Exhibit A-List

What happens when the community you built with your own hands gets hijacked by the people you trusted to run it? Daveed Silva Ossa built one of the most influential Latino tech communities in America out of a happy hour where two people showed up. Within a few years, Uber was hosting his events and Google, Facebook, and Airbnb were partners. Then a group of volunteers quietly incorporated a nonpro...

A housekeeper is disfigured by a 200-pound guard dog and a jury says the owner owes her millions. The singing voice of a movie people still love 25 years later is about to lose her health insurance over one form nobody filed. And somewhere, a director is sleeping on $638,000 worth of mattresses he bought with money that was supposed to make a Netflix show. This week is about one quiet, brutal trut...

A man gets shoved backwards into a lit fire pit on camera. A private chef says a billionaire's household worked her through a high-risk pregnancy. A former facial client who spent years fighting for accountability finally watches the woman who scarred her hand over her license. This week is about one quiet, brutal truth: in the law, whoever files first gets to write the first draft of the stor...

Episode 42 is all about fine print: the fine print on your yogurt, the fine print in a $40 million silence agreement, the fine print of a marriage, and the fine print of a federal prison sentence. Danone, the company behind Oikos, just sued Chobani in federal court alleging its 20g Protein line is misleading consumers. The claim is not about ingredients, it is about math. Danone says Chobani infla...

First things first: the New York Knicks won their first NBA Finals game since 1973 and your born-and-bred New York host needed a moment. Mazel tov to the Knicks and MVP honors to Jalen Brunson. Now to the law. Episode 41 covers three stories all tied to the same theme: how a story gets told, who controls the edit, and what the truth is underneath it. Tyra Banks is suing Netflix for defamation over...

Episode 40 is here and every story this week is about what happens when institutions, celebrities, and corporations overestimate their ability to control the outcome. JPMorgan fired a senior wealth manager who had been there over a decade and managed nearly a billion dollars in client assets. The stated reason: a $642 deli platter submitted on an expense report for a Super Bowl client event. A FIN...

WELCOME BACK TO EXHIBIT A-LIST! What makes someone a target? In this eye-opening conversation, forensic psychologist Dr. Leslie Dobson shares what she’s learned from years of evaluating predators, conducting threat assessments, testifying in court, and working on some of the most disturbing cases imaginable. We discuss: • How predators identify potential victims • Why trusting your intuition matte...

WELCOME BACK TO EXHIBIT A-LIST, WHERE POP CULTURE GETS CROSS-EXAMINED! Episode 38 is one of the most connected episodes yet because nearly every story this week traces back to the same question: who controls the narrative, and what happens when they get caught? CNN filed a lawsuit this week against Perplexity , the AI search engine company, accusing it of scraping over seventeen thousand CNN stori...

Episode 37 is a big one. The brand behind those pastel ceramic pans you bought after hearing about them on a wellness podcast just got sued by two of the biggest cookware conglomerates in the world. Groupe SEB and Meyer Corporation, the companies behind All-Clad, T-fal, Farberware, and Rachael Ray cookware, filed a federal lawsuit against Caraway in the Southern District of New York alleging false...

Episode 36 is here and the stories this week are storying. Dua Lipa is suing Samsung for $15 million after the company put her photograph on their TV packaging without asking, without paying, and without telling her. When her team sent a cease and desist, Samsung ignored it for nearly a year. Jasmine breaks down all four legal theories in the complaint including copyright infringement, California...

Episode 35 is a big one and every story this week is about power and who gets to use it. A Dutch cruise ship is sailing toward the Canary Islands with a hantavirus outbreak that has killed three people and infected eight. But beyond the health story, there is a legal story nobody is covering. If something happens to you on a cruise ship, whether it is a virus, an injury, a crime, or a disappearanc...

Episode 34 is here and we are not slowing down. Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni settled their lawsuit two weeks before trial. No money changed hands. Both sides are claiming victory. But the motion that could result in the biggest financial hit, including treble damages and punitive damages under California Civil Code Section 47.1, is still very much alive. Jasmine breaks down what that statute ac...

Episode 28 is packed. Five stories, fully broken down legally and culturally — because headlines don't tell you what's actually happening in court. This week on Exhibit A-List, attorney Jasmine Weg breaks down the biggest celebrity legal moments of the week. Jada Pinkett Smith just pulled off one of the cleaner legal moves we've seen in a while — getting a $3 million lawsuit partially...

