Ovitz Speaks

Michael Ovitz said he turned to investigator Anthony Pellicano in an effort to avoid another ambush.
Six years after unloading talent management, TV and film production entity Artists Management Group onto the Firm, the former Hollywood heavyweight found himself explaining to jurors Wednesday why he hired Pellicano to dig up info on individuals who could have hurt the sale. Ovitz was specifically frustrated by a series of negative articles about the company, penned by Anita Busch and Bernard Weinraub that appeared in the New York Times in 2002 and detailed the company’s financial troubles and talent defections. One story described Ovitz as “having lost his powerful perch in Hollywood.”

Via Variety