The Daily Wire<\/em> \u2014 but was pleased by the settlement Freedman clinched. \u201cHe\u2019s the kind of person you need if you\u2019re David fighting Goliath,\u201d she says. \u201cLittle me versus Disney? He\u2019s the defender of what\u2019s right. He fought for me when I didn\u2019t even think I was worthwhile. He made me feel fearless when I was at my most vulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nFreedman, the divisive Hollywood attorney who\u2019s referred to himself as a \u201cpit bull\u201d and is known for a rabidity and ruthlessness that can make even his fellow ferocious practitioners marvel in astonishment, has ascended as a powerhouse in recent years, becoming the go-to for alpha dogs who see themselves as the underdogs in a crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He represented Kevin Spacey after the actor was accused of sexual assault and FKA Twigs when she alleged Shia LaBeouf abused her. Tucker Carlson, Chris Cuomo, Megyn Kelly and Don Lemon hired him when they were unceremoniously ousted from their networks. Dr. Dre\u2019s ex-wife worked with him to get the music mogul to cough up spousal support. Freedman\u2019s also been behind Gabrielle Union\u2019s toxic workplace claim with America\u2019s Got Talent<\/em>, Jamie Lynn Spears in her war of words with sister Britney, and defended Diplo when the musician was accused of distributing revenge porn. Lately, he\u2019s been a force in the \u201creality reckoning,\u201d pushing a series of labor claims and putting Comcast and Bravo on the defensive as he publicly calls for network mascot Andy Cohen\u2019s head.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAfter a long career progressing from the margins of entertainment litigation, the brighter spotlight has led to the resurfacing of a troubling legal allegation from Freedman\u2019s past while he also defends his hardball tactics in and out of the courtroom. \u201cIf you fuck with my client, you get what you get,\u201d he tells The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> at his Century City office during an afternoon off from an ongoing trial in Santa Monica against Mattel; he\u2019s suing on behalf of a production company that claims the conglomerate stole its idea for the show The Toy Box<\/em>, which aired on ABC in 2017. <\/p>\n\n\n\nFreedman\u2019s reputation is comically menacing. On this June afternoon, across a wide conference room table, he\u2019s mostly docile, on his best behavior with a PR rep by his side. But flashes of pugnaciousness can\u2019t help but shine through. \u201cIf it serves my client\u2019s purpose to be a zealous advocate, which I believe most of the time it does, then I will be a zealous advocate.\u201d (Freedman also replied to questions about some legal matters in writing.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His relentless go-for-the-jugular MO \u2014 in the press, via depositions, through court filings, during private dispute resolution \u2014 is, to his mind, rooted in hyper-competitiveness, along with childhood pain. \u201cI have had a protective streak in me ever since I was a kid, where I really just wanted to help and protect people,\u201d he explains. Asked more about it, he says, \u201cThere\u2019s things I\u2019d rather, while my mother\u2019s alive, not get into, but everybody did the best they could with what they had. My sister killed herself a year ago. People have trauma. And so, I am a protector of people and try to do it in every way possible within the bounds of the law, hopefully thinking both inside and outside the box.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Freedman, 59, whose family moved around the country a lot while he was growing up (his father was a pathologist who worked for a series of hospitals in different states), has been sober for 23 years. He now hosts recovery meetings at the $5.5 million Pacific Palisades home he\u2019s lived in since the early 2000s and where he raised his kids with Denise, his wife of three decades. AA has informed the way he views the law, making him \u201cthink there is an opportunity for growth in every situation, whether it\u2019s my client or someone else\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Carlson had Freedman handle his 2023 exit from Fox News shortly after the network paid $787 million to settle a defamation suit brought by Dominion Voting Systems against the network. \u201cEvery time I read about Bryan, it\u2019s like, \u2018When are they letting him out of the cage?\u2019\u202f\u201d Carlson jokes. \u201cHe\u2019s chewing on his own paw.