Chapter 213
Chapter 213
Silverlight Entertainment was established five or six years ago.
Alice had always been in charge of it, and Katherine hardly ever made an appearance.
In fact, the company employees had no idea that Katherine was the real boss behind the scenes until last year.
After the new year, Alice went into filming with the production crew and was unlikely to pay attention to Natalie's matters.
Thus, Katherine directly instructed the company's Public Relations Department to reach out to someone to anonymously release some of the dirt they have dug on Natalie.
Natalie had lost Maxton's support.
Unexpectedly, articles about her dirty deeds were exposed one after another.
Although she had rushed to find people to suppress the news, they couldn't keep up with the speed at which the scandals exploded.
Many people in their social circle were aware that Maxton had already broken off his relationship with Natalie.
Otherwise, these articles would have been removed from the trending topics within minutes, given his power and ability.
If something could not be solved with money, it could be solved with power.
If Maxton could use his connections to cover up the scandals, Natalie's nefarious acts would remain hidden.
However, since these articles came about and had yet to be suppressed, it went without saying that Maxton had kicked Natalie to the curb.
The dirt on Natalie was continuously exposed.
Her PR team was at wit's end and could only use money to stop the trending topics from spreading.
Despite all their efforts, and regardless of how much they had spent, they had not managed to suppress the release of the articles.
The other party was obviously more loaded and had the upper hand.
Natalie had barely slept these days due to this ordeal.
She knew that someone was messing with her.
When such concerns happened in the past, all Natalie had to do was find Maxton.
She did not even need to reach out to Maxton directly since a simple call to his secretary was enough to solve the issues within a few hours.
Back then, it had been almost effortless to slap people with money.
Now, however, it had not been an easy feat.
This was not the main point, though.
The crux of the matter was that they had yet to find out who was behind this plot even after all this time.
Natalie had first suspected Alice, but the people she paid to investigate had confirmed that Alice had joined a movie's filming crew.
They also mentioned that since the shoot was in the mountains, Alice might not even be aware of what had happened outside, let alone orchestrate the release of Natalie's scandals.
The truth was, Natalie had offended many people in the entertainment circle.
Other than Alice, they would not be able to pinpoint the mastermind behind this ploy.
The scandals were released one after another.
Not only Natalie but even those spectators within the entertainment industry were also terrified of the extent of the exposé.
In the entertainment circle, it was pretty easy to become the hottest star overnight.
Unfortunately, a celebrity's career could also be easily upended in a day due to scandals or negative publicity.
Natalie was famous for her pure image on-screen, but now, all the scandals about her showed the complete opposite of her usual persona.
Her most loyal fans did not find these scandals a big deal, though.
In fact, they were even resolute in protecting her.
[Smoking was fine.Who did not smoke when they were upset?]
[Drinking was acceptable.Who hadn't had a taste of alcohol?]
[If you want to say something rough, go ahead and swear.Who hadn't cursed someone?]
The fans were so forgiving that even Katherine found it funny.
She had browsed the comments and couldn't tell whether the fans were really supporting Natalie or were trying to drag her down.
The past few days, Katherine saw Natalie's PR team flying blind and grasping at straws in the hopes of clearing her name.
She found it quite amusing.She rarely went to such lengths to vent her anger.She had always been direct, hitting the enemy point-blank.
Nevertheless, this form of slow torture was quite enjoyable.
Katherine was confident that Natalie's image would be ruined even more when her scandals were slowly exposed.
Natalie's scandal had been trending for three days in a row, and then it suddenly stopped.
It seemed that no one targeted her anymore.
But just when Natalie's team thought that the other party was just trying to mess with Natalie, and just when Natalie had assumed that the other party was bluffing, a piece of more explosive news came about.
A video of a car accident was posted online, and it immediately became a top trending topic, causing the Twitter servers to almost crash down.
It was a video of a car hitting a mother and daughter, resulting in their deaths.
It was clearly seen on the video that Natalie was driving.
However, when the matter was reported three years ago, her agent's assistant ended up taking the blame.
This matter went viral when the news first came out, especially since it involved a celebrity.
Back then, Natalie's PR team made her seem like a perfectly innocent victim.
She was only implicated since she was in the same vehicle involved in the accident.
The entire burden of responsibility fell upon the assistant, who, at that time, was said to have lost control of his emotions.
After the car accident, Natalie had generously given 300,000 dollars to compensate the family members of the victims.
Because of her humanitarian act, Natalie attracted a massive following on social media.
At the time of the accident, the road was situated in a blind spot; hence, the CCTV camera didn't capture the accident. Belonging © NôvelDram/a.Org.
It had been tough finding a witness since only a few cars were driving by.
On top of that, the car passengers had given almost the same statement to the police.
The assistant was paid off 500,000 dollars to be the scapegoat.
Thus, what should have been a crime of drunk driving, had been reduced to a mere traffic accident.
Unbeknownst to them, a paparazzi had been following them that time and had captured the incident using his car's dash camera.
The paparazzi had attempted to blackmail Natalie with the dashcam footage, but Natalie had not shown up.
In the end, Maxton had found someone to destroy the evidence and threatened that if the paparazzi ever tried to blackmail Natalie again, he would suffer far more than the fate of his video recording.