Kassan believes that UTA reacted after he resigned in March. The agency claims he wasted millions on a “lavish personal lifestyle.”
A pair of reputation-damaging lawsuits between UTA and its star rainmaker Michael Kassan were made public this week, in an astonishing exposure of bitter rumors from a relationship that should have been a huge commercial success.
The legal volleys are harmful for both UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer, who prefers to keep his business secret, and Kassan, the smooth-talking executive who is now engaged in a nasty attack on his former friend.
“UTA’s claims are a desperate attack in response to Kassan’s resignation and subsequent lawsuit,” Kassan attorney Sanford Michelman told TheWrap. “It is not only hypocrisy, but an intentional misdirection technique by UTA to disguise that they fraudulently misled Michael into agreeing to a deal that Zimmer had no intention of. honoring his word.”
Alexei Barrionuevo is the Business Editor for TheWrap. He was previously an editor at Billboard and a staff writer for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He previously worked as a correspondent in Brazil, Belgium, and Venezuela.
