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human
ELI5: When Charlie Sheen was fired why didn't the producers just sue him for not doing his job and not have to pay him ridiculous amounts of money to end his contract?
gpt
Entertainment contracts are... complicated. And Charlie and his team know how he could continue to meet the demands of his contract and get paid.  The contract probably (read: it absolutely did) have termination payments and such for various reasons and clauses for outs for both sides.

For whatever reasons, the producers decided to go the firing route, preventing him from riding out his contract and causing conflict.