an accountant will come forward to negotiate.
Jenny has her own accountant since she signed with Cesare. Of course, she avoids taxes, but they are all within the reasonable range. Dameng did not use illegal means to evade taxes. The tax avoidance methods used are at most a little Gray... Falsely reporting some shooting costs and so on, of course it is reasonable, after all, making movies was once one of the major means of laundering money, but it will not leave too many loopholes for IRS, of course, no The company likes to hear that she is being targeted by the IRS, but even if the IRS is really investigating Dameng, Jenny believes that Dameng will not be in too much trouble. ——It stands to reason that she and Cesare are walking upright and sitting upright, but in fact, there is no need to be too afraid of IRS...
"Who do you think is messing with us?" After breaking up with Harvey, Jenny did not continue to stay in the company, but returned to the hotel with Cesare—when their car drove out of the company Well, some paparazzi took pictures of her and Cesare very enthusiastically, but judging from their demeanor, at least most of the paparazzi didn’t take her and Cesare’s affair seriously, but Jenny didn’t think what Harvey said It's just a lie. Hollywood paparazzi have always been very powerful. From the day they consulted the county attorney, and the county attorney inadvertently leaked the news, it was only a matter of time before the paparazzi knew the news, and it has been delayed until now. It has not been reported to the outside world, probably because there is no real evidence yet. But now the undercurrent under the water has begun to surge, and a few more sticks have begun to stir in the water, which is also an indisputable fact.
Cesare didn't answer Jenny's question right away, and he's obviously been thinking about it—although Harvey reminded them just now, and judging from his firm attitude, it wasn't an empty threat (Jenny certainly didn't think he has a reason to lie), but refused to disclose the source of the news, but told them in an ambiguous manner that this was an old friend who revealed to him. When this 'old friend' found him, Harvey and Dameng wanted to The news of the start of cooperation in the Olympics of "Monroe" has not yet spread. The outside world thought that the relationship between Dameng and Weinstein was gradually estranged. After Weinstein wanted to join "Monroe" and was rejected, he and Dameng Meng was only one time away from publicly falling out.
"No matter who it is, this person is very ruthless." Without waiting for Cesare's answer, Jenny was unwilling to remain silent. She strode back and forth on the carpet and said angrily, "And to We also understand quite well. He knows what the ownership structure of Dreams means, and what we are most afraid of now. irs may be just the beginning, and then someone may really want to reveal your identity as the founder It's time for the media."
——Yes, this is what Dameng is most afraid of now. In fact, logically speaking, it is not illegal for Cesare to invest 5 million in any company, and there is nothing to be afraid of when IRS comes to investigate. Even if his offshore transactions and his marriage with Jenny were to evade taxes, without real evidence, it is impossible for the irs to freeze their property. Even the internal operation of the Dream has always been well-regulated, but it would be too one-sided if you only look at the matter from this perspective—when Cesare had five or six million assets and he invested them in an "overseas investment fund" At the same time, Dameng ushered in a capital injection of 5 million, and a shareholder who only injected 5 million, got half of the equity at that time, and never showed up in the company. This fact, coupled with the fact that Cesare has actually managed Dameng for many years, even if he has been careful enough, will always leave some clues, and the revelation that Cesare is actually the joint venture founder of Dameng, is enough to give caa As well as any star or director who is represented by CAA and whose business has intersected with Dameng provides materials for a lawsuit with Cesare and Dameng, and the next thing has nothing to do with IRS, commercial detectives and those civil servants Litigation lawyers will naturally go out of their way to find out the real source of funds of this offshore company. As long as they can return to Cesare in the end, Da Meng will definitely have to pay a huge price to settle the matter, otherwise he will wait. Beat the lawsuit to death. After all, the United States stipulates that agents cannot be in the production business at the same time, because they are afraid that your agent will be an athlete and a referee at the same time, and sign cheap contracts to damage the rights and interests of the represented clients. And it is impossible for Dameng not to have a relationship with CAA. In addition to CAA's actors, they also act as directors and even screenwriters. In the past few years, Dameng has signed countless packaging contracts with CAA.
Using lawsuits to consume fast-growing competitors is very common for large companies, so Jenny still puts the suspect in the top six, but the annoying thing about this is that the suspect It is not very sure, because there are not many people in the industry who know that Cesare is important in Dameng. As long as the companies that have cooperated with Dameng have their own guesses, it is caa's CEO Ino Martin. This must be well known, otherwise the relationship between him and Cesare would not gradually ease with the steady development of the dream—although Jenny’s momentum has been rising, Cesare did not force Ino, nor did he Expanding his business scope is obviously distracting, and Ino must be very happy to see the results, wishing to send Cesare to work in the promising dream the next day.