\u201d But he observes that persona may obscure another canine-like quality beloved by clients \u2014 loyalty: \u201cIf he takes you on, he\u2019s not secretly working with the other side.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLike me, he\u2019s sober,\u201d Carlson says, \u201cand I think that\u2019s really a central part of his personality. It\u2019s instantly recognizable to me, that he\u2019s one of these people \u2014 and you cheapen it by describing it \u2014 but it\u2019s his duty to help.\u201d He recalls how Freedman encouraged him to reach out to Cuomo and Lemon when they, too, found themselves \u201cat the bottom of the dogpile.\u201d \u201cAnd I did \u2014 even though I didn\u2019t like them!\u201d He pauses. \u201cIt speaks to his decency.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cuomo, another broadcaster who was abruptly terminated from his network \u2014 CNN discovered he had aided his brother, then New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, amid a sexual harassment scandal \u2014 offers this about their mutual counselor: \u201cWhen Freedman believes that he has a client who\u2019s been wronged, it\u2019s not just about relative equities,\u201d adding, \u201cThe media business is uglier than most things, and in a very ugly world, he has a very uncommon sense of honor. There\u2019s something beautiful about that. That\u2019s what makes him stand out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For many years, Freedman was a middle-of-the-pack player in the Hollywood legal world, which he entered decades ago. This followed an early stint at a stodgy firm doing commercial litigation after graduating from a lower-ranked law school. (His goal at the start of his career: \u201cpay-back-your-
student-loan law.\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At a practice he established with Michael Taitelman, a college buddy who specializes in real estate transactions \u2014 the firm has since expanded to 26 employees, including 15 lawyers \u2014 he handled workaday matters for the likes of gossip columnist Perez Hilton, production company Benderspink and, for years his main calling card, the talent agency UTA. His first claim to legal fame was winning a settlement in a defamation case against Courtney Love in 2011 when she went on a Twitter rant against his client, a boudoir-focused fashion designer named Dawn Simorangkir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then came a big break. In 2018, his client UTA recommended Freedman to Kelly, herself an ex-lawyer, for her acrimonious separation from NBC News after she\u2019d made comments defending blackface. (The agency briefly held discussions about signing her after she\u2019d fired CAA in the midst of the scandal.) \u201cI was dealing with some dirty dogs,\u201d she says, \u201cand Bryan knew how to handle it. He wasn\u2019t intimidated by their tactics or threats nor their constant leaks in the media.\u201d After Kelly reportedly exited with her full $69 million contract intact, Freedman zoomed to the top of the industry\u2019s crisis call sheet. In the years since, he\u2019s repped Vin Diesel after the actor was accused of sexual assault by an assistant, The<\/em> Bachelor<\/em> host Chris Harrison during his departure from the show, Vanna White in her Wheel of Fortune<\/em>salary dispute and Quentin Tarantino in a fight with Miramax over Pulp Fiction<\/em>NFTs. (Freedman has previously also done work for THR<\/em>\u2019s parent company, Penske Media Corporation, as outside counsel \u2014 he says he ended the relationship so he could be a conflict-free voice for his Hollywood clients if they \u201cwanted to go after\u201d PMC \u2014 and unsuccessfully sued Los Angeles <\/em>magazine when it was run by Maer Roshan, now THR<\/em>\u2019s co-editor-in-chief.)<\/p>\n\n\n\nIn fact, Freedman\u2019s willingness to be the intimidator is a large part of his appeal among clients. He\u2019s frequently compared to industry litigator Marty Singer, arguably Hollywood\u2019s most mythologized living practitioner of performative aggression. However, those who know the two best say Freedman can be nastier. \u201cBryan is mean<\/em>,\u201d explains an attorney who admires and has worked with both. \u201cMarty is loud and abrasive. But Bryan can be cruel. It\u2019s worse when he\u2019s an adversary.