According to Billboard, FKA twigs filed to drop her lawsuit against Shia LaBeouf on Tuesday after his side agreed to void the NDA that was the entire reason the lawsuit existed.
The whole machine, in one motion. In March she sued because the NDA from the 2025 settlement violated California's STAND Act, the law that says gag orders cannot cover up sexual assault claims. She called its enforcement a "campaign of intimidation." Six months later the NDA is "terminated and void," the suit "achieved its purpose," and the case is over. Nobody admitted anything. Nobody conceded anything. The document she sued over just quietly got deleted, and the lawsuit evaporated on top of it.
The press framing finished the job. Her attorney Mathew Rosengart called it "an important victory for the principle that women who speak out about sexual abuse should not be silenced by NDAs," a line inside a court filing that reads like a press release with a judge's permission slip. His attorney did not respond to a request for comment, which is his side's only statement of the day and it is doing the work of three.
The saga is the NDA as a subscription service. You file it in the settlement, you enforce it in arbitration over one press statement, you void it when it gets expensive, you call the silence a win. The STAND Act did the actual work, and it gets one paragraph.
YOUR TURN: When the thing you sued over gets deleted, is that a victory or just the cheapest way to lose?
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