"In the past few years, Yinuo has definitely given you the green light, and may even take the initiative to cover for you," she quickly analyzed as she walked, "but he cannot be ruled out as a suspect now, because you He has already left caa, if he still has resentment about the past—"
"It won't be Ino," Cesare shook his head and broke the silence for the first time. In contrast to Jenny's impatience and anger, he was extremely calm and calm, as if he was discussing It's like the excitement on others, and it's almost irrelevant to take over the topic and start to analyze, "Ino's character is more suspicious and sensitive, I have only been away from CAA for a few months, and Ino is still busy with the big clients I left behind, Until he has swallowed my inheritance completely, he will not find trouble for himself. When he has digested the inheritance, even if there is any resentment, it will have dissipated. In essence, Yinuo is a businessman, a big dream It is rising very fast now, and your brokerage contract is still in CAA, he will not make things difficult for CAA's big clients."
Jenny's current agency contract is indeed still with CAA, and Cesare did not take her away, but her contract with CAA is quite broad, and the agency fee is very low, which is just a symbolic figure. If it is herself For the contact business, CAA doesn't even take a cut. Keeping Jenny is just to keep the superstar's signature and attract more popularity for CAA-there must be countless scripts looking for Jenny to star in every year. It is an invalid resource, but it is a very valuable mine for CAA who represents b-r, c-r or even unknown people. Some Jenny does not act, they can recommend others to act, so even if they do not charge agency fees, they all hope Jenny can stay, but for Jenny, the channel for her receiving scripts is not controlled by CAA, and she has also established a very complete circle of contacts, so this agency relationship is not a loss for her, and the right is the starting point Qian asked entertainment lawyers to consider the contract. When Dameng and CAA cooperate, this relationship can also help reduce some agency fees and achieve the effect of actually reducing quotations.
From this point of view, caa really has no reason to hope that Dameng will be in trouble. As the CEO, Eno cannot take revenge for a little old competitive relationship. Instead, he should hope that Dameng will prosper. Has strong caa coloring, which is also important to them. —— These reasons Cesare clicked a little bit, and Jenny understood, "So, now the suspects are concentrated on the Big Six and my heavyweight competitors, because only they can ask IRS to do this Attacking the fortified troops, isn't it?"
As the Internal Revenue Service, irs has much higher authority than commercial detectives like wild dogs. If there is enough evidence, they can directly intervene in Dameng's internal accounts. Jenny is really not sure that the internal capital flow is traced overseas, and then traced back to Cesare from overseas. She and Cesare are just ordinary businessmen. At that time, it was only a small company. The standards of the drug gangs are required, and the daily work of irs is to deal with these criminal groups with many and hidden methods of money laundering. She really doesn't know how clever their methods are, and whether they will directly find Chesa The truth of Lei's capital injection plunged Dameng into the trouble of litigation, and made her fall into the quagmire of "knowing the law and breaking the law".
"It won't be your competitor either," Cesare shook his head and said calmly, "It's already late January, and the Oscars are just a few weeks away, and if your competitor wants to hit you, it should be Launched the offensive earlier. I left my job and joined Dream in October. If someone really wants to use this incident as a blow point, they can do it as early as October. In this way, you are still likely to be affected by the scandal. Setbacks on the award journey. Jenny, you have to learn to analyze the hidden information in the dialogue. Harvey has actually hinted a lot. When he was approached, 'Weinstein and the big dream will be on the "Monroe" Olympic Games The news of the cooperation has not spread', which means that the time must be between us and Harvey reaching an agreement and Harvey officially launching the public relations activities, which is only a short period of 5 or 6 days."
He opened his calendar on the computer and turned to the date of 'Negotiation with Harvey', "This is December 26, so our opponent approached Harvey in the last week of last year. Hope Cooperation, you have to find his motivation a few days ago."
Cesare's mouse moved forward for a while, and Jenny's eyes followed him, and she suddenly realized, "December 25 is the release date of "Monroe" and "Marley and Me" ...The box office of these two films made the opponent very uncomfortable... people from the Sixth National University."