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nBrian W. Foster, a former producer and host of the popular Dungeons & Dragons web series Critical Role<\/em>, learned what it\u2019s like to go up against Freedman during his 2023 separation from his former fianc\u00e9e, actress Ashley Johnson. Freedman filed a suit that was reported in the press in which Johnson and six other female plaintiffs \u2014 including Johnson\u2019s sister \u2014 alleged sexual or physical misconduct by Foster, all of which he\u2019s vigorously disputed or denied. <\/p>\n\n\n\nObserves Foster: \u201cIs Bryan Freedman effective? Yes. My life is proof. He\u2019s a shakedown guy. That blitz? He\u2019s destroyed my life and my family\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Freedman, who no longer represents the women, rejects this. \u201cFoster need only look in the mirror to assign blame,\u201d he says. \u201cAny other interpretation is victim shaming and an attempt to further harass his accusers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Wolf of Wall Street<\/em> inspiration Jordan Belfort, who hired Freedman to sue the movie\u2019s producers for purported fraud, says that Freedman\u2019s theatrics serve him well. \u201cThe reputation makes people think twice,\u201d explains Belfort, whose suit was settled. \u201cIt\u2019s a big thing emotionally to people on the other side. They take it seriously.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\nYet one seasoned litigator who\u2019s had a history of dealings opposite Freedman believes that the bark can belie a lack of bite. \u201cHe knows how to create hype, which instills fear [in the other party], but there\u2019s not a lot of substance \u2014 taking what, when you look into it, are small [grievances] and turning them into something untrue,\u201d says this lawyer. \u201cThe business plan is about setting out narratives that are perceived as difficult by studios and production companies that don\u2019t want negative press [in order] to secure settlements.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For his part, Freedman\u2019s response to such critiques ranges from dismissive (\u201csounds like they lost\u201d) to earnest explications of his work as that of a mere servant, a vessel for his clients\u2019 wishes. \u201cI will morph into the need that my client needs,\u201d he says. Still, it may be revealing that during a brief interlude about his passion for basketball \u2014 of his three sons, all in their 20s, one was a college phenom and another plays professionally in China \u2014 Freedman says that during his own high school playing days he \u201cnever was afraid to take the shot\u201d but \u201cwas a better trash talker than probably a player.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Entertainment attorneys like Freedman almost always prefer to resolve conflicts through arbitration or mediation. Yet some critics point to the fact that he has scant record of victory in the most transparent and unforgiving forum, civil court, as proof that the core of his advocacy claims often don\u2019t hold up. \u201cBryan Freedman isn\u2019t considered a trial lawyer by my peers,\u201d says Sanford Michelman, who represents Foster as well as axed MediaLink head Michael Kassan in a dispute against Freedman client UTA, which fired Kassan. (The case recently entered arbitration.) \u201cIn my experience with him, he is all hyperbole and no substance. We don\u2019t take him seriously.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
His satisfied star clients, though, share a different view. They see their lawyer as a fearless warrior and a wise tactician. \u201cI absolutely adore him and would defend him to the end,\u201d says Kelly. \u201cHe\u2019s honest and has integrity and is brilliant and knows how to fight. He\u2019s tireless. Once he\u2019s on board for you, he\u2019ll kill for you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Former Grammys CEO Deb Dugan (like Kelly, once a practicing lawyer) utilized Freedman to pursue a discrimination charge against the Recording Academy after she\u2019d been fired amid alleged misconduct claims. \u201cLike a perfumer has a nose for fragrance, he has a nose for foul play, especially when it comes to complex organizations where it\u2019s hard to understand the inside,\u201d she says. \u201cHe has a high sense of justice and operates with obvious intellect \u2014 but also a strong EQ.