Ex-Superstar Agent At Pellicano Trial: Mike Ovitz!
April 10th, 2008By John Nazarian, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved
LOS ANGELES, April 10–It’s 8:50 a.m. and guess who walks into the Anthony Pellicano federal wiretapping trial… Hollywood Superagent Michael Ovitz, nicely dressed and with two lawyers,”Suits!”
He is well spoken, but does the “my lawyers took care of it” routine.
On Thursday, lucky Anthony Pellicano had 28 charges against him and a co-defendant dropped, but he’s still facing more than 35 other counts dropped by prosecutors, and Hollywood superstar clients like Ovitz keep the revolving star door spinning at the courthouse, all of them rather dismayed the guy they hired to snoop on others recorded their conversations, too.
Ovitz was the founder of Creative Artist Agency and after 21 years moved to work at Disney in October 1995. The big move would cost Disney millions as things did not work out, and they paid Ovitz to leave…and leave he did with the bank he towed behind his car! Read the rest of this entry »