"Of course it's the top six." Cesare opened a new page, "This is last year's box office statistics. Big Dream is seventh, which is quite close to the sixth Disney headquarters—— But I suggest that we don't think about who is going to make up the big dream for the time being. I found that this is a habit of yours. Once you are attacked, you are very keen to find the mastermind and take revenge-"
He glanced at Jenny, and Jenny smiled a little embarrassedly, thinking of the struggle she had with a female lead whose name she couldn't remember when she starred in the musical "Chicago". habit.
"But when the market share of Dameng is close to the top six, we must be aware and prepared to be attacked at any time, and the relationship between the company and the company cannot simply follow the 'you shoot me, I shoot you One arrow's original logic, if this was done by Disney to weaken the big dream, make us in trouble, unable to plan independence, what can we do? We obviously can't break up with Disney immediately, and you can't make a hurt decision Any efforts in this area will escalate the war, and even our lives will be in danger." Cesare said succinctly, "Compared with dealing with the enemy, at this stage, Dameng should pursue self-protection more. Why do you suggest that we start preparing some cover-up work, if we must use a marriage to completely solve the weakness of equity ownership, then this marriage should undoubtedly be impeccable, at least it cannot become another weakness of ours.”
Jenny nodded wordlessly, this is indeed a topic they have already discussed, and this is why Cesare started to spend the night in her presidential suite, although they slept separately, it still seemed to outsiders It is proof of stay. At present, this has not attracted the attention of the media. After all, there are many opportunities and reasons for stars and agents to live together, but if the marriage is unfortunately exposed, this is very convincing evidence.
"However, at present, it seems to be more risky to continue our original idea," Cesare continued, his hands gathered into a tower shape, and his chin was pressed-this is his usual way of thinking Posture, "If the other party wants to open a breakthrough in me, then a marriage seems to make everything more complicated, and when we were discussing before, we did not expect the box office of "Monroe" and "Twilight" to be so good , according to the box office revenue of Big Dream in this quarter, Big Dream can earn more than 200 million in the settlement period after half a year. This is only a conservative estimate, because overseas dividends are not included in the calculation. If the amount in the shore account is also enough to buy shares in Disney, then there is no urgent motivation for this marriage.”
"But it also means that you still can't use your part of the dividend." Jenny blurted out, "And as time goes by, the friction between us and the six majors will intensify, and this problem will become more and more difficult to solve. "
Cesare made a noncommittal expression, but did not answer Jenny's words, and the silence slowly fell, covering the reception room of the suite.
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If Jenny is asked to express her views on this marriage, she can only respond with a wry smile - fake love and fake engagement for the sake of career may still be within her acceptable range, but fake marriage has nothing to do with consumption. Sidney, like her relationship, is more or less an act that touches Jenny's bottom line. The only thing that made her feel a little bit better about this incident was that the fake marriage was not for her own career, but to help Cesare, and this was the reason why she finally agreed: she did not agree to it due to emotion or reason. The reason for the refusal, even without considering the relationship between the two of them for many years of support, and Cesare's character of rarely asking for help, from a political point of view, if Cesare can't get his own at no cost like her, Dividends, if he has to wash this part of his income forever, then it is obvious that he will not regard the big dream as his main business, and he will never be able to settle down to develop the company with peace of mind.
Of course, Dameng can carry out a series of complex reorganizations to solve this problem, so that Cesare, whose identity has been washed, can get his own money and legally become a shareholder of the company, but the cost of doing so is high, Jenny It is not sure whether Disney will take the opportunity to abolish the AB-level equity, and she is not willing to let Cesare pay a higher opportunity cost because of her idealistic persistence. In any case, at the time, their time was short Very limited, marriage is indeed the rudest and most beneficial way, and she didn't want Cesare to receive the answer of 'no' the first time he spoke to her.
Get married when you get married. Regarding the prenuptial agreement and some details after marriage, she also actively cooperates with Cesare and provides her own opinions, including foreshadowing before marriage, the duration of marriage, and during the marriage. Some agreements in life have been fully communicated beforehand. After marriage, they will buy a Chris-style manor, each with an independent suite in the manor, and their private life will not be greatly affected. Some emotional lives can also cover each other, basically like having an extra roommate, and the fact that she doesn't want to live by herself can also be resolved well...
Although she told herself again and again that this marriage had almost no effect on her, and nothing would change except for such a passage in the paperwork, Jenny still harbored a faint rejection of this idea in her heart. Now, when Cesare offered to annul this agreement, to say that she did not feel relieved would be lying, people are selfish, this is indeed an instinctive reaction.
