Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Sunday, January 4th.

Today on Forbes, the most notable career crashes of 2025.

For over a decade, Forbes has been chronicling the year's most notable career crashes,

highlighting the entrepreneurs, CEOs, politicians, and celebrities whose professional dissents

shed light on the consequential and buzzy issues of our time. Some, like Sean P. Diddy Combs,

continued their fall from last year. The rapper and music mogul was sentenced this year to

four years in federal prison on two prostitution charges.

Education startup founder Charlie Javis, who made our 2023 list of most notable career crashes,

was sentenced to 85 months in prison over her scheme to defraud J.P. Morgan of $175 million.

Forbes compiled a list of 10 professionals who had the most rude awakenings, with an honorary

mention to America's most infamous kiss cam couple.

Here are a few names on our list from the most notable career crashes of 2025.

Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively.

Despite the movie's box office success, the It Ends with Us stars have been embroiled in a messy web of lawsuits since 2024 when the movie adaptation of the best-selling book premiered.

Lively accused Baldoni of, quote, retaliating against her for reporting sexual harassment and

workplace safety in a December 2024 suit, which he then countersued in a $400 million defamation

suit.

A judge dismissed Baldoni's case in July 2025, although discovery is still underway in Lively's

original suit.

Still, so-called Baldoni Gate, has impacted their careers on and off the screen.

Baldoni was immediately dropped by his talent agency, and his production company, Wayfarer Studios,

has not announced any new productions since his September release.

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