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Freedman\u2019s supporters describe a compassion that fuels his drive. \u201cWe did phone calls where he would just listen to me cry about my experience,\u201d explains FKA Twigs, who employed Freedman to sue Shia LaBeouf for physical and sexual assault. (LaBeouf has since publicly apologized.) \u201cHe was the first person who didn\u2019t interrupt me, who remembered everything. He supported my position when I was made to have no position in this industry. Bryan made me feel like I was brave, even through my tears. The woman I was then, I was broken, and he saw a strength in me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This tenderness, allies say, is lost in the caricature of Freedman \u2014 often bolstered by the attorney himself \u2014 as a cold-blooded legal terminator. \u201cHe\u2019s where he is because of what people see, which is his advocacy, and also what they don\u2019t, which is a warmth and emotion and humanity underneath,\u201d says Mark Geragos, another high-profile litigator fond of rhetorical flourishes and campaigns waged in the media. The pair, who have known each other for years, have increasingly teamed on headline-generating cases, including advocating for Hunter Biden against Fox News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In August 2023, a besuited Freedman appeared on TMZ Live<\/em>. He and the equally controversial Geragos were doing the media rounds alleging systemic exploitation by Bravo and parent company NBCUniversal on behalf of current and former cast and crewmembers, including Bethenny Frankel and Brandi Glanville, on some of the network\u2019s lucrative reality shows. Their crusading work has rocked the network and become pop culture grist, prompting SAG-AFTRA to issue a statement of support (\u201cWe stand ready to assist Bethenny Frankel, Bryan Freedman and Mark Geragos\u201d), putting Bravo on-air ringmaster Andy Cohen on the defensive against unionizing reality talent (\u201cYou don\u2019t go to school to be a reality star,\u201d Cohen told THR<\/em> on May\u202f8) and seeing a stream of new business from high-profile unscripted figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\nDuring the TMZ Live<\/em> hit, Freedman sought to underscore the claimed misdeeds by introducing a piece of purported evidence. This exhibit was an oversized piece of paper, ostensibly a binding agreement, with the header \u201cSlave Contract.\u201d The lawyer explained of the prop he held to the camera: \u201cThis is so bad, this is something I was provided with,\u201d adding, \u201cit says \u2018slave contract,\u2019 an actual slave contract. Like, you\u2019re going to be able to have someone sign a slave contract?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nHarvey Levin, TMZ\u2019s seen-it-all tabloid chief, responded with brows furrowed: \u201cThat\u2019s an actual contract for a show?\u201d Freedman \u2014 arms crossed, hair slicked back, palm trees framed in the window behind him \u2014 underscored, \u201cThat\u2019s an actual contract between two people that allows filming and allows other things to happen and to be placed on a show.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yet in April, legal counsel opposing Freedman in a separate case contended the \u201cslave contract\u201d he waved around on TMZ was, as it happened, a document pertaining to a totally different legal dispute in which they were engaged, and that allegedly involved an actual BDSM relationship. They explained in a filing that the contract was \u201ca sexual prop downloaded from the Internet and drafted mostly by\u201d Freedman\u2019s own client, who\u2019d accused their litigant, a San Francisco CEO named Christian Lanng, of abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lanng, who\u2019s since lost his job at the fintech platform Tradeshift, an enterprise that had been valued at $2.7 billion in a 2021 fundraising round, has named Freedman and his firm in a defamation and extortion action. \u201cI\u2019ve worked with a lot of attorneys over my decades as an entrepreneur, and even in the most high-stakes or contentious negotiations, I\u2019ve never seen anything resembling my interactions with Bryan Freedman,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lanng adds, \u201cFreedman turned a settlement negotiation into a media circus. His actions got in the way of resolving grievances and protecting the financial position of investors, employees and other stakeholders of my company.\u201d His attorney Christopher Frost believes that the TMZ incident was part of \u201can abuse of an attorney\u2019s power.\u201d NBCUniversal didn\u2019t comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While Freedman declined to explain how or why the contract from the Lanng case ended up as a stunt in the wrong case on TMZ Live<\/em>, citing \u201cactive litigation,\u201d he dismissed the matter as \u201cnonsensical.\u201d (In court, he has offered a contorted legal rationale for its appearance.)<\/p>\n\n\n\nLanng\u2019s legal complaint against Freedman also alleges he and his firm \u201chired third parties to create deepfake stories\u201d about him by developing sham websites and fake social media accounts \u201cin an attempt to leverage a higher settlement.