Four stories. One theme: power, accountability, and thefine print everyone ignores until it's too late. MrBeast's company Beast Industries was just sued by aformer executive who says she was fired three weeks after returning frommaternity leave, that female employees were routinely harassed, and that thecompany's own handbook told employees 'no does not mean no.' Attorney and h...

What happens when the fitness advice you're following online is wrong or fake? In this episode of Exhibit A-List, Jasmine Weg sits down with Gabby Barreto, a functional sports dietitian, trainer, professor, and founder, to unpack the reality behind the wellness industry and the growing gap between what looks credible online and what actually is. This conversation goes beyond surface-level fitn...

This week's docket is genuinely unhinged. A pop singer whose biggest hit is called "Romantic Homicide" was arrested on suspicion of murdering a 14-year-old girl whose body was found dismembered in the trunk of his Tesla. Live Nation and Ticketmaster just lost their antitrust trial — a jury unanimously declared them an illegal monopoly and found they overcharged consumers. A Real Hous...

Divorce is one of the most overwhelming decisions a person can face and most people have no idea where to start. In this episode of Exhibit A-List, Jasmine Weg sits down with divorce educator and Fresh Starts Registry founder Olivia Howell to break down what actually happens when a marriage ends - emotionally, financially, and legally. From the moment you start thinking about divorce to the bigges...

This week, we’re breaking down the legal stories everyone is talking about and what’s actually happening behind the headlines. Because as always, the internet has opinions… but the law has rules. 🎟️ Ticketmaster & Live Nation Internal Slack messages revealed employees calling ticket buyers “stupid” and bragging about “robbing them blind” and now those messages are evidence in a major antitrust...

The internet is spiraling over the Blake Lively vs Justin Baldoni ruling — but almost no one is explaining what actually happened legally. In this episode of Exhibit A-List , I break down: Why 10 of Blake Lively’s 13 claims were dismissed (and what people are getting wrong) The 3 claims still going to trial — including the alleged smear campaign Why Justin Baldoni being dropped individually is a m...

This week every story asked the same question: at what point does entertainment become a liability? Reality TV casting ethics, Taylor's paycheck, a $27M Lion King joke, your Instagram DMs, and the social media addiction verdict I've been waiting for. This week I was quoted in a Yahoo Entertainment piece about why networks cast messy people and then act shocked when things go left. I want t...

ABC said the video was newly surfaced. Disney owns Hulu, which aired her arrest in Episode 1. The lawyer math isn't mathing and now three separate lawsuits are brewing. Three days before Taylor Frankie Paul's season of The Bachelorette was supposed to premiere, Disney pulled the plug. They called it a response to "newly released" footage of a 2023 incident. But that incident was...

Bravo's arbitration play just failed in court. Rebel Wilson's PR team is on tape. And a death penalty case is headed to SCOTUS. Five stories. Every single one has a legal angle worth understanding. This week on Exhibit A-List, we're breaking down the Rebel Wilson smear campaign — and why the same lawyer, the same publicist, and the same digital fixer from the Blake Lively saga keep sho...

She left Big Law pregnant, burned out, and with a firm policy written about her. Here’s the full story. What does it actually cost to make it in Big Law? For Danae Richie, attorney, entrepreneur, content creator, and founder of Beyond the Numbers, the answer was her health, her creativity, and nearly her sense of self. Danae joined Exhibit A-List for her first time telling this story publicly and...

EPISODE 22 – Exhibit A-List This week on Exhibit A-List , we’re breaking down the lawsuits everyone is about to be talking about. Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce are being sued over the name of their steakhouse, and the trademark fight raises a bigger question: who actually owns a name in business? Meanwhile, Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg is back in court. During testimony, he admitted something tha...

AI Gets Banned. Tesla Owes $243M. Meta’s Insurance Just Collapsed. This week on Exhibit A-List, we’re breaking down the legal battles shaping 2026: • President Trump bans Anthropic (Claude AI) from all federal agencies after it refuses to support autonomous weapons and mass surveillance • Tesla loses a $243 million verdict in a fatal Autopilot crash case and the judge refuses to overturn it • Meta...