However, this does not mean that she will not wait to agree to Cesare's proposal, whether as Cesare's student, his partner or his - entrepreneurial partner, his friend, Jeanne has too much. What a reason to hesitate. On the one hand, she had some doubts about Cesare's motives. Could this be his test to see if she could face the troubles with him instead of fleeing before the storm, leaving him to face IRS investigation and investigation? CAA's possible follow-up lawsuit, if Cesare decides that she is not worth relying on, will he be disappointed in her? Is he planning to leave Dameng? He is the actual operator of the big dream. Of course, he will not worry about where to go after leaving the big dream. Even if this is not mentioned, his private wealth is enough for him to live a life without work and without worry...
On the other hand, she couldn't help asking herself repeatedly, would she really not feel ashamed to accept Cesare's proposal like this? Cesare was invited by her to join the Dream. Although he had a long period of consideration before, once he made this decision, his work attitude is obvious to all. Even now, he also acts in the interest of the company. The first priority—his proposal is undoubtedly to remove Dameng and her from the shareholding matter. If this crisis breaks out, she will not be affected, and the company will bear less joint and several liabilities. Generally speaking, there will be a lot more room for maneuvering. The only price is that the risk he has to take will be much larger. Once the crisis breaks out, his career will be greatly affected. If you want to go to other companies to develop, you will encounter many obstacles... Although Cesare has many problems, he has one of the biggest advantages: at critical moments, his attitude will never pick out any problems, you will know very clearly, When the storm comes, you can seek shelter under his umbrella.
As for her, although she also said that she would share the burden with him, she seems to have been in a sheltered position so far. Powerful, he doesn't need other people's help, but in terms of facts, if you only look at the results, on the scoreboard of the two of them, Cesare has recorded an astronomical figure by relying on his silent commitment to official affairs over the past few years, while her The score is still an embarrassing 0...
Jenny sighed from the bottom of her heart. She stared at Cesare, wondering whether he was calculating the follow-up thoughts of canceling the engagement. At the same time, she took a deep breath and broke the harmonious silence in the room.
"If we're paying for the mistakes we made in the early days, it's the mistakes we made together," she said, forcing a smile into Cesare's gaze, feeling the goosebumps along her clothes Lumpy's arms slide and it feels like a person who is afraid of heights is going to bungee jump, she's forcing herself to do something she doesn't want to do, something she's terrified of, and her body faithfully responds to it. "Now we should also solve it together. This is the best way - Jim and I can cover up your management traces. The matter of equity should be settled by marriage, once and for all..."
This is a well-thought-out cover. Cesare has always been cautious in these matters. He has never washed the dividends deposited by offshore companies back to China, which shows his style. Therefore, although here They didn't know that someone would really make a fuss about this before, but in order to guard against the all-pervasive reporters and the possibility of marriage exposure (high possibility), they still meticulously prepared for competitors to use 'Cesare' Before leaving the company, he has a high status in Daemeng', which is a solution to the media's airing. Therefore, the news that they might get married by the County Prosecutor's Office didn't make Jenny really flustered. It is almost impossible to hide from the paparazzi for long.
The only omission is that the opponent hidden in the dark is so powerful that they can move the irs to be the vanguard. However, at this point, they are not without precautions. There is no big problem, the box office of "Monroe" can also give them a little advantage...
Jenny said while thinking, "As for the accounting part, we can be more careful now, and we don't need to use your domestic cash. We will pay dividends once in half a year, and there will be enough cash in the overseas company's account to buy Stocks, after changing the owner, this part of the money belongs to me completely, and irs can’t find anything wrong, so they can only attack me for using offshore companies to avoid taxes, but this will not be a big problem.”
Cesare did not speak, but his expression showed that he was listening. Jenny glanced at him, and continued in an unquestionable tone, "For the media, don't give them a chance to hint or break the news. Let's put this position first. Take it down, people will always prefer gossip to conspiracy theories - and the masses have an imprint effect, once they accept our story first, the conspiracy theory will lose its market. Why do you always go to the big dream, because You dated me there, why do you 'occasionally' personally intervene in the day-to-day management of the big dream, because that is what I ordered, because you are the person I trust most--the plan must be slightly revised, this time we will not And then resign yourself to fate with the idea of letting all this be low-key—"
Speaking of this, she paused for a moment, sighed one last time in her heart, suppressed an inexplicable trembling desire, forced herself to show a confident smile, and stretched out a hand to Cesare. hand, and jokingly said, "Would you like to talk to me about a passionate, affectionate, sensual, dramatic love affair that will make the paparazzi take pictures? Cesare Vigeri, would you—" Marry me?"