{"id":127871,"date":"2025-08-08T02:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T02:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/127871\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T02:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T02:06:10","slug":"gina-carano-thanks-elon-musk-for-funding-disney-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/127871\/","title":{"rendered":"Gina Carano Thanks Elon Musk for Funding Disney Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gina Carano thanked her financial backer Elon Musk after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/gina-carano-disney-lucasfilm-lawsuit-settlement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reaching an agreement<\/a> with Disney and Lucasfilm for her sex discrimination and wrongful termination suit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to extend my deepest most heartfelt gratitude to Elon Musk,<br \/>a man I\u2019ve never met, who did this Good Samaritan deed for me in funding my lawsuit,\u201d she wrote in an X post on Thursday. \u201cThank you Mr. Musk and @X for backing my case and asking for nothing in return.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/join-pro\/?utm_source=article&amp;utm_medium=site&amp;utm_campaign=articlePROpromo&amp;utm_id=070825\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754618769_291_Free-Trial-General-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7794376\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Carano filed the suit against Lucasfilm and Disney in February 2024, three years after she was fired from \u201cThe Mandalorian\u201d after a slew of controversial social media posts.<\/p>\n<p>She was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/gina-carano-disney-lawsuit-mandalorian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fired<\/a> from the Star Wars series in February 2021, after she amplified a social media post that compared being Republican in the U.S. to being Jewish during Nazi Germany. This came after months of increasingly combative social media posts from Carano advancing far right political views that included vaccine and election denials.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a class=\"the-wrap-read-more__image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/gina-carano-disney-lucasfilm-wrongful-termination-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Gina-Carano.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Gina Carano arrives for the World Premiere of &quot;Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker&quot; in Los Angeles\"   data-portal-copyright=\"TheWrap\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Musk helped fund the UFC fighter-turned-actress with her legal fees as part of his initiative to cover costs for X users, who faced discrimination for activity on his site. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I have come to an agreement with Disney\/Lucasfilm <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Disney?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@disney<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lucasfilm?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Lucasfilm<\/a> which I believe is the best outcome for all parties involved. I hope this brings some healing to the force. <\/p>\n<p>I want to extend my deepest most heartfelt gratitude to Elon Musk, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@elonmusk<\/a> a man I\u2019ve never met,\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qiAX7W1vgf\">https:\/\/t.co\/qiAX7W1vgf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gina Carano \ud83d\udd6f (@ginacarano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ginacarano\/status\/1953575719554232400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The details of the settlement were not disclosed, but Carano said in her X post that the agreement was \u201cthe best outcome for all parties involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am excited to flip the page and move onto the next chapter,\u201d she added. \u201cMy desires remain in the arts, which is where I hope you will join me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lucasfilm said in a statement that they \u201clook forward to identifying opportunities to work together with Ms. Carano in the near future\u201d with the lawsuit behind them.<\/p>\n<p>Carano appeared in the first two seasons of \u201cThe Mandalorian,\u201d in which she played Rebel ranger Cara Dune. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a class=\"the-wrap-read-more__image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/gina-carano-disney-lucasfilm-lawsuit-settlement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Gina-Carano.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Gina Carano arrives for the World Premiere of &quot;Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker&quot; in Los Angeles\"   data-portal-copyright=\"TheWrap\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gina Carano thanked her financial backer Elon Musk after reaching an agreement with Disney and Lucasfilm for her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":127872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,66,171,78140,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-127871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-elon-musk","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-gina-carano","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114990703364884102","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}