The Bauer story is a weird one. If you read all the texts between the two, she was apparently into BDSM, as was Bauer. He was stupid to ever go through with it, but it seemed to be mutual from the texts, but he may have gone overboard. Later, she argued that it wasn’t mutual at all, even though the texts show otherwise. There seemed to be some other motive for her to go after him in my opinion, but she dropped the lawsuit after a picture was provided showing her with no bruises on her face and laying in bed with Bauer smiling a day after the incident allegedly took place. She didn’t receive any money from Bauer due to dropping her lawsuit against him; however, she still received $300K from her insurance company. Also, if you research the legality of BDSM encounters, it is apparently one massive legal grey area.