\u201d In court, Freedman has denied the allegation, and he tells THR<\/em> it \u201csounds like a spy novel about the CIA.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nFreedman has represented both those accused of sexual harassment and assault as well as survivors. One of his current docket dramas, alongside Geragos, is the legal consequence of the internet-shaking \u201cScandoval.\u201d The lawyers are representing Vanderpump Rules<\/em> castmember Rachel Leviss in her revenge porn lawsuit against former co-star and lover Tom Sandoval. <\/p>\n\n\n\nAnother ongoing dispute has brought Freedman himself briefly into the crosshairs. In March 2023, attorney Jeremiah Reynolds brought a motion for monetary sanctions against Freedman. He alleged Freedman filed a frivolous sexual assault claim and leaked it to favored media outlets to gain unfair advantage in a home renovation dispute between a couple Reynolds represented, director Sacha Gervasi (The Terminal<\/em>, Hitchcock<\/em>) and his wife, the heiress Jessica de Rothschild, and Freedman\u2019s own client, the interior designer Diana Lands Nathanson, who was previously married to Freedman\u2019s best friend, the former MGM head Michael Nathanson. Reynolds asserted that the allegedly false claim had impacted Gervasi\u2019s career. The motion against Freedman was denied. Freedman: \u201cDoesn\u2019t that unequivocally establish that the [sexual assault] claim was not frivolous at all?\u201d A trial is scheduled for 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\nFreedman shrugs off the notion that he makes untoward use of what he refers to as \u201cthe media strategy,\u201d at least compared to his peers. He insists that many cases never publicly surface because they\u2019re successfully negotiated before that phase is reached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Freedman himself has learned what it\u2019s like to be on the business end of the media strategy. In 2022, former Nickelodeon actress and #MeToo activist Alexa Nikolas publicized court records of a sexual assault case that Freedman had settled for $40,000, without admitting liability, three decades earlier. (He was representing Nikolas\u2019 ex-husband in then-ongoing litigation over abuse claims.) The documentation, reviewed by THR<\/em>, details how the plaintiff \u2014 who first sued in 1986 \u2014 became drunk at a UC Berkeley party and met undergraduate Freedman and his frat brothers, who led her to their fraternity house where, she alleged, they sexually assaulted her in rapid succession. She was 17 years old at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe plaintiff testified in a deposition about what she termed the \u201cgang bang.\u201d Afterward, she noted, \u201cI had trouble seeing, because my eyes were filled up with tears.\u201d The plaintiff also shared that she\u2019d since been plagued by persistent nightmares in which Freedman was after her. \u201cI was being chased, and I was hiding from him,\u201d she said. The situation was reported on at the time by UC Berkeley\u2019s student newspaper. Freedman later resigned as an officer of the campus student association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After Nikolas resurfaced Freedman\u2019s settlement, her activist group Eat Predators protested in front of his Century City office tower. Later in 2022, press outlets including Rolling Stone<\/em> and Business Insider <\/em>detailed the case, highlighting the attorney\u2019s high-profile work on both sides of the #MeToo movement, from Kevin Spacey to FKA Twigs. For his part, Freedman remained mum.<\/p>\n\n\n\nLachlan Cartwrigh<\/em>t contributed reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nThis story first appeared in the June 12 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Click here to subscribe<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When pissed-off power players from Megyn Kelly and Bethenny Frankel to Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon need a warrior to fight their nastiest legal battles, Bryan Freedman is the first person they call: “If you f*** with my client, you get what you get!” In 2021, ESPN broadcaster Sage Steele was suspended following comments she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,100,282,1655,118,128,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bryan-j-freedman","category-entertainment","category-headlines","category-home-hero","category-music","category-the-hollywood-reporter","category-tv_film"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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