Some statements:
1. Lawyers are expensive when you're rich. It's called value-based quoting/ pricing. If you earn millions, and your desired outcome is worth a lot, you also pay a lot. This removes hourly billing for tedious jobs like, oh, combing through the internet.

2. So all businesses have procedures in place or they consult their lawyers on steps to take instead of actually taking legal steps, i.e., making the lawyers work (again, because expensive). This includes settlements or apologies or... effective statements.

3. For example, if your reputation rides on certain rumors, your lawyer would advise you to simply deny the rumors. End of story. If there's fire to the smoke? Explain the fire. Or divert attention away from both smoke and fire. Silence is never the advice.

You notice all companies and individuals are so quick to speak up about rumors. They call press junkets. They hold interviews. This is why. Effective statements are effective.

4. That brings us to "malicious statements." Statements are easily countered with statements.

5. Official announcements of legal action are given in serious cases like a parent wants custody, a business's intellectual property is stolen, someone is evading debt, or... when an individual or organization wants to protect something.

6. You know, like when a school is protecting a teacher or student, a church protecting its minister, or an agency protecting its writer, photographer, actors and their loved ones, etc.

7. No one in their right mind would hire a law firm if the "malicious statements" and "harassment" they cite can be easily solved by effective statements in the first place.

8. This means the malicious statements and misinformation aren't something that can be fixed by effective statements addressing the rumors

9. This means:
a) The announcement of legal action is against truly malicious content rather than the harmless content considered as trappings of being a celebrity
b) The announcement of legal action is to protect against malicious content *in the near future*

10. So put that in your pipe and smoke it, as the Countess of Grantham would say.