Summary of Today's ADOR vs Danielle Trial:
- Judge instantly warns ADOR to stop presenting for the media and present for court instead.
- ADOR presented no new 'evidence' on Danielle and jumped to Min Hee-jin tampering claims (using recycled claims they used in a case they lost to her recently on the same judge)
- ADOR's completed 'evidence' on Danielle seems to be ELLE, Emotional Oranges & OMEGA
- Judge warns ADOR to stop treating Danielle and her mother as the same person.
- ADOR failed to contact companies they allege Danielle signed with, judge orders emails to be sent from court immediately.
- ADOR drops a crazy statement on NewJeans:
"You left on your own, came back after the court ruled against you, now you're saying 'but you told us to come back and promise to forgive the past. That's the attitude of someone who's in the wrong"
- Danielle's Legal Team argues NewJeans collapsed in 2025 and 2026 with No Min Hee-jin & Danielle, revenue is much lower for damages calculations therefore NewJeans' peak revenue in 2024 can't be taken into consideration for 2026-2029
- Judge agrees with the idea that Min Hee-jin's NewJeans and the current NewJeans isn't the same, questions whether companies would keep working with ADOR.
- Judge tells ADOR to ask witnesses for written statements because their questions are subjective and can be taken out of context easily
- ADOR asks for 2-3 months for expert opinion, judge gives 1 week.
Minji (240629 Phoning chat):
All the staff from ADOR (almost everyone actually came for the Tokyo Dome fan meeting) were waiting for us there... Tears welled up…. Everyone worked so hard… and even if we don’t say it much, we all supported each other so much. ㅠ I really cried then… But on stage, I just got choked up, haha. There must be some behind-the-scenes footage… Sigh... I should have held back, haha.
Korea's Fair Trade Commission has launched an investigation into HYBE and ADOR on suspicion of abuse of market dominance and unfair trade practices.
Danielle's Lawyers accused HYBE of using their position to 'punish' her in the industry and warn other artists if they dont 'obey'
Q. What does Danielle truly want?
Atty. Jeong Jong-chae:
It may be nothing more than a hope like the coming spring, but Danielle simply wants to stand once again as a complete NewJeans together with Minji, Hanni, Haerin, and Hyein, singing and dancing before Bunnies and fans just as they used to.
Even if that dream is realistically impossible, it is still the dream Danielle holds.
If what HYBE truly wanted were compensation for damages, it would not spend years pursuing lawsuits seeking contractual penalties that would leave Danielle penniless after prolonged litigation and, because of ADOR’s actions, unable ever to work in the K-pop industry again—making recovery impossible even if it won.
A far more financially rational choice would be to allow Danielle to return to NewJeans, promote again as a complete group, and offset any damages against the settlement payments she would receive through those activities.
The fact that the HYBE Group chose instead to pursue litigation seeking astronomical contractual penalties that offer no meaningful economic benefit even if successful cannot reasonably be explained except as an attempt to use Danielle as a test case, send a warning signal to artists, and thereby strengthen its control